June 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: yeah, go on laugh!
by Hannah Brown 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

well, my vote was completely void. stupidly i thought you voted twice. yes ok, stop laughing, i cant help my poor education. I was going to keep this to myself (forever) but i keep having strange urges to tell you all my mistakes and embarassing moments. i later had a lesson in politics and realised how little i know, infact there are probably many 4 year olds that know more about it than me. i also underestimated the high demand for t-shirts and have had a far better response than i expected, therefore they might take a while to be completed and the size may not be exact. can those people who e-mailed me give me their addresses (apart from brier coz ive got yours) then i can form a list to work from. cheers hannah i would go home now but im locked out, i will have to spend the day wondering and hope it stays sunny until my flat mate gets in. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: milk and cookies
by Chris Butler 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

so i'm talking with cotton mather the other day and he was mocking the legal processes of nabatu. so i replied tritely, "yeah, and john proctor's selling pentagram trinkets in gaol." B&S content: none, other than the rumour that someone is selling a "certain belle and sebastian" band member's socks on ebay... capitalism indeed - what would marx say? + senor droolcup [ there's something in the trees ] +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: pure & simple list abuse
by Milla.Gregor＠BMPDDB.com 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

I'm so sorry to abuse- but Mark I've lost your number please give me a belle about the bass guitar. I guess I can say something of value- were there any sinisterines at the Northern Soul night down at that little fetish bar in Vauxhall on Saturday? What a crazy place- Vauxhall is full of fetish bars. I just moved from there. This bar is called 'the Fringe' and as far as I can gether it's a mixed/straight one (the others are strictly for leather queens). Anyway. I think that this is the only non-fetish night that they have. A monthly. Now who's the weirdo! Funny listening to funky music surrounded by people in sober dress with good hair sitting on a bed up by the ceiling with bits of latex tape still tied to the bars about shoulder-width apart... Also (content!) I heard the new songling on the raaaadio (Mark & Lard) last week. I was not filled with undue enthusiasm. I think I only like it when the skinny man that is Struan sings... Take it easy Milla +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: News from Dunoon
by Miss Cressida Jane Darwin 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

i promised to bring mr ben ferneyhough (who has the thankless task of running one of the great tapetrees on the list) some news back of dunoon. the nme, linda and grace have covered most of it, but as i got one of the photographers by the stage to acquire stevie's setlist for me (and then kindly left him to deal with one of the road crew who seemed to think they might need them again - oops!) here it is in it's full glory: le pastie de la bourgeoisie there's too much love the magic of a kind word i know where the summer goes if you're feeling sinister jonathan david slow graffiti the model (my girl's got) miraculous technique simple things the boy with the arab strap fox in the snow family tree like dylan in the movies i love my car the wrong girl woman's realm legal man as you can see there really was a gap in the setlist! they seemed to be enjoying themselves as much as we were - struan was doing a particularly energetic little jig to "suspicious minds" and after the first couple of songs they really relaxed and seemed very confident. although, stevie was thrown for a couple of seconds when singing " i was looking for my baby" from " the wrong girl" and struan interjected with a playful "did you find her?"! Dave Wilson And The Uptown Shufflers provided good support and those going to the glasgow gigs may be interested to know that they are going to be playing there too. i'm not sure quite what mixed reactions the nme were referring to, but i spent 16 hours of the weekend travelling to and from dunoon and considered it more than worth it and i'd be *really* grateful if anyone can contact me if they hear of any spare standing tickets to RAH. cress xox ----------------------------------- Cressida Darwin c.darwin(a)sghms.ac.uk St. Georges Hospital Medical School Opinions expressed those of the author and not the institution +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: waiting for the e mails to arrive, slobs, photos, B+S thoughts
by idleberry 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

don't you just hate it when you're waiting for an e-mail and it doesn't arrive? Life with the (Tory) slob I live with goes on. He's been drunk all weekend, and smells, and every time I tried to clean the flat (down on my hands and knees, scurbbing away at the kitchen floor... Flash... its not like in the adverts you know... you still have to be a scrubber) he made more smell and mess and dirt. Honestly. I don't know how he does it. And when I asked him to clean the grill he said nobody else does, and I said well thats cos nobody else uses it, so he asked what the problem was... Honestly. Got photos developed. Some from TITP last year, some from New Year and Christmas, some from the boat trip I was on last week. When i get chance, they are going up on my site. I prefer take your carriageclock and shove it, to Jonathan David actually. I don't know why. However, one complaint. After hearing it once, the night before my final exam, it was stuck in my head as I tried to do my exam the next day. Which would be great.. if it were an exam in B+S. You lot do know about the B+S john Peel session on the 19th (or is it 20th?) of June, don't you? So theres the picnic, huh? I think I shall have to go. At least so you lot can throw things at me. I know a lot of folk from Jeepster are meeting up on the same day, and then theres a bunch of corduroy smokers as well going to the gig. Why not combine the lot and go together? Obviously, that'll probably make up about ooh... half the population of the Barrowlands that evening. I am looking forward to the gig. I suppose I could be really daft and ask what you're all wearing... I've decided I really want to have a purple wig, some fake eyelashes and blue contact lenses and just pretend to be somebody else for a day. Not on the day of the gig though. I have no money to get all those things. Okay, shall leave you to go and get ready and do the things you lot do. Idles... confused about what to do next. ===== 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 - 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: Mime-Version: 1.0
by Lynsey Callaghan 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

hello, first post to the list......will everyone hate me if I don't say something good?!?!?! Feeling a bit jangly as have just had a job interview today, no sleep and lots of coffee involved. No time to think up anything really good to say, all the good things I thought up while in the nursery have vanished now. One question, though: is anybody going to see B&S at the music hall in aberdeen, and does anyone know who anything about support bands???? gracias y buenas dias lyns ------------ Lynsey Callaghan u07lec(a)abdn.ac.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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Sinister: Space Boy Dreamski
by Mark Hester 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Dunoon gig sounded so good and much as I'm really, really looking to RAH, there are certain advantages to these smaller venues, ease of getting hold of set lists and so forth. Friday night saw me, my girlfriend Emma and new (soon to be ex-) Oxford listee Sarahsocks, together with her hedgehog, watching Preston School of Industry, new band of ex-Pavementee Spiral Stairs in the very small Point. Sarah interviewed said Mr Stairs. I contributed a question and Emma brought along a dictaphone, so it amounted to something of a joint effort. Sarah avoided the subject of Pavement but Scott introduced it himself, which was okay. The absence of support act Creeper Lagoon was compensated in a bizarre way by the band Oranger, Scott's backing musicians for the evening, playing a set of their own. PSOI impressed and depressed in turn. Scott's a top bloke and it was possible to see where the some of the rougher edges of Pavement came from but I have to admit that it's all very much in the shadow of Mr Malkmus. I hope to see the Foxgloves one day, in a loft or otherwise, if only to shout out the titles of random Lloyd Cole song titles and gauge their reaction, "Jennifer She Said" is my favourite.... Just looked at the BBC website's Sci & Tech section, as I often do and I see that Russian pop group Na-Na (oh! them!) are planning to be the first pop group in space. Ah, but they're only doing a Dennis Tito and going round and round, not going to Mars or anything important like that..... Quite excited about Reindeer Section actually. I think supergroups can be fine, provided they don't leave it until the twilight of their careers a la Traveling Wilburys. What *did* happen to Volume Two? Not quite sure how you managed to vote twice, Hannah....more details please, I'm intrigued....... mArk. _________________________________________________________________________ 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: Here we go again, askin' where I've been
by Julie 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Good morning! It appears that last July 11th I made a POP PREDICTION! I posted: "Lately I've been having fantasies about Belle & Sebastian covering Suspicious Minds, and I'm a bit worried about my sanity. How great would it be though?" Then, running across that song on a mix md again the other day, I tittered to myself. Then, I came home and went to #sinister and Gav told me that they'd played it! I AM the Miss Cleo of Pop! Trousers claims they played it at Bowlie but I was not at Bowlie so I certainly could not have known that. I stand behind the fact that I had a PSYCHIC VISION of a show that would occur 11 months in the future! Surrogate List Mum Linda said: "- no tension on stage and Isobel's hair was especially shiny." You know what makes a good hair conditioner? SPUNK. It's high in protein, makes hair shiny. Also, it may explain the sweat on the keyboard. I'd like to agree with Linda that the Sopranos should be required reading! Whenever someone mentions the Sopranos, I think of that book and not the stupid tv show on HBO. Once, standing behind Edie Falco in line at Tower Video, the checkout girl said "Oh, you're on the Sopranos!" and I dropped my copy of Smash Hits. I calmed down when I realized she was not a Scottish school girl. Has anyone seen the miniseries that was made of the book?? The only BBC miniseries I ever manage to see star a fresh-faced Ewan Mcgregor. That one where he wanted to get it on with Napoleon was really weird. The second season of Popstars in the US is going to feature a band with both boys and girls, and as far as I know this will be the first high profile American-born mixed sex band to take on the Billboard top 100. Being the good budding journalist that I am, I swiped a DAT player and mic from school and went to the open call auditions to see what the wannabes thought about this. The resounding reaction was: "I just don't want to end up like S Club 7!" To which I say, why?! One of my main goals in life is to end up like S Club 7, although not like Rachel, she's flaky. No one mentioned Steps, or Hear'say. What a bunch of losers. Jay posted about finding Camera Obscura on Winmx, but it was probably the wrong Camera Obscura. It seems the only Camera Obscura mp3 in existence belongs to ME (Swimming Pool) and no one has ever downloaded it from me. The other day I bought a copy the Re-Rewind single (for 99 cents!), and it said it was by "Artful Dodger UK". In keeping with the tradition of bands tacking a UK onto the end of their names, I will now refer to the Scottish Camera Obscura as COUK. COUK is gleefully close to COCK. Jonathan David comes out in the US tomorrow. Hooray! I've prepared my sleeping bag and will be spending the evening on the sidewalk in front of Other Music. Remember the NYC picnic, my dear friends. This is not the last you'll hear from me. xoxo Julie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Dunoon
by lulou 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Hullo I don't think anyone has posted about Dunoon yet. In fact, there didn't seem to be many listees that I recognised there, but it was dark, and we all had our faces turned longingly towards the stage. Firstly, it was great. I hope no-one is offended because they can't get to gigs, but honestly, it was a joy. They played for over an hour, and (according to the NME) played 20 songs. When we arrived in Dunoon, we went to the tourist office to try to get a cheaper B&B than the one I booked over the modern internet, but were told with great glee by the nice lady there that we wouldn't find a thing, as the town was chock-a-block with two weddings, a clan gathering, and "the concert". Shortly after, our B&B owner offered to put all four of us in the same room. Rock-and-roll! We turned him down, were very respectable, and made it to breakfast the next day. I think the good townsfolk of Dunoon may have been disappointed at the genteel behaviour of the fans. The ambulance which cruised around the streets was, as far as I know, unused. Although it may have been on account of the weddings. I won't attempt any detailed musical analysis, but they looked and sounded lovely - really relaxed and happy. Various cool-looking musicians at played string instruments and a flute, and the bloke from the front of JD played bass. He is, everyone said, "Bob from V-Twin" and I didn't catch his second name - Kildare? Anyway he was very cute and very good, and searching the archives shows that he has been mentioned on sinister before as resembling Rod Stewart, which I suppose might be true depending on your opinion of Rod. Didn't get any set list, but songs they played (in no particular order) Family Tree, Like Dylan In The Movies, The Model, Boy with the Arab Strap, Slow Graffitti, Jonathan David, Legal Man, If you are Feeling Sinister, The Wrong Girl, a new song about Stuart's car, and (at this stage our collective minds got hazy) possibly two other new songs, one of which started off with Isobel singing and Stuart taking over. They obviously sang more than I have remembered, and I am lookign frantically through the albums to try to jolt my mind, but we listened to "sinister" as we drove home, our wee heads bobbing happily by the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond, and that has confused me. Stuart writing a song about his car is proof that he is still simply divine and mad as a brush, although there probably are true rock (and maybe pop, and certainly country) precedents for this. Greater minds than I will probably inform. Stevie gave a resounding rendition of Suspicious Minds in the request section, and Stuart looked a little put out at the ecstatic response ("I might as well go home...") but it was all really good-humoured - no tension on stage and Isobel's hair was especially shiny. People were at Perth last night? How was that? We are going to Dunfermline tonight, which is seated, Katrina says. Apparantly the set list is not going to change much, so maybe I will be able to give a better account tomorrow. I will take a notebook. Jonathan David has been on the radio, which is why I thought it was ok to mention it. I am afraid we have no special promo copy :) But I need to try to listen to it again, as at the concert Stuart joined Stevie singing the last part, and that seemed to anchor Stevie a bit. I still wish Stuart had sung this song, no matter who wrote it. As for Mistopher Chris.. he sang like an angel and had a dog called Scampi on stage with him. Shortly after the venue went on fire, but we sat tight. The Dudley Corporation truly rock. Apologies to PM - I thought I had that dyslexia licked, but obviously I go a bit scatty when I am in the presence. Lloyd Cole was on the juke box in the Sinbad pub in Dunoon. Honestly - just squatting on top, taking swipes at everyone as they tried to put on motown. "What do you think of my albums?" he snarled. "We like the later stuff" we said, surprising ourselves. The Sopranos by Alan Warner should be compulsory list reading. But I don't want to push my luck. Linda xxx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Do you want blood?
by Dairy Fairy 11 Jun '01

11 Jun '01

Hello, ooh I am jealous of people who went to the Dunoon gig. Although nobody has written about it yet..unless that's my computer being kind and blocking out their reviews so I don't feel jealous. Reading the nme review, I did find Stuart's annecdote about his mum wiping the sweat off his piano a little disturbing...what exactly was he getting up to on his instrument...;) oh, the story is at http://www.nme.com/NME/External/News/News_Story/0,1004,32624,00.html if you want to listen to an nme person's opinion, although I am never sure of their worth. Choo-choo charlie asked 'any plans for hometime' of people going to the scarborough gig. Well, i live in Leeds, and since the idea of sleeping in the train station sounds rather unappealing, me and my friends are staying in the bootiful sylvern hotel. Which is very, ahem, swanky. Well, it is painted red and white anyway. I do think they should put on a special late train for B+S goers. Most inconsiderate. Apart from that...ooh Jonathan David. Wow. I love that bit where it just all their voices and no instruments. The harmony reminds me of the way pop groups always sing accapelo ( is that how it's spelt?) on kids shows just to prove they can actually sing. hmm. But better of course. Anyway, think i've wasted enough of your time. That's the socially acceptable humble ending to post isn't it. Sort of shy and goofy. Typical B+S fan stylee, byebye, Gracexxxxxx p.s Is bob kildae an official member now or is he just filling in...Struan sounds like he was having a bit of a go at stuart d. ooh the gossip. --- And she spent the rest of the day separating the bits from the marmalade, or, if you prefer, the marmalade from the bits. Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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