June 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Glasgow Again, Sorry
by David Moore 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Hi There, I found a few other memories of last weekend kicking around in my head that no-one else seems to have covered. About 3 songs into Saturday's gig Stuart was going on about how great it was to be doing a concert in your hometown, when you can wake up in your own bed. The he remembered that he hadn't woken up in his own bed .... & said that it was a good thing that his Mum & Dad weren't there (although his sister would probably tell them) More star spotting: Saturday afternoon we saw Stevie returning from town on the Great Western Road having bought the cow, sheep, Glasgow rock etc. Who was it that said that he was the only band member in the Art School later? (James?) Mick & Bob were there too. At Stabiliser Towers on Friday night we were lucky enough to watch the hilarious Jonathan David video a couple of times (some saw it so many times they no longer considered it lucky ...) The love triangle story is intercut with the band performing the song in costume: Stevie at the piano with Jason King moustache & feather boa, Stuart all Marcel Marceau in whiteface, Mick in a blonde wig (again!), Beans playing melodica in a hat, Oh, I can't remember the rest. When Stuart looks at the girl his facial expression says he wants to EAT her. Stevie's sadness very touching. In Another Place Jordi was asking about The Smiths cover on Friday. I don't know if The Boy With The Thorn In His Side was actually requested or just any Smiths song. Stevie said he knew the chords and he & Stuart sang it although neither could really remember the words. Isobel should have sung it as she seemed to know them perfectly. Er, Saturday's covers. For the sake of good taste & decency I feel I should point out that during the Declaimers song Stuart didn't look too happy & finished it (at last!) saying something like "that's enough of that rubbish" I know I'm being boring but Saturday WAS a fantastic gig. When's the live album coming out, pretty please? This is a cheek too, Nick (hi, great to hear from you again!) having done all the hard work, but I heard 3 minor differences to him in the first song of last night's session, so: SHOOT THE SEXUAL ATHLETE Now I'm in a band people try to make me do things Kiss arses and pay tribute But I'm inclined today to do those things anyway And I don't care who hears it 'Cause I'm a fan of the Go-Betweens A fan of Robert, and I always have been But I like Grant, now that I've met him Because he's charming Of all the stars, and all the would-be stars I'd take him home, to my mum and dad Yeah, he's charming, but he's a trouble-maker too He amuses me greatly I like Lindy and I saw Vickers Pete stole the set list, and the itinerary He wrote my name down as 'Tour Rent Boy' It was hard, but so is life I was making button badges And I had too much time on my hands I coloured them by hand Pere Ubu and the Sugarcubes Kids came in to watch me But Pete & Sean just scorned Just like they scorned Robert But I secretly loved the big guy He dressed like Sherlock Holmes And he fixed us with a quizzative eye Before singing such romances That only the sods trampled underfoot by Thatcher Could appreciate their love Could appreciate their love Someone said it was reminiscent of 80's Lou Reed, but I was put in mind of another Velvet as its spoken a bit like the way John Cale recites The Gift Happy Birthday to the Pinefox! Better go now, Love, David Moore Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: braggin about beeness, cool poems, and RESULTS!
by idleberry 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Ian said: "But it was very difficult this morning not to sound like an excited little girl when my work people asked me how my weekend had been, cause it was lots of fun. They probably all think I'm a little bit sad now." I know how that feels. I came back to uni, and I spotted my pals. They looked at me. How was the gig? they asked. That was Monday afternoon. I *think* I stopped bleeting how brilliant the gig was some time yesterday evening (tuesday). I'm not entirely sure. I think I ought to do a sponsored "don't say the beeness name!" thing for a week. That'll shut me up. I'll have to think of something else to say. But no, I won't. I gotta milk this story for a few more months yet, cos its a rare thing, these gigs. You have to savour them.. the fragrance before, the initial taste, then the warm feeling in your belly afterwards, where you lick your lips and sigh with contentment. I saw this great poem today. I was waiting for the bus (had been to buy Boots entire store of hayfever relief thingys) and there was this dude there, with this great big bit of card, with this poem written on it. It was the best poem I've read in years. Get this line, you lot: "Terry says hes stopped playing the cryptic crosswords, I know how he feels". Sorry, but I was impressed. So I spoke to the poem man there and then, and just told him how awestruck I was by his poem. Its a poem about falling out of love, you see, and it has this reference at the bottom, where New Scientist reckoned that love was a mental illnes, and lasts 18 months tops. And this guy was making some sort of comment about falling out of love. It was called "Exit Notes (moment of departure)". It was trully fantastic. i've never been so dumbfounded and astonished by poetry like that for such a long time. I can't remember his name though. Hmm. JP sesh was ace last night. Anyone off here enter the beeness competition for tix to London? Bet you ALL did, even if you've already seen them on this tour! Still, like I said, savour it. Whens the next Beeness single out? Anyone know? Has it got a title? What songs are on it? I'm a little excitable today. Oh, and my flatmate got her results. She got a 2:1, the jammy babe. Their due out Friday, apparently. I started shakign with fear for no apparent reason last night when I heard its Friday. Or before Friday, depending on when they manage to get them out. I've put my pals on emergency Haagen Daz standby (chocolate chip) incase it all goes dreadfully wrong. That way, when I jump off the top of the uni building, it won't take so long to fall, cos my extra weight and the effects of gravity will assist. Keep your knickers crossed and wish happy thoughts for me. Alternatively, if anyone fancies calling UEA (Norwich) and bribing them... Cheers Idles xxxxx ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke we're all smoking our corduroys in our secret little b+s club- what are you doing?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Thank you Stuart for "Isobel's trademark gerbil-having-an-asthma-attack"
by Megan Conniff 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Stuart, I have to say, that this comment "when it started as a Gentle Waves song, with Isobel's trademark gerbil-having-an-asthma-attack singing" made me laugh harder than I have ever since I started reading gig reviews of all these shows on another continent that I can't go to. So thank you for that. As for those of you who have been going to the gigs and taping Peel sessions . . . is anyone making these new songs available in mp3 format? People have mentioned this, but no one has said exactly where these mysterious mp3s are. I'm sure everyone not in the UK would be extremely grateful to anyone who could help us out here. Thanks, Megan _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: R A H (just wondering)
by DansonHatcher＠aol.com 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Hi listees Is there anyone organising a meet-up before the Royal Albert Hall gig? Where? When? etc.. Also does anyone know a place to stay (at reasonable cost) near there? Still got that Birmingham ticket going if it's any use to you. I bought The Velvet Underground's "The Velvet Underground" the other day and highly recomend it to you lot, Brill. See u . James. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Shoot her with your sexual athlete
by Gardiner, Stuart 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

It's amazing how many people have asked about pre / post gig arrangements. And it's amazing how many times the details have been posted. Oh well, here we go again: Scarborough: There's a coach leaving York at 5pm, or meet on the beach. Bring food and drink for a picnic on the beach opposite the theatre. As always, just look out for people wearing button badges upside-down. Preston: Nothing beforehand as yet, but there's a club opening specially for us afterwards. London: Picnic by the Albert Memorial on Friday afternoon, starting about 2pm-ish, and then more and more people will gradually turn up when they finish work. Bring food, drink, and an inflatable hippopotamus. Picnic in Greenwich on Saturday afternoon after the gig. Bring hangover cures. Birmingham: We get in and out of Birmingham as quick as possible, because it's a dump. (Anyone got a sofa / floor to spare in London? In return, I'll promise not to stand in front of you at the gig...) Anyway, the Peel Session. Not as good as the last session they did on first impressions, maybe the songs will grow on me. First song: Shoot The Sexual Athlete. Good to see the band maintaining their policy of giving songs the most bizarre titles imaginable. Was that Stuart M or another band member doing the Peacock Johnson style can't-be-arsed-to-sing-so-I'll-just-talk-instead-and-hope-noone-notices vocals? My first thought on hearing it was "Lou Reed in the mid-80s". Except it was about the Go-Betweens instead of being about drugs. Long-time viewers may recollect that I'm not a big fan of the Go-Betweens. 'Nuf said. The Magic Of A Kind Word: When it started as a Gentle Waves song, with Isobel's trademark gerbil-having-an-asthma-attack singing, I got a sinking feeling in my stomach. But then the rest of the band joined in, the tempo upped, and it turned into a bit of a knees-up. The arrangement didn't seem to quite gel though, it has the potential to turn out fantastic when it's recorded properly in the studio. Incidentally, it turns out the sinking feeling in my stomach was the burger I'd eaten earlier. Nothing In The Silence: A duet between Sarah and Isobel. Will be popular with people who liked Beyond The Sunrise. (My Girl's Got) Miraculous Technique: My favourite of the night by a distance. I would put good money on it being the last song on their next album; it has a kind of atmospheric, finality to it, in the same way as Pulp's song David's Last Summer could only ever appear at the end of an album. By the end of the song, you're so engrossed that you don't know if it lasted for 2 minutes or 10. Which is a good thing. Am I the only one who thinks "I Love My Car" sounds like the kind of thing Father Jack would say? Big Stu +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: The Hissing of Summer Loons
by Peter Miller 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

I went to see a film called TIME'S UP. It marks a new low point in the history of independent cinema. It actually looks as if it was filmed on toilet paper. The new single. JONTY DAVID features some really terrible singing. STUFF YOUR CABBAGE CLOCK's string arrangement has all the stately elegance of a month old loaf of Sunblest. MIDDLE DISTANCE RUNNER's guitar solo should have been a real speaker shreddder, the loudest thing in the world, leaping out of the stereo and throttling the listener, but instead it sounds a bit poorly, in need of some Lucozade. I suppose it might grow on me. But right now I'm UNDERWHELMED. And I wasn't scratching my head when I saw the sleeve, I was tutting and shaking my head sadly. I much prefer ISLAND LETTER by Shuggie Otis and WHAT'S GOING ON (rhythm and strings mix) by Marvin Gaye. Is it any wonder I pull so many birds? What really pisses me off about JD is that for just three times the amount of money it cost me I could have had the RELENTLESSLY THUMPING new album by Missy "Misedemeanour" Elliot. Peter +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: He's not joking about the Sherlock Holmes thing, y'know [caution: spoiler]
by Nick.Dastoor＠guardian.co.uk 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

SHOOT THE SEXUAL ATHLETE Now I'm in a band people try to make me do things Kiss arses and pay tribute But I'm inclined to do those things anyway And I don't care who hears it 'Cause I'm a fan of the Go-Betweens A fan of Robert, and I always have been But I like Grant, now that I've met him Because he's charming Of all the stars, and all the would-be stars I'd take him home, to my mum and dad Yeah, he's charming, but he's a trouble-maker too He amuses me greatly I like Lindy and I saw Vickers Pete stole the set list, and the itinerary He wrote my name down as 'Tour Rent Boy' It was hard, but so is life [terrific violin break] I was making button badges And I had too much time on my hands I coloured them in by hand Pere Ubu and the Sugarcubes Kids came in to watch me But Pete & Sean just scorned Just like they scorned Robert But I secretly liked the big guy He dressed liked Sherlock Holmes And he fixed us with a quizzative eye Before singing such romances That only the sods trampled underfoot by Thatcher Could appreciate their love Could appreciate their love But it doesn't really work without the music. In one way, it sounds like the kind of novelty record that makes it into the Festive 50 at no.31. But in another, it has restored my faith in Belle & Sebastian. Sure, it's a minor piece, but there's so much life on it. No fucking 60s inflections or overloaded string sections or 'what instrument shall we use next'. Instead, just an instinctively great vocal delivery, weird phrasing, experimental instrumentation (is the band doing a kind of human beatbox thing at one point?) and all. Like nothing you've ever heard them do before, yet the effect on *this* listener was to be thrown straight back into the ear-to-ear grin that I had when I fell in love with them in the first place. Incidentally, I think they have made up the word 'quizzative'. I assume it's a conflation of 'quizzical' and 'acquisative', probably meant to mean the former, if I know Robert Forster's looks. And I'm not sure about the I got the 'Pete & Sean' line right. It could be 'Pete Shotton' for all I know. THE MAGIC OF A KIND WORD (for Poppa) I understand the opening lines of this song were met with grimaces when they played it live in Glasgow. "NO! ISOBEL! PLEASE NOT ANOTHER BREATHY SONG FEATURING THE WORD 'SORROW'!" They're tricksters though, and it soon mutates into one of those 60s pop pastiches they ermm.. love. I guess it's OK if you like that sort of thing. Not as overproduced as it might be if they were doing it on their own time NOTHING IN THE SILENCE Y'know, I even quite liked the last Gentle Waves album. But a side-project is a side project. By this point I was just thinking "Hmm.. this session started in the best way possible and now it's just gone to shit. But at least this means the last track is likely to be another Stuart one" MY GIRL'S GOT MIRACULOUS TECHNIQUE Yep, Stuart's back. Peel called it 'My Baby's Got Miraculous Technique' at the end, but I think he was right the first time. I have it down as a grower. Hello everyone. It's nice to be back. I really got excited last night when 'Shoot The Sexual Athlete' came on and I just wanted to tell you all about it. Nick xx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I am a lonesome hobo
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

'lo folks Oh how one gets sick of reading posts about gigs they'd really love to be at, when, realistically speaking, they have no means to be at. (this means you, UK listees). and to Hye Min, who wrote the "6 Reasons Why My Life Sucks Right Now and Why I Can't Do Anything To Help It" post, well, at least B&S are coming to your country, right? I mean, you *could* get there a damn site quicker and cheaper than I could, all the way from arse-end-of-the world New Zealand. (right now my only hope is that, when a certian Mr Robertson comes to New Zealand, he will be *completely blown away* with the beautiful scenary, relaxed lifestly etc., that he will INSIST that B&S relocate here, or at least come over and play some gigs) .... yeah yeah, fat chance. but I feel your pain anyway. ***IRRELEVANT RANT-(please skip)*** I have discovered why most normal Americans hate Christians so much. as a long time Christian, and a fairly reasonably person most of the time, I've always found the vehemence which "normal", reasonable Americans hate Christians with to be a little disturbing. like, why? but yesterday I found out. I was trying to find some information of Templar Knights, to supplement my current reading of Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum". anyway, I come across all these "we hate Roman catholic" sites put up by mad-raving fundamental "Christians" (and I use that term loosely) OK, so the Catholic has been responsible for God know how many atrocities, but this didn't seem to be their reason. no, Catholicism is the "whore religion", is tied up with the Illumaniti, is actually a Satanic cult, and is behind the "new world order", whatever the hell that is. So that was all quite interesting. and then the bit about rock'n'roll. Rock music is evil because it causes children to violate the commandment "children, honour your mother and father". Because some adults don't like rock music, and hence listening to it is disobeying them. nice once folks. I realise this has absolutely nothing to do with Belle & Sebastian, nor indie pop in general, but I just felt like ranting, because ... well, no one else cares. ***CONTINUE READING FROM HEREON IN*** Stephen Malkmus is coming here. I am excited. Sure, he's not Belle & Sebastian, but it's something, right? Although it doesn't sound like he's playing any Pavement stuff, and his album is short, so I can't really see him playing for more than an hour. Still, the tickets are cheap. ***BELLE & SEBASTIAN STUFF*** It is more than a year since "Fold Your Hands ..." came out. I was wondering what the general consensus about the album was, now it's had time to settle. Personally, I now rank it as my second favourite B&S album, like so .... 1. "Tigermilk" 2. "Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant" 3. "If You're Feeling Sinister" 4. "The Boy With The Arab Strap" Of course, I still love "Arab Strap", it's just the one I listen to least. But the worst B&S album is still better than the best albums by most bands, right? The set lists coming back from the gigs sound great. A lot of new material. I really hope a new album materialises soon. I mean, I know they've said that they wont release anything for a while, but it would be nice (hint hint) if the tour, playing together etc., got the creative juices flowing, the they popped off to the studio for a few weeks and churned out an album in a few weeks (like the first two), and not a year like the last two). There is something to be said for spontaneous album creation ... Hefner do it brilliant, and anyone how has had the pleasure of listening to "In The Pines" by The Triffids (recorded in a woolshed for a few hundred bucks, in a few days) will know what I mean. I second the proposal for a bible themed B&S album too .... more suggestions .... "Our 40 years of wandering are over" "Me and the Messiah" "Joseph and the dream of technicolour coats" "Ease your feet in the Red Sea" ***JONATHAN DAVID*** I feel like the only person in the world who hasn't heard it. I am itching with anticipation for the parcel coming from amazon.co.uk (not from Jeepster, because they didn't get their act into gear quickly enough, alas .....) this post lacks focus, I know. And for that I apologise. I am tired, and need to go to sleep. Hope all is well, and that all gig goers are enjoying themselves. think of me, OK? Lawrence Mikkelsen AKA "The Winged Cow" (my "Wu-name", according to a friend into such things) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Say it loud, I'm P!O!P! and proud
by Brian Pennington 20 Jun '01

20 Jun '01

Heyyyy Sinister, Oh, how could I not post! Those silly Glaswegians are getting me worked up like a schoolgirl. First tour reports, then a new single, then more tour reports, then a fantastic Peel session. It's all too much. I think I may be swooning.... Alright I've recovered somewhat. I got my roomate to tape the Peel session, a somewhat precarious operation involving placing my iBook next to my stereo and hooking them together, running a phone line across the room to the stereo and setting the iBook up to play Radio 1's RealAudio feed. Moreover I had a previous engagement and my roomate had to do all the recording, I'm just glad he remembered. As it was the poor iBook crashed right before "The Magic of a Kind Word," so I only heard the other three. I must say I am by no means disappointed. Also, Peel said none of the four would be on the next EP. The skinny for you who are searching Napster frantically... (My Girl's Got) Miraculous Technique I mention this one first despite its being played last because I love love love it. I suspect it is their take on dub. The culprits - the offbeat reverby piano chords, the warm organ (yes I just said WARM ORGAN), the plodding bass, and Richard going crazy on those skins every so often (although these outbursts lacked the dub-eriffic echoes usually reserved for their traditional dub counterparts). This song is unabashedly happy and oh-so catchy. The only problem is that it's full of snowy wintry imagery and it seems a travesty to hear it in the summertime. But I give it a perfect 10. I keep rewinding it and playing it over and over. It has a decidedly un-dub ubertwee flute/strings breakdown too. Mmmm ok moving on. Shoot the Sexual Athelete Another case of Struan getting more and more self-referential about him and being in a band and all. It's almost like a spoken word rap a la StuD with just bass, drums and Struan rapping and then those guitars kick in. Oh those guitars.... it's like Felt doing a rap song. Lawrence did sort of have a sing-songy way of vocalizing from time to time didn't he? But anyway the song is lovely and fun. Ohhhhh my god and I just figured out a line and realized the whole song is about Robert Forster. I just couldn't understand what he was saying in one line but he spells it all out. It's even got a sort of Forster-ish quality about the singing. Now all the lines later on make so much more sense. Mmm, you've got to love a band that write songs about Go-Betweens. The Magic of a Kind Word Didn't hear it, my roomate missed this one. Is it the sort of electronic-y number? Something in the Silence I've forgotten the title to this one, sorry. Truth be told I've only listened to it twice as it's buried in the middle of the tape and finding it is trickier than finding the other two, and I have to keep replaying Miraculous Technique over and over. It's got Isobel and Sarah singing a duet, and some patently unorthodox instrumentation. i.e. very quiet guitars, lots of vibraphone and harmonica. It's nice but didn't catch my ear as much as the others. Sounds sort of Gentle Waves-ish. I'll have to MP3 them for, ah, my own personal listening enjoyment, and listen to them over and over a bit. So I got Jonathan David the day it came out, walked down a few blocks, checked one record store, didn't have it, checked another, got it there. No fuss no muss. I've listened to it a few times...I must say I was actually a bit concerned about my favorite band starting to get sort of dull. The overwhelmingly upbeat Jonathan David didn't float my boat right away, but I've come to give it a grudging admiration. It's certainly upbeat enough to be the single...anyway the B-sides are lovely too, but not especially exciting. I agree with previous assertions that they dulled down Loneliness a bit too much by burying the guitars in the mix. But it's a damned good song anyway. Oh those organs. But yeah, something in the tension of the song got lost. So now there's a bevy of new B&S songs floating hither and thither and we're going to have to start figuring out how to make sense of them. There's these four tracks from the session, and Big John Shaft (played at Glasgow Uni, equally ace) and the 'Spanish-influenced song' Stevie was asked about by the NME, all of which the band claim won't be on the next EP. Then there's "I'm Waking Up to You," which Stevie said involved 23 session musos in the studio and will be on one of the EPs (so it sounds like it will be on the second...), "I Love My Car," which sounds as though it would be the frontrunner for the A-side to the next single as it's the only new song that they've not specifically dismissed from the EP that they've been playing live. I can hardly imagine them not playing the second single on their tour, and it's supposed to be so catchy and all. I'm excited. Then there's "Lord Antony," which seems sort of forlorn but could still see release. After all, Loneliness finally came out. They seem to have a thing for putting songs that have been languishing on trainspotters' ears on EPs. First Middle Distance Runner, now Loneliness. Who knows. I doubt Rhoda et al will ever see the light of day anytime soon though. Very exciting, that's all I can say. And that's not even counting the whole Storytelling soundtrack.... 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Sinister: legalbaggageman
by kheydt 19 Jun '01

19 Jun '01

Just heard the peel sessions and Sarah still has the most beautiful voice I ever heard (even through Realaudio). Mp3's of live or broadcast performances shouldn't have legal baggage (if they do, nobody mention it so we can all plead innocent). Also heard camera obscura before the show. Beautiful, really stunned me. Then I did a search on the web for them and found a punk band with the same name. Not so beautiful. -kheydt +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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