May 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: what happened to being a teenage rebel
by little pilgrim 04 May '01

04 May '01

ok look it's friday and you'd be thinking it's time for drinks and friends and a little light banter but here i am left with the ol' monkey on my shoulder/editor (p f you're not alone out there) and the word counter. i'm not going to mention that i'm almost ripe with ill-feeling over these picnics LET ALONE CONCERTS you kids are getting skittish about. it's not always fun living on the other side of the world. so just a quick question: does anyone suspect camera obscura is a kind of frightful pun on barthes' camera lucida? (which is a beautiful book if you're looking for one). lp _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: concert tickets in canada??
by Andrea Kittenmouse 04 May '01

04 May '01

Hi there, I'm sorry, I know this is a bit off-topic...but does anyone know how to buy tickets (website, phone number, whatever) for concerts happening in british columbia (i.e. thunderbird stadium)?? thanks, andrea http://web.pdx.edu/~andreay _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Apologies
by David Howie 03 May '01

03 May '01

Subject: Apology I reckon I owe a couple (if not three, possibly four) apologies to various people all connected with Sinister, so if youll allow me I will make them and be on my way. Humbled. The order of my apologies is in no way representative of the relative importance of the respective apologies merely a signal of which apology comes to mind first. Well, first: Danny. I guess I owe you a pretty big apology for my utterly disrespectful and unwelcoming e-mail. I guess I should point out its flaws and say sorry. 1. My introduction served merely to justify my little rant to myself by disguising it as a gentle chiding. Pah. You are totally correct in using inverted commas in your riposte; my e-mail was no more a gentle chiding than Hitlers tousmache was attractive. You are entirely correct in pointing out the subjective nature of my use of the term. And I apologise, it was a mask behind which you obviously seen. The first e-mail you sent to the list should have been welcomed with open-arms (I know I feel sad when I see peoples first posts go by unnoticed). Thats not what sinister is about; my take on it is that were a community (however, not in the Amon Duul 1 sense of the word) and that we should be civil and welcoming (but not to the point of Christianity The only thing wrong with Heaven is that its full of Christians, Atheist, 4:19). 2. My pompous declaration that your description of the 13th note was an inferior piece of description was totally arrogant and self-adulating (self-serving?) I think that it wasnt meant as totally sincere but I can see how it came across as pompous, and I guess at heart it was verbosity-as-showing-off. Sorry. Such verbal wankery I shall leave to proggers from now on. I even reckon my comments about being Sinister Junior Reporter were implicitly Ha ha, Ive been here longer than you; youll never reach my status. I feel so ashamed. Sorry. I guess I can be a little smug at times. I am sincerely sorry; and would not blame honey is she stripped me of the post as it would be deserved. 3. My comments on Camera Obscura were unjustified as well seeing that Ive only heard three of their songs; as were my comments on Baxendale (although quite why youd want to). However, I do stand by my opinion that they dont sound that much like B&S (more like Felt, High Llamas, Idlewild at their poppiest perhaps) but that is no excuse for jumping on your comments; thus, I apologise, again. Again, my comments regarding Hefner were ego-serving and arrogant. Sorry. 4. I guess I just felt threatened and when threatened Male persons (or possibly just me) tend to retreat and show their fangs. You are the first person I really know on sinister (as if anyone can really know anyone but thats a whole other discussion and probably apology); and I guess I, sorry I know, that I wanted to assert my membership upon you without appearing too much of a prat to sinister (hence the gentle chiding disclaimer). I know that those feelings were silly and irrational; and Id like to welcome you to sinister (God, I sound like a Scientologist). 5. Friends? Please? Now, I said I had some other apologies didnt I. Well, the first is to Sinister itself. I apologise for writing such a self-indulgent mail and Im sorry you had to read it. I know sinister is about Well, what is sinister about? Certainly not anything contained in my bellicose e-mail. I know saying sorry may not be good enough; but I hope that youre as forgiving as you are nice. Third apology: Honey. My handling of the whole e-mail address, although not bellicose, was dithery and dozy and transformed a two minute job into a 7 or 8 e-mail job. I guess Im just a bit slow sometimes, and if some of my e-mails appeared abrupt or irate then Im sorry. I wasnt irate but I can see how it might have come across that way; sorry Paul (and Linda). Fourthly? Mathematics? It seems I am unable to count. I guess Ive said all I can say on this subject; I apologise. Now onto the subject that were here to discuss: anything. No, only kidding. Belle & Sebastian. I too am absolutely delighted that they're releasing Middle Distance Runner (told you so, teehee). I've never heard it live but I did hear it on the tube when they played it and it does contain the best guitar fill ever, no? Do you think that Paper Boat is amazing, Danny? I think its Stuart Davids songs (for B&S) Im not sure about them (see: Winter Wooskie, Seymour Stein). Ive heard Poupee De Cire on a nasty thirtieth generation mp3 or something; but it is still pretty good. I agree Isobel is pretty damn perfect; oh, and on the song. I think its the paranoid strings (guitars?) that tend to scare people to the quick. Very Forever Changes-era Love. Anyways. Thats my fifteen minutes. Thank you, David. PS Danny if you want to talk or anything (about music, anything) just e-mail, please. PPS My new sinister reporter e-mail address (dependent upon whether I get to keep the tag) is sinreporter(a)missprint.org Report all your sins to me. :) PPPS Should I send the lyrics of Take Your and Big John Shaft to the list? Neil? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. 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Sinister: they're lyrics & lines, love
by caleb ben moore 03 May '01

03 May '01

halo sinisters: here are a few lines which i feel would add a nice touch of sublimity to any song: "with stars shine, and glossy movement your face in my mind is music" or "the rose i painted on your neck with my lips last night" or "and when i find you, i'll crumble to tears at your feet" let me know what you all think. i need CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. ttfn caleb ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Living in London
by David White 03 May '01

03 May '01

Hello there Sinisters! I have a request, which I hope will not be seen as list abuse, for anybody who lives in London or knows London. I am moving down there in a few months to work but haven't got a clue about anything, particularly when it comes to finding a place to live. What I need is advice on which areas of London are nice and which are, to put it politely, best avoided. I will be working at Canary Wharf and don't want to spend more than an hour each way travelling to work. If anybody can give me any advice on nice areas to live I'd be very grateful (email me off list please). On the subject of London, it seems to me that the place is crazy: terrorists, crusties, riot police and marathon runners to name a few things that I've noticed on telly recently. It may of course be that I've just noticed all this cos I know that I'm going to be living there soon and that they've always been there. Alisdair Cook said: Stuart sings about Edinburgh in "I Could Be Dreaming": "I took a walk up Castlehill". Which I think might actually be about a place in Ayrshire. Don't quote me on that, though. Well, you can if you want. Which brought back childhood memories. If I remember right Stuart is from Alloway, which is near Ayr, and I vaguely remember from my younger days that there is an area in Ayr called Castlehill which is within walking distance of Alloway, hence the lyric. I could be wrong of course! That's taken about 15 minutes so I'll get my coat. David White david(a)belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk Visit www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk or join the mailing list to get regular news and site updates by emailing: belleandsebastian-subscribe(a)listbot.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Better York Picnic Details!
by mummy i've grazed my knee 02 May '01

02 May '01

It has been pointed out to me that my directions were less than clear and so it would be a shock if anyone turned up at all. Well, the clearest that I can make it is this: The picnic will be at 2pm on the field opposite Derwent College at the University Of York We will meet on the field because the bus stop is right next to it. If you can find Derwent College, you've found the picnic because the field is just on the other side of the road to the College entrance. The numbers 4 and 5 buses are inhabited only by university students, so if you are not sure, just ask one of them which stop is next to Derwent College and they will happily tell you because they are all nice. If you are coming by car, there is parking. Directions for this are harder, so just mail me or give me a call for details. I know i made it sound mighty complicated first time round but it isn't! Just get on the 4 or 5 bus from the station and get off at Derwent College. It's about a 5 minute journey. Just ask someone on the bus where to get off. Hope this is more use! Chris Jones. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Spare some lyrics?
by Simon Aurell 02 May '01

02 May '01

Hello I write songs. I try to convince people around me into writing lyrics which I can make songs of, though I hardly ever manage to persuade anyone. So I got the brilliant idea to ask you lot... Does anyone have some unused lyrics or poems that suitable for making a song out of? I think the result could be quite interesting. Simon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Stick it up your arse and pretend it Christmas
by Linda Kerr 02 May '01

02 May '01

Hullo Here is the article about Isobel from Caledonia magazine. It has a fairly limited circulation, so most of you won't have had even the chance to see it. It is a bit of an in-flight magazine, but (Scotland's most eligible men, the state of Scottich music - pipers, and something on whisky. The article itself isn't incredibly enlightening, but there are a few good moments... And there is nothing mentioned about the tour or new release - don't know when the interview was done. Words by Alastair Mabbott "Why be in one band when you can be in two? For Isobel Campbell, Belle and Sebastian was not enough - so she formed The Gentle Waves. The song drifting over the tables of Edinburgh's Elephant House cafe stops my conversation with Isobel Campbell dead in its tracks. It's a song neither of us can place, from a sixties tape being played behind the counter. "Who is that? Who is that?" she frown. "Weird," I say. But we both dance around the issue, neither of us saying exactly what's on our minds. The nylon guitar, the plaintive male voice, the bittersweet flavour of the song - this old recording is a dead ringer for Campbell's own, very current, band, Belle and Sebastian. Actually, since 1999, she's qualified for a bumper sticker reading "My OTHER band is Belle and Sebastian". The group's loose format - demonstrated by their taking a year off from playing live in 2000 - has allowed members to work on their own side projects. Bassist Stuart David established his own band, Looper, and became a novelist. Campbell struck off on her own with The Gentle Waves, of which she is singer, songwriter, guitarist, occasional cellist and only permanent member. Less than an hour has passed since the Caledonian photos shoot, and her features are still skilfully coloured and exquisitely defined. It's quite a contrast to the kind of publicity photos she's normally associated with: stark, curious black-and-white shots which rarely featured members of the actual band. Many Belle and Sebastian fans would be surprised to find her in a photographer's studio in the first place, let alone chortling "ooh-er, missus" over a piece of equipment known as the "ring flash". Simply by not playing the publicity game , and insisting that the music takes precedence, the group's members have acquired a reputation for being austere, introverted and enigmatic, which says more about the business they are in than about the band itself. And if Campbell's any indication, the image couldn't be further from the truth. Bright, animated, she roots around in a suitcase full of sixties-style gear in which she feels most comfortable. Yet, while clearly enjoying the dressing-up, and the attention of a stylist, she's laid down ground rules - as nicely as possible - about how she's to be presented. Simplicity and honesty are the watchword in Campbell's world. The debut Gentle Waves album The Green Fields of Foreverland..., is awash with naive melodies and imagery that could have come straight from children's books. Twee and saccharine to its detractors, its marriage of Campbell's classical training and her love for French pop resulted in some beguiling songs. She calls it her "baby album". But far better was to come. Last year's follow-up, Swansong for You, marked a leap forwards in confidence, scope and maturity without any loss of her characteristic directness. The more recent Falling From Grace EP showed her to be finessing her pastoral style and starting what looks to be a long-term collaboration with Bill Wells, a jazz pianist who has forged bonds with Glasgow's indie fraternity. "I think I've got quite a good intent, really," she says, polishing off a bowl of minestrone soup. "I'm quite cynical a lot of the time, but I think a lot of people are really cynical and blase about a lot of things. Sometimes, for instance, TV and advertising portray people as being a lot less sincere and less caring than they are, and a bit more tongue-in-cheek. I think a lot of pop bands are like "everything is disposable now, even people are disposable" I just think I have got quite a determination for the positive things." Born 24 years ago in Glasgow's Southern General Hospital, Isobel Campbell showed signs of musical talent when she tinkering on a piano at her grandmother's house. "I was fascinated by it, and my granny always said I could have the piano to learn on" she says. "But when the time came, when I was about 11, my aunt was living with my granny, with a baby, and when I asked 'Can I have the piano?' they wouldn't let me have it any more. So there was an exchanging of words, and my mum got me this really tacky organ thing and I went to piano lessons and then she got me a piano for £100. Then, after a few years, she took out a loan and got me a proper piano. I think she thought it was a phase. I had to nag her for a while. I don't know why I was so determined to do it, but I just wanted to go to piano lessons." Life in Glasgow was interrupted in her teens, when her engineer father took a job in the Middle East and Campbell went to board at George Watson's in Edinburgh. "It was interesting," she recalls. "It was good to mix with people from other backgrounds. I got on really well with my room-mate, in a tiny, tiny room, but it was a shame for the kids who'd been there from the first year. It was violent for the young boys. The older boys were just merciless. But the older girls didn't care too much for the younger gilrs either. It was just 'go to this place and see if you can survive'. But I quite liked it because I was older. I was desperate to get away from my family and stuff," she laughs. She used to nip off to the opera with her clarinet-playing friend Rebecca, but her main enthusiasm has always been Sixties pop. "Oh, I don't know any modern music," she groans, before admitting to liking some tracks by Air, Beck and Nick Cave. She was blown away when a boyfriend introduced her to the records of American eccentric Lee Hazlewood and everyone's favourite dirty old Frenchman Serge Gainsbourg. Her current boyfriend is an indie fan who doesn't share her Sixties preoccupations. "We've got the same taste in films," she says hopefully. Even after enrolling at Strathclyde University, eventually to come out with a BA in music, she never expected to make a living from music. "I couldn't think orchestras. It's more like being part of a machine than being creative. I think I've got too many ideas." Being in a band was "always a dream, but I thought only lucky people got to do things like that. I didn't have a howling big rock voice, so I thought I wasn't really a singer. Also, I was female and I couldn't play the guitar very well." A fateful meeting in the opening minutes of 1996 set her on the road to turning this dream into reality. In the queue for the toilet at Hogmanay party, she was approached by a young singer-songwriter named Stuart Murdoch, kicking-off a short-lived romantic relationship and a more durable creative partnership. They arranged a practice session and Belle and Sebastian's debut album, Tigermilk, was recorded a month later. Only a thousand copies were pressed and, until its CD release in 1999, vinyl copies were changing hands for hundreds of pounds. The cult grew, and their first album after being picked up by Jeepster Records. If You're Feeling Sinister, was rated one of the most inspired records in years. After they pipped Steps to the post in the Brits for Best Newcomer of 1998, causing pop svengali Pete Waterman to splutter accusations of a fix, everyone knew their name. A song called "Is it wicked not to care" on the third album, The Boy with the Arab Strap, gave Campbell her first writing credit. Even so, the constrictions of elonging to an eight-piece band were getting to her. With Belle and Sebastian established, she went off to make The Green Fields of Foreverland...recorded in a week with £4,000 of her own money. For all the dreaminess of the music, there's an astute, practical side to Isobel Campbell. Major-label stars can also be found still living in rented flats above a busy main road, while Campbell, one member of a large indie outfit , not only managed to finance the first Gentle Waves album but buy herself a home, too (she lives in Partick, quite close to where she grew up). She reckons it is not hard for someone in her position to manage that. "But musicians and artists are usually quite untogether. It's a bit of an effort for me to be together most of the time as well." She's vague as to whether The Green Fields of Foreverland...has actually shifted the 20,000 copies it's reported to to have sold in the US. So, ambitious or not? She admits it would be nice for The Gentle Waves to be successful, but seems to trust that, by some route of other, her music will find its way to the people who would like it. "The thing that I'm most into is making the best records that I possibly can. To have a dream that is in your head becoming something that's on tape, that's the best thing. And if people buy it, that's even better," she concludes. "I'm not under any illusions. I'm just learnign as I go along." Judging by the distance she's come so far,it's a philosophy that works pretty well." Linda +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sharon Stone will have her revenge on Los Angeles
by P F 02 May '01

02 May '01

Listen up, people. You won't have heard about this yet, but the Scottish pop group Belle and Sebastian are releasing some new records. One of them is called 'Jonathan and David' and will be out on June 18th, to mark the anniversary of the 'J18' demonstrations. Lead track is called 'Jonathan and David'. Other songs include 'Take Your Carriage Clock And Shove It'. A 'carriage clock' is a kind of clock, a piece used for keeping the time on carriages. It is often given to pop groups at awards ceremonies in Scotland. Speculation is Fife, I mean, rife that songwriter Rupert Murdoch wrote the song because he was sick of being given carriage clocks at ceremonies. The song effectively says, "take back the carriage clock with which you have just presented me, because I don't want it. I already have one. In fact, I have several". A third track in the running is called 'The Middle of the Loneliest Runner'. This is a song that the band played on the Tube a couple of years ago, on a carriage between Liverpool Street and Barking. It is not known whether the carriage had a clock. The song describes the loneliness of being a runner. I hope that this news has got you interested. I also have some more news which I think you'll agree is even more exciting. Belle & Sebastian will be playing some dates in Scotland this summer. They may also play some palms, possibly in Morocco, depending on the state of the Road. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: we kiss in his room, to a popular tune
by James Thorniley 02 May '01

02 May '01

Hi all, Oh yay, picnic, hurray! I'm going, but don't let that stop you. Casarotto has gone and organised a tigermilking the same day and I'm upset with him because I can't go because I already have to go to a party and I can't get out of the party because it's mine. I was 17 a little while ago and I have arranged to have people over to my house to get drunk, yay. The other good news in Belle and Sebastian are releasing a single. But wait, it gets better - it's got the loneliness of a middle distance runner which is a great song and the other b side is called "Take your carriage clock and SHOVE IT", which is such a fantastic song title. jeepsternews actually managed to inform me of all this (just) before anyone else, which is amazing because they're famously crap, and it's even more amazing because I don't remember signing up to jeepsternews. The best news is me and Dafyd are going to see a band called belle and sebastian in glasgow. I don't know how we'll afford train tickets, particularly Daf who is flying across the ocean later on in the summer, I wish I had the money to do that. Just quickly now - are drugs twee? It's just a question, but you see I'm very clean and I kind of like this girl who does a lot of pot...hmm.. No I'll stop that story before I get all fey and pathetic on you like everyone hates. You can make it up for yourself.. nervous boy.. pretty girl.. unrequited love etc etc. Oh well. I think Belle and Sebastian should do a cover of "Just Say No" by the cast of grange hill, because you shouldn't do drugs. There seems to be a new wave of anti-smoking ads for kids or something here in the UK. I keep seeing adverts on TV with kids doing "hard" stuff but not smoking. Gawd. They didn't manage to stop me smoking (completely) and I'm an obedient little boy. Suggesting that you go to under-18s nightclubs and breakdance instead of smoking is hardly going to win over the hard kids, now, is it. Bye the way I'm a closet smoker please don't tell my mum. I don't really smoke, filthy habit. I'm going to stop before this gets long again because I'm sure no-one reads very far down. Byebye darling James, P.S. Lyric contest - song name and band for the subject line. I'm sure it's too easy so I don't want entries but if you get it right think to yourself "I know a cool song, which makes me cool, but I know the lyrics to it, which makes me a sad music nerd", and make yourself a little prize, a cup of coffee perhaps - you are still quite cool, we all get lyrics in our heads, it's not really that bad. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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