June 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: 1,2,3...
by Arantxa Sanz 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

Seconds and content: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4202379,00.html that is what I call flashy typewriting, Ms Alder.A pity there is no picture online, so unless one grabs the print copy of 'The Guardian' today, one misses to watch how the time goes by and does not affect Struan's cherub complexion,blimey. Among those who shall not have this chance, I feel particularly sorry for Genevieve Wesley. She would fully appreciate it,that inmaculate t-shirt,that BurtLancastrian poise,though I wonder whether she is still reading this as nothing else but her silence has honoured these untouchable pages since the days where the man previously known as David(Stuart) took by storm the most respectable bookshops in the island. Amidst this Genevieve-Disparue scenario, I shall be crossing an ocean (any _>blatant overuse of parentheses) for first time, my plane exactly pointing to the home land of this most arresting of the school pupils. Unfortunately, my mission is not the very exciting one of retrieving Gen's presence from the depths of some icy lake surrounded by majestically tall beeches, simply attending an international meeting related with work.However, if anyone else is going to ask me 'What-have-you-lost-in-Ontario?' as the question has been formulated one too many times, I seriously consider the possibility to answer 'We lost Genevieve Wesley',adopting a kind of 'Who killed Laura Palmer?' entonation. xxx Arantxa +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: anything's better than posh isolation
by Kirstin Schreiber 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

i had a nice B&S moment last night outside of the little coffee shop where evryone pretends to go and do work, but really, it's just to participate in fun little coffee shop behaviors, like going outside to smoke cigarettes every five minutes, or to complain about how no meaningful poetry can get written under all that oppressive track lighting. . . anyway, i was engaging in the cigarette thing and thought i heard someone mention belle and sebastian. putting my usual shyness aside( b&s often do that for me) i started up a conversation with a very cute girl about how swell they are. nice to bond with someone about how great it is to dance to b&s while drinking. . or while doing most anyting else really. i had been feeling lonely in my love for them becasue people kept turning Tigermilk down at work and it was madening. told her about this fine mailing list, which actually means she might read this. ah well. _________________________________________________________________ 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: Into the Land of the Infidel (Dunfermline)
by Ian Nicolson 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

Not many people have been posting gig reviews so far (obviously far too cool to do geeky stuff like that) so in an attempt to rectify this, and to make everyone else jealous, and because I'm at work and therefore have nothing better to do with the wonderous IT equipment here, I thought I'd try to write something about Dunfermline last night. Although I am useless at these things ('how was the gig, Ian?' 'Yeh, erm, good'), so you'll have to bear with me and my failing memory. It was with a spring in our step and a song in out hearts that we boarded the train for Dunfermline, for not only did we have the excitement of seeing Belle and Sebastian, but we also had to cross the Forth Bridge first. One of our number thought that it would be fun to dive off it, until it was pointed out that it was a notorious suicide spot. I think that put her off the idea. The Carnegie Hall is a typical small-town theatre type place, with a balcony and, er, a stage. And seats, of course. All of which seemed to be taken. I'd imagine they have a pantomime there every year. We managed to set up a little Sinister enclave before choosing to sample the glittering delights of Tiffany's Cafe Bar (candles! drink! hurrah!) and I managed to miss the Uptown Shufflers, which was a shame. I think. From what I could tell (which admittedly isn't much, as I didn't see them at all) they'd probably make more sense in smaller places like Dunfermline, than they will at the Barrowlands, say. But what do I know? Lollipops were kindly supplied by two lovely young Sinister girls. When our heroes came on Stuart claimed that they were all a bit tired. Three nights in a row is maybe a bit too much for the poor little petals, but I can't say that it really showed, apart from maybe a couple of missed lines, and a bit of an arsed up segue from 'The Boy...' into 'The Fox In the Snow', which he had to start again. The set was pretty much the same as Dunoon, except they missed Like Dylan in the Movies. The bastards. At their little break bit they seemed a bit confused as to what to do. I was half hoping, given the venue and everything, that the Great Suprendo (pif paf poof!!) might come on, but they ended up playing Time of the Season, complete with lovely tongue clicks and aahs from Sarah and Isobel. Again they seemed fairly relaxed on stage, making jokes and stuff, none of which I can really remember, cause I'm hopeless. They said something about the Two Ronnies at one point, and Chris showed off his local knowledge by mentioning Barbara Dickson. Stuart made some reference to drinking blood red wine in Dunfermline, which went over my head. Not the wine, the reference. Of the new songs I think I liked the one about the car bestest, as it mentions pussycats. One of them seemed to have a bit of an electronic beat thing going on, but I can't remember which. Stuart Gardiner asked about the hugeness of Isobel's arse, but she had a big fancy skirt on last night, so you couldn't really tell. And no one had brought a measuring tape anyway. Going home I noticed a couple of local neds who were confused by the number of biscuit nibbling, cardigan wearing freaks waiting for the Edinburgh train, which was nice. It's always fun to confuse neds. Lawrence from NZ asked about the soundtrack album. There were a couple of interviews in the papers last weekend with various members of the band and from what I can remember there'll be three real songs, some music and a few little jingles or something. They'd apparently written music for the whole film, but the director only wanted them to do half in the end. Sorry if this has been a load of garbled nonsense - I'm very tired today. I had to get up far too early this morning - all this working stuff is no fun. I'm sure someone else can write a far better review than this one. Ian N. _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Twink, the starsprinkles...
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

Hewwo, Well, I've been in hospital, which was all lacking in swellness. I went to Fife, to get drunk and play football, only I never, because I got taken in to hospital cause I had tummy pains that were making me be sick and pass out. And I got this student doctor, who was really crap, and totally killed my arm when he stuck the drip thing in it. You should see the state of it. It took him three attempts to find a vein. So no one knew what was wrong and this junior doctor said "Hmm, cancer is a possibility", and I was pretty worried. You could tell he was the kind of prick who was so desparate to tell someone they had cancer so he could go back to his little mod friends and drink a cappuchino and say "It was so tough, I had to tell some kid they had cancer". What a weasel. He hit on Jaz and gave her his number. She threatened to dislocate his jaw, i think. Oh yeah and I was hallucinating from all the morphine they gave me, so I was pretty convinced that there were monsters coming after me. But it turns out that I don't have cancer. I have a thing on my ovaries which is like I tried to grow a person, but it didn't have any boy genes so it just stuck there with a load of people cells in a blob and made it hurt a lot. The first place I was in was a bit not grate. The nurses were totally insane, they used tohave games of tig in the corridors. Oh oh oh, and then they moved me to another hospital, but by then I was feeling better (ie, could walk and talk), and they wanted to give me an operation to take the thing out from inside me, but the doctor said that I might not ever have children, or something could go really wrong, cause I'm 15. And that was a worry, and then Jaz and Igor came in and made fun of all the sick people and brought me a stuffed rabbit called Crotchbunny, and it was nice. And the ladies i was in a room with were complete gimps and kept trying to tell me about their dihorrea and woke me up at 6.00 in the morning to talk about it and everything, and I got rather pissed off. And I told the doctor that i had to be out on friday (to see some band or other) and he said his sister had been to see them and they were good. And in the end I never had the op cause it was dangerous so they sent me home instead. So I'll be at B&S on Friday but please can nobody bump into to me if you don't have to , because there's still a little dead helf-person lump of evil cells trying to make me hurt. Only when I got in I had a few people to phone because igor told them I was dead for a laugh. But I can't wait now to see them, it's going to be grate. Oh oh oh and the lovely Ian Hatcher got me a Twink doll to cuddle and it's swell, and rainbow brite is the best thing ever in th whole world ever and I love shy violet. If you see a girl with lots of badges at the friday gig, it's me, so come and talk to me. Sorry this was boring, Hugs, Jen +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: I remember Paris perfectly. The Germans wore grey, you wore blue
by Lucy Alder 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

Ciao ragazzi/e What's Tim Burgess doing on the cover of Jonathan David? And why are B&S singing songs about Jewish bookshops? http://www.jonathandavidonline.com/ The fifteen minute rule isn't fair. First up, it isn't actually a rule and I'm not sure who invented it, but it somehow seems to have stuck. The other thing is that it discriminates against fast typers. A flashy 70wpm chick like me has to come up with twice as much interesting/amusing/completely pointless stuff as a 35wpm slow coach and it's not on. I prefer to think of Cliff Richard, myself, dressed in stripey leggings like in this picture http://www.sir-cliff.com/dist9.jpg Cor! I can't quite work out if calling your website sir-cliff.com. is a good or bad thing. Hang on, it's Cliff! Of course it's good! Another thing that's good is Camera Obscura. Their new video features Mr Cook and Ms Lander of this here parish, wearing silly glasses and straight faces in Struan's car. I'd have swooned if I were them. A couple of weeks ago, I went to Glasgow for a whole eight days! Glasgow's lovely. It has cheap record shops and pies. Cheap records don't drip grease all down your top when you bite into them, but pies sure as heck do! And then they give you heartburn and turn you cranky. I don't question Two-Ton Ted from Teddington's weapon of choice when he fought Ernie. One day, we left Glasgow early in the morning and went to the Isle of Arran, where we were accosted by flies and an oyster catcher whose nest Ally nearly trod on. I blame the oyster catcher. Who the heck lays eggs on a rock? Don't oyster catchers know you're meant to collect bits of twig and moss and those plastic things that hold beer cans together and build a nest? I also bought a Scottish tea time cookery book which has a recipe for tattie scones. I thought they were a breakfast time thing, not tea time, but never mind. English supermarkets don't sell tattie scones, you see. They only sell potato cakes, which are a lot thicker and go all puddeny when you fry them. Honey and Linda took us to a pub that has a book of rules! We weren't allowed to sit in the cat's chair or in the regulars' seats and we didn't know the special knock to get into the room for people who've been regulars for ten years or more. However, if you order the first Bloody Mary of the day you get it free and they make it properly with a stick of celery and everything. I bet they don't have a book of rules in the Saracen's Head. I'm going back to Glasgow on Saturday and I've never seen B&S before and it's going to be great, I know it is and and and! I am starting to get that night before Christmas feeling and have transferred all my B&S mp3s to one playlist so I can play them all at once in alphabetical order if I so desire. And I do, by gum! Juicy Lucy ps. a while ago, Alexander asked if Sinister was a land or maybe a town, but nay! It's a village, look here: http://www.move.to/sinistervillage ===== We're going out! http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/london-indie ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Birmingham (July 2nd) Ticket
by DansonHatcher＠aol.com 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

Hello all Just very quickly, I've got a spare ticket for the Belle & Seb' gig in Birmingham going spare due to a friend not able to come. You can email me but you'd be more likely to get hold of me on the phone 07932150709 I'm in Leicester so anyone round here would be easier . ================================================ So it's a Datsun, WHAT'S YOUR POINT? 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: sex, politics and religion
by Rachel Playforth 12 Jun '01

12 Jun '01

:0( i'm so ashamed. my last message to the list apparently slipped through in the ugly leprous attire of HTML. the tart. thought i'd try again today. though, as so often happens in my life, the moment may have passed.... addenda to the following message (past and present are getting confused in my mind now like in the episode of battlestar galactica i inadvertently watched the other day because i didn't have my glasses on and got involved trying to work out what it was): Adrian - i too read Watchmen again straight after finishing it, and only partly because i was on a train between glasgow and brighton with nothing else to read... as for the gilliam film, it may ever remain a castle in the air as i read that the cost of buying the rights is now estimated at a million pounds (or dollars?) a page. parentheses - this list is particularly keen on them i've noticed. they're great. chiefly because they let you just keep going with as many digressions as you want (and we usually want lots) without losing any of the meaning of the original masterly point (if indeed there was any there to start with). oh, and more to adrian: glug is called glog i think. i had it a lot one christmas after friends went to scandinavia. think it was the 'adult' version... finally, well, before i laboriously reproduce what i said last week, hugs to ken pikachu. you should move to brighton, where the girls are single and the beach is... shingle. more biblical paraphrases from gordon, please. my biblical namesake's husband jacob worked for 14 years so he could marry her - my kind of guy. i always feel kind of guilty around people called leah though, the older, uglier sister who jacob was tricked into marrying after the first 7 years. but then, rachel means 'ewe' in hebrew, which has got to be one of the most unromantic definitions ever. i saw a girl with a 3...6...9 badge yesterday, which isn't that common round these anti-indie parts, i can tell you. part of me thinks that to notice such things, much less care, is a bit sad. b&s are just another band, after all, and you can't possibly make useful value judgements about people just from their musical taste. you can't, you know. but on the other hand b&s have been part of my life for so long, and they have come to 'stand for' something, whether i like it or not. sometimes i think sinister is a bit like organised religion: an anchor and a comfort even to people who don't truly believe in the relevant god any more. is that a bad thing to say? the japanese have a word 'amae' which describes that warm feeling of being accepted, included and understood by a group of peers. so rare, so amazing when it happens. sinister at its best moments can produce 'amae', i suspect. whether b&s can take the credit is debatable.... hm... an uncharacteristically reflective aside. my friend (previously known in this context as bagpuss boy) could do a wicked version of the pigeon street theme tune on his casio keyboard. cooo coooo. i'm just gutted that my tendency to travel sickness has put paid to me ever becoming long distance clara. it just sounds like a porn name now... luv archel xxx *************************************** Rachel Playforth 'She may not be famous, but she's right' - Homer Simpson For the best in new writing on the web, visit www.buzzwords.org.uk Contact us on buzzwords(a)bigfoot.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: cause offense by the way i look
by Kyla Schuller 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Hello dearies -- I have an important question for all sinisterines. It involves "the scene." I am curious how other people feel about the appearance roles men play versus the appearance roles women play. In my experience, which is pretty much limited to the US west coast, it seems that in indie rock it is indeed fair and dandy for maletypes to be huge ol' nerds, including poorly chosen clothing, sporadically-tended hair, and the like. Of course I don't mean the hair that is carefully sculpted to look disheveled, but the more or less "authentic" thing. Some of this is postured, but some of it isn't. this seems to me incredibly liberating, at least from my girl vantage point, the cultural revenge of the uncool child, and not the hungry capitalist retribution of the computer geeks, but something much more sweet and giving. A few weeks ago at a show of all-female bands, there was this bio boy with a bright yellow t-shirt featuring a school bus (not the b & s one), a huge band-aid connecting the bridge of his nose to his cheekbone, and most admirably, he totally circumvented the whole "earplugs? or no earplugs?" question by sporting a large maroon-colored pair of construction worker earmuffs. plus, he danced as one imagines he would. now, he stuck out all the more to me in a room full of riot grrls and riot grrl bands, and I could find no equivalent nerdy female, not even a remotely close nerdy female, even (especially?) in riot grrl, it is not acceptable to be an unintentional nerd, or heaven forbid, a girl who detests to shop for clothes, one must be either a carefully chosen truck stop caf� patron, or a hard punk rocker, or a retro-perfect femme, or an 80s glam queen, or a deliberately dressed "dork" (my favorites are the girls who sculpt huge cowlicks to stick out the back of their heads!). .. . you get my point. Which seems to me quite sad. Where is the space for the nerdy girl? So I ask all you lovely sinisterines, especially those of you lucky enough to go to the ongoing shows -- are there nerdy indie girls there? How many of us are nerdy girls? My hope is that a band like b & s, who feature so many female characters/heroes in their songs, would attract some less-posed girls, or maybe create a space for girls who don't comb the thriftstores every weekend. My na�ve, rather formalist, hope is that b & s is a sort of refuge. Of course, males who want to slam my outsider glamorization of male freedom in indie rock would also be of interest. Anyone who wants to share these fashion details of the crowds at the b & s shows with us will receive my never-dying love! so this is plenty for a first post. thank you. kyla __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! 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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: cinnnnamon take aways
by Nigel R. Townshend 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

I haven't emailed in ages, i've had exams but a few things inspired me to write... one was about photographs from picnics i have some photographs from the Sheffield picnic (well two) but i dont have a working scanner so if anyone in Sheffield would like to see them drop us a line. Although there is only two photogrpahs and one is slighty out of focus. Another thing there was a subject heading the said sinsiter: little boy lost and it made me think of me cos thats my dj name which reminds me if anyone is in Sheffield tomorow Tuesday 12th June then come to the Casbah and check out the fantastic Velodrome 2000 who are supporting Murry the Hump. - see that i linked another post to my advertsing thus making it look like i wasn't abusing list rules when i am! ( i could be a tory with a mind like that) - or prehaps just Tony Blair, his mind has been warped with the power, where's his ideals gone? Sorry it scares me and what also scares me is the fact that Mikey portaloo is going to be the next leader of the tory party Arghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! - Sorry i'll stop with the politics. Last night a scary thing happened - well it wasn't scary just odd. I was in the takeaway and two blokes, skin heads, matching ralph lauren shirts, and black trousers started taking the piss out of me. The asked me if i liked my skateboard cos it was going to be on fire soon. I thought this behaviour stopped at school, which was the last time i expereinced something like this, and so i was a little shocked and wasn't sure how to react. How i should have reacted was to not say anything and leave quitley and then run like the wind. But did i do that ? No. I had drunk alcohol. I've been making tapes for the USA too one for tic tac girl and the other for tindersticks girl. You know who you are but with one thing and another i have lost your addresses... Sorry if thats list abuse too. But look a long email so i'll stop. love Nigel Love +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Smooth Operator
by David White 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Howdy folks, It's been a while since I last posted, nothing much to say or to tell you I suppose. I'll cut to the chase: I want your reviews of the gigs. I've added a new section on www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk specifically for gig reviews, (past or present), and I need your contributions. I've set the ball rolling by putting in the (Glasgow) Herald's favourable review of the Dunoon gig, (did they really play Smooth Operator?). Go to the site, click on Interviews and select the Gig Reviews link to read it, and for instructions on how to send me your reviews. Don't be shy now, if you're lucky enough to be going to a gig, then be good enough to share it (or at least your opinions of it) with the rest of the world. I'm not going to any shows myself, I'm boycotting them on account of all of them being over 25 miles away from where I live and my reluctance to rely on late night trains, and I suppose cos I'm skint if I'm being honest. I still haven't heard Jonathan David, I'm assuming Mark Radcliffe will have played it at some point but since Radio 1 saw fit to shift him an hour earlier, I always forget to listen to his show, and I don't listen to John Peel although I'll be making an exception next Tuesday (19th) when B&S do their session, it is Tuesday isn't it? Apparently the party I voted for won the election, the Apathy party polled over 40% of the vote without even trying. Why can't you vote on the internet yet, is it any wonder nobody votes when you have to walk 3 miles to the local polling station? Or even bring the polling stations round the streets like the ice cream vans. Apparently some wise guy voter went into the polling station and instead of crossing the boxes wrote Wank, Wank, good Guy, Wank instead. Very amusing in a Chewin' The Fat kind of way. 15 minutes passes quickly when you're talking pish... David White david(a)djwhite47.freeserve.co.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 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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