September 2001 - Sinister

Sinister: Evnin squire
by JENOWL22＠aol.com 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

Hewwo, Wow, the new Hefner album is swell. I'm going to become obsessed with it. I'm glad that I paid ten pounds for it. I set out listening to it on the bus from Glasgow to Fife because I go there a lot now, since I learned all about taking the bus by myself, and not talking to strangers, and how they won't believe you're a half if you wear a strappy top. I'm not a half now. There were these girl on the bus who kept asking me how old i was, and if the star under my eye was a real tattoo (which its not) and if I had a boyfriend and if I'd ever had sex and what I was drawing. Cause I was drawing pictures of naked people, because that's my new hobby now. I was sitting in RE class and felt like I should be doing something wicked so I started drawing SCENES OF GRATUITOUS NUDITY (in big capital letters as such things always should be). But obviously I never showed the drawings to the kids, because that would make me a pervert. But anyways, the new Hefner album. It was good because all the songs happened at the right times on my journey. So now Alan Bean will always remind me of dunfermline bus station, and Home will always remind me of Kincardine (which looks like Shit Street out of the Viz). And it's SO magical. I went to Dundee uni open day. I really liked it, I really liked everything about it there. I want to become a dentist there now and move away from glasgow. I always wanted to be a dentist, but now I know where I want to do it. Though glasgow is swell too. Do you think B&S would let me be in them if I asked. I can play the guitar, and the tin whistle and sing a bit, or I could just stand about. Only I think it would be a grate way to start conversation with people to say "yes, well I'm in a band". I always wanted to be in a proper band, except for I usually end up being in rock band who need an emergeny rhythm guitarist, who chuck me once they've found someone who fits the image better. My hair has a braid in it. It's all different shades of purple, which is my favourite colour. I'm going through a phase of wearing nothing but purple because it's grate. It's one of those colours which just sends thrills all through you when you see it because it's so perfect. Its grate, it's just magical. And Ribena is purple too, which makes it even better. I better go now because in five minutes my boyfriend (I have one of those and I recommend them to everyone else because they are amazing) is going to phone me. My gosh, I'm so happy at the moment. You know, apart from the obvious. I wish I could make everyone as happy as me right this second. I think you should smile if you're reading this, because when people smile, even if they're unhappy, just for a second the feeling of smiling fools them into being happy. So go on. 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 +-+ +-+ "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: Dundee: Mission impossible?
by Sunset . 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

I'm going to tell you something but you have to promise not to tell anyone. You really have to keep it a secret. Well, the thing is, I'm not all that I seem. Anyone who knows me probably me will probably think that I am a scientist. I mean I wear a white coat each day and work in a lab, so you would think that wouldn't you? But thats where I have you fooled. In actual fact I'm an independant undercover agent. My real dailey business is this: I spot other people who might belong to sinister; or who might like belle and sebastian; or just people who are actually spys. I like this little secret because I think if I was just a scientist I would be very bored, and so knowing my day has a purpose makes me feel good. I did once spot a real life spy. Of course it was only through my expert eyes that I was able to recognise him as such. He was wearing a dark rain coat, dark glasses and walked with a limp. I trailed him as far as the bus stop where I lost sight of him. He then, rather nimbly for a man with a limp, hopped onto the the number 22 bus. I sumissed he was headed for cover amongst the hustle and bustle of Dundee city centre. On a separate occassion I spotted a likely suspect running down the street. She was wearing a duffle coat and flares, so despite the fact she passed me by so quickly, I was quite sure that she was a candidate as either a belle and sebastian fan or a member of sinister. She could even be both. She missed the bus she had been running for which just confirmed my suspicsions. As I passed her I got a better look, and appeared to have just stepped straight out of a belle and sebastian song. I stored away the information for future use and continued along my way. I can't say I have been over successful in my mission. And I have yet to confirm a single sighting. I was becoming dispondent and was about to give up my mission in favour of something which was likely to provide more positive results,but just recently though I had a thought. Maybe there are other people in Dundee who belong to sinister; or who like belle and sebastian; or just people who are actually spys. But maybe they themselves are independant undercover agents. How am I supposed to track these people down? Here I'm really stumped. So I'm appealing to you all. If you have any ideas which will aid my investigation please let me know. Well take care, Rachel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: abscence, umm..., atp, RAH gig and music stuff.
by nafees saeed 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

hello. umm... it's been quite a while since i last wrote to this list so i've kinda forgotten how to do it. so bear with me. not that there's a any technique to simply writing an e-mail but, i suppose you need some form of structure...maybe you don't. it's just an e-mail after all. i don't know why i haven't written in so long... just didn't feel that i had anything to say. not saying that now i do, just it's one of those sunday afternoons. the ones where you just sit around your house not doing the work that you should be doing listening to music. so... umm. i'm fond of the word 'umm' both whilst writing and whilst speaking. i don't know whether it's actually a word, or just a sound... umm... it's good. a-ha(!) i've found something to talk about. atp. atp this year was rather good. actually no, it was very good. i know it's probably a bit late to talk about it now, but i figured i might as well. it was the first time i've been to atp and it was very good. i met some of you sinister people too which was nice. i met this one sinister-type person and we were discussing what a collective group of sinister-folk should be termed as. we settled on sinister-eenies or something like that. anyway, it was a rather good weekedn plenty of fun had by all i'm sure. i'm probably going to go next year seeing as though will oldham has been scheduled to play. they're having two different events next time aren't they? that'd be good. i suppose it means that more people will get to go... which is always nice. so hello to every sinister-eenie i met there. another event i went to that probably had lots of sinister-folk was the RAH hall gig. i would of liked to have gone to the picnic before-hand but i had my friends with me and picnics aren't their thing. i would have gone to the preston gig as it was nearer to manchester but it would've been just as much hastle getting to preston as it would've been getting to london. i've never really liked london too much before this trip but for some reason i came away loving it...well not loving it, but there was an extreme liking towards it. it was really weird to have such a strange sense of anticipation before the gig. i've never really had that before a gig, and it was a nice feeling. i suppose it was just the build up. it was good getting to the tube station then going in that tunnel thing towards the RAH. we didn't know where to go after that tunnel thing ended so we asked somebody who said "just follow the librarians" which i found really funny for some reason. i think the RAH was a good choice for a venue. everyone inside was just so nice too. people just sitting down on the stairs and in the corridors just talking and drinking, which is always good. we got there early, and the support...umm...person wasn't really up to much so we just walked around. we sort of took a sight-seers internal tour of the place. although the staff were a bit weary of us. which i suppose is fair really. we also did something bad. well i don't know if it was bad, maybe slightly naughty [i love that word]. we booked our tickets late, so we had to get seated ones, which we reasoned was better than nothing. when we got there we just walked down into the standing bit. nobody checked our tickets so we just stood there. talking to some people who went to the strokes gig in london a few days ago. the gig itself was amazing. it's the second time i've seen them, and i suppose this time was the best. it was like someone playing all your favourite songs in a really nice place. everyone seemed to enjoy it too. dancing and stuff. it was really good to look up and see everyone in the seats dancing away. even the ones in the seats right at the top...made me smile. another thing. there was this bit where stuart invited people to come up on stage and sing. these people went up, three of them i think. one who looked like morissey. i volunteered to do it, which is very unlike me. i think halfway through 'the state i am in' one of the ladies shouted 'sinister'. so hello to her. you did very well, considering. just in case you're wondering, i wanted to do 'get me away i'm dying'... the only song they didn't do, *sigh*. after the gig was good too, we met some people and wandered the streets of london in search of a kebab. we got one...eventually. nice weekend, best thing to do just after finish your exams. speaking of exams, i did mine this year. i did well, which i'm happy about. i started sixth form...which is a bit dull. i take my mini disc to keep me company... which i'm sure you're all really interested in. so i suppose i should talk about music. it's been a good year in terms of music i think. i've found loads of good stuff. one of those being will oldham. i jumped on the bandwagon at 'ease down the road'... which is a rather amazing album. i then went out and got the rest of his albums, all 673953347 of them. they're all rather good. although my friends make jokes about them, usually around the theme of 'a mule bleating to death whilst singing about sleeping with his sister'...heh. umm, this year i found the strokes too. lovely, brilliant strokes. i noticed some people on this list don't think much of them but i reckon they're rather superb. compared to a lot stuff around they're so good. another nme-loved band i thought were good, were the white stripes. i haven't heard their other two albums, but i think 'white blood cells' is rather good. what else did i stumble across? umm... ahh that magnetic fields album '69 love songs'. somebody mentioned it to me a while back...how good is that? i only just got it a few weeks ago, i don't think i've stopped listening to it since... i love that guy's voice. bjork, vespertine. that's another amazing album. it's not as good as homogenic, but still brilliant. one album i am disappointed with though is the new hefner album. 'we love the city' wasn't as good as the other two, so i was expecting this to be really good...but it's not. it's actually pretty bad. i think 'trouble kid'' is the only song worth listening to. i got the new smog album too, but i haven't listened to it yet. i love smog. right, i'm going to end it here. tonight i'm going to the twisted nerve anniversary party in manchester, so if any sinister-folk are there enjoy yourself. it should be good. tomorrow, i'm going to get tickets to go to a douglas coupland book reading type thing. he's ace. apologies for any spelling mistakes, or missed-out words. take care, nafees +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sober Ramblings
by Madeleine McNeil 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

There have been some cracking posts recently, some of them quite honest, open and personal. They have given me much to think about. For example, Dimitra said: >But there's not much else I can do. I feel inspired, then I feel >lonely >for not having anyone to share this with. And all this >unexploited >creativity, it's starting to feel heavy and sad. I read this post in the computer lab in my university library, surrounded by people sending free text messages and playing solitaire. I started to write a reply, and much in the was Will Salt's did, it all got carried away with itself and I lost control of it. I got a tear in my eye and felt rather choked, so I simply saved it, left the library and went back to work. Even as I was writing my reply, I realised I would not send it to the list, but I'm not sure why. It's certainly not because I want to project the image of being relentlessly cheerful, and it's not that I don't trust people (although trusting 1500 people you've never met is rather strange and difficult). Perhaps, I think it is because it's been some time since I have felt inspired to think about my honest deep down truths, let alone talk about them and share them. I am not a lonely person, without others to share things with, and I spent too many years analysing and discussing and digging deep inside. For the past year or so, I have put it all away, and while I sometimes may consider things about myself, I do not talk about or write about them anymore. The posts that I read and the people that I talk to in #sinister sometimes remind me of things that I used to feel before I shut up about all my feelings, and I'm not entirely sure whether this is a good or a bad thing. Of course, this in itself is yet another thing that needs consideration. Dimitra also said, when quoting Stacey Dahling (who is rapidly becoming my very own Super Girly Sinister Super Hero): > > Have you ever tried to explain the sinister phenomenon to someone? > > >isn't it difficult to describe what makes it special and ok and not > > >scary and full of perverts and strangers? we don't feel like >strangers >do we? why? And it is so bleedin difficult explaining to people why my phone line is always engaged whenever they try to call me as I'm chatting in #sinister. Or how I can say "Oh, I was talking to my friend about such-and-such this morning" and they'll say "Which friend?" "David in Australia", I'll reply. They'll ask how I know him and it becomes odd trying to explain it, because it's never how people imagine it to be. When Jeremy came to stay, I said to the Loved One "I know it will be perfectly OK". "No, you don't know that. You *think* it will be OK" was the reply. But it was OK, it was better than OK. It was grate. And then people ask you why you've forgotten how to spell great/grate. It's all rather tricky. I'm sorry. I appear to have gone on for much longer than I meant to. Thank you for baring with me. Good News: I'm no longer a member of the Sinister Jobseekers Club, as I found gainful employment last week. I'm working at my university taking notes in lectures for disabled students. It's a lovely little job and pays rather well, I think. But it does feel very odd after five years of not having paid work to say "Oh, better go or I'll be late for work". I'm enjoying saying it at the moment, but I think the novelty will wear off in about, ooooh, two days. But I'm sure it will last longer than my first pay cheque. Much Love Madeleine xxx Honourable mentions to Stacey Dahling, Jeremy, Will and Sir David. Oh, and Princess Honey, the star who guides us all (or something like that). _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: frank fontaine: abducted be aliens 1979
by chris perriman 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

i found this review of the moldy peaches at: http://yaleherald.com/archive/xxxi/2001.01.19/ae/p15bmoldy.html >Take Belle and Sebastian. Divide by zero, invert, hack to pieces. In the >negative space left over is the Moldy Peaches. > >The anti-Belle and Sebastian: not a Scotch six but a Manhattan two, not >lushly orchestrated but direct-to-four-track, not fey but scabrous. It's >indie pop with a male/female vocal combo, surebut that's it, except for a >few mics overloaded to explosion, a shredding, fuzzboxed acoustic guitar, >and a big boom of a drum set. interesting. i suppose they won't be playing the song 'new york city's like a graveyard' much now. that song just has too many lines in it which could cut close to the bone. and primal scream won't be releasing 'bomb the pentagon' this is my first post since the 11th of september i was going to post that morning but then i knew that nothing i was going to say had any value or meaning in the wake of those events. on the 10th of september a friend of my dad's was sightseeing at the top of the WTC on the 12th of september i was in a metro station when i heard a policeman say to his colleague 'there's one' refering to a young arab kid walking by and then searched him. the kid was doing nothing wrong, just walking from his train to the street. last week the mosque in my town had a flaming petrol can flung at it's front door. the mosque mohammed ali was married in incedentally. some things are never right with the world but now moreso than ever, i feel. i found all of your posts in the wake of the tragedy touching but could i especially thank martha (mh843(a)bard.edu) sophie tintori and carle groome for their amazingly moving posts. -----oO0=0Oo----- wow, i wasn't meant to be so down so i'll end with some PF style recommendations: a quite good book is Whit by Iain Banks a quite good (and amazingly twee) cartoon is Pablo the little red Fox - on BBC Choice, please watch it a quite good album is 'rings around the world' by the Super Furry Animals. the vinyl version is especially good - side C (it's a double album) plays inside out, that is you place the needle at the centre of the record and it plays until the needle falls off the edge, fantastic; also included is a 7" which just has one continuous groove on it so the few seconds of music on it loops round forever in a cool melodic groove, truly FAB. erm... did anybody hear the Bearsuit session on john peel the other night? they are the future of POP, i swear. and i heard about them first on sinister. see?, you are good for something after all. are you cheered up again? sorry... OOH! Look, the next post is by (put name of mystery sinisterine here) and he/she is great! go read it now, go on... Pez* p.s. pablo has a friend called fromage the frog. p.p.s. Hello to phoenixx_ala our latest new list member according to the sinister site www.pez.com - the wonderful world of pez ;) ivorytowers.8m.com - ivory towers records www.drpez.com - Dr Pez, Spain's premier fish doctor (i think) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Lots of words from a swedish 15-year-old girl.
by Astrid Wiezell 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

Hello sinister sweeties! Autumn (or do you say fall?) has really hit Sweden now. The trees are becoming more and more red, and leaves are falling down from the trees, and It´s becoming more.. chilly, and suddenly you see people with mittens, scarves and coats. It all changed over a weekend, quite weird... Anyway, I like the autumn, everything becomes even more beautiful and walking around in the park nearby our apartment is just really lovely, so many colours and that kind of crispy feeling in the air... Aaah.. Yesterday, I went on a kind of meet-up from a message board, not about B&S but a swedish lovely guy named Håkan Hellström. I´ve met him, and he´s absolutely fabolous. We were about seven persons (most of the people live in other parts of Sweden than Stockholm, so there wasn´t as much people as you would have wished for). It was a bit like a sinisterpicnic, but without the alcohol, the actual picnic and... Hmm.. I just realsied by writing that that it wasn´t anything like a sinister picnic (I´ve never been to one, sincie I am swedish, but anyway..). But we were just seven girls (none of the boys could make it!) that first met ouside a subway station, and then we all went to a big big big café whre you can just sit around, make badges, t-shirts and all that stuff, it´s really cool, It´s called lava and I love it. I made a couple of B&S-badges there a couple of weeks ago, they look dead nice. Anyway, we went to see a band that were doing a little gig in a record store and afterwards signing records and oher things for the fans. they are called The Plan, and quite good. The drummer was sweet, I got a hug from him, but he seemed a bit... tense. Before The Plan went on the ministage in the store, me and those seven other girls spotted a FABOLOUS swedish aritst called Magnus Carlson who makes almost disgustingly beautiful music. So we kind of went up and asked if he could sign some stuff for us, and he was the nicest person I´ve ever met I think. He was so sweet and just very NICE. He signed my songbook (a little notebook where I write my songs for the band I´m in. It´s just one yet, but I´m working on it) and wrote "To Astrid! Good luck with the songs! Magnus Carlson", and he drawed a big heart with an arrow through it. When I said goodbye I said liek "Well, good luck with your music, I love it so much, it´s such a fantastic record" and he smiled and replied "Well, I can only wish the same for you". I was really euphoric after that :) I also took a great chance yesterday. In that record store, which is a chain of stores that are really big, like a swedish HMV, a very beautiful boy works and whom I couldn´t stop looking at, he was so incredibly BEAUTIFUL. Later in the afternoon I went back to that store, alone, and lurked around looking at him (he and this other girl were in teh information desk). All of the sudden I hear his voice coming out of the speakers: "Dear customers, It´s know 16:55, and it´s only five minutes til this store will close for the day. We hope you´ve had a nice day, welcome back tomorrow" And hen I looked a the information desk, he wasn´t there! And then I see him. He is walking from another room towards the information desk. So I stop him and say liek "Um sorry to bother you but.. um.." and he say "Yes?" and I just take a deep breath and say "I just thought I´d tell you that I think that you are very beautiful" (Actually, I think I said something like brutally handsome or something, I can´t really remember) and he liek got a bit stunned I think, and then he said "Thanks..." and I got really embarrassed and kind of mumbled "Well, I just thought I´d tell you" and he just looks really stunned and say "Wow, thanks.. that was really really nice.." And I think I said bye, but I´m not sure... I just wanted to get out of the store, Oh GOD I felt terrible because I made a fool out of myself. [I´m 15 and he was mybe 23-25. People always take me for 18, but still!] But when I started to think about I got more and more proud of myself for having the guts to tell him. How often do you really do that? I know I would be realy happy if someone said that to me. I think people should do more stuff like that, impulsive, maybe, but you get really happy yourself but doing things like that. It really can make a person happy and I think we are to afraid of things to be embarrassing. It´s only what you think is embarrassing that really is embarrassing. Oops, I didn´t mean to write this much. What I wanted to write in the first place was: 1. Today I ate two soyaburgers. I´ve been a vegetetarian since the age of twelve, and one of them tasted really weird, it tasted MEAT, so I just threw it away and felt really bad, so I called my mum to ask her if we had any meatburgers in the fridge, and she said no, so then I felt a bit better. But I still feel like I actually ate meat. Uuuuuh! 2. When thinking about it, these are the two defining moments for me when it comes to music and the taste in music I have now, not counting the groups and artists I loves when I was 10 or 11 that is. I didn´t listen to very good music then.. Moving on: These are the two things that have affected me most (not in any special order) 1. When during a concert with Muse I got to play on Matt Bellamy´s guitar. Muse are my favourite favourite group after B&S, so it meant a lot to me. I´ve never, EVER, seen anyone who plays the guitar as well as Matt! He is incredible... I also got a cloth rose from Dom´s drum set and Matt´s waterglass. I still have it! Oh, yes, some purple stars from Matts pocket as well. 2. Hearing the first song ever with B&S: Mayfly. I got it on a mixtape from my sister who lives in England. She has just come home for christmas and made me that tape. I ran out and shouted "Is it a girl or a boy singing?" and she shouted back "Boy, silly!" And I kind of sighed happily because it was the most beautiful and amazing thing that I had ever heard, it was something new and really special. And I felt if it was a girl with a kind of.. um.. deep (not that you call Struans voice DEEP, but you get my point, right?) it wouldn´t be as good as if it was a boy with a very light and sweet voice ot would me absolutely perfect.. and it was. I´ve loved B&S since then :) Thas enough for me, I´ve talked far too much now. I love you all, Astrid xxx _________________________________________s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! 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Sinister: The Sundays
by David Moore 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

Hi 1484, By The Mark Apologies for misleading anyone, but the report of Peter Miller's demise was an exaggeration. Apparently although he did un- he has subsequently re-subbed. I take back all that stuff I said about him. He's obviously just trying to build the myth & fashion himself into a Sinister cult figure, don't yu know? The Hill For Company Lawrence Mikkelsen just beat me to a recommendation to check out the new Sodastream album. Maybe its my spanking new stereo but it sounds fuller and the vocals clearer than its predecessors. On the first couple of listens you think there aren't many strong melodies but its just that they're growers and the whole thing builds to a dramatic climax with the last few tracks. They're visiting Europe within the next few weeks & playing these gigs: Monday October 22 12 Bar Club, London Tuesday October 23 - La Guinguette Pirate, Paris with Life Without Buildings Wednesday October 24 Paradiso, Amsterdam Saturday October 27 - Krefeld, Church Sunday October 28 - Frankfurt, Dreikönigskeller Monday October 29 - München, Club 2 Saturday November 10 - Tanned Tin Festival, Santander, Spain w/ Labradford, Manta Ray, Mark Eitzel, Piano Magic and many more Thursday November 15 - Madrid Friday November 16 - Valencia Saturday November 17 - Barcelona So go & see what we're making such a fuss about in the flesh! The Strokes sound a lot like The Smoking Popes to me Many Happy Returns to Beans for his forthcoming birthday on Tuesday, which is apparently not the only thing Arantxa would like to share with him :) Props to the pulchritudinous Princess Honey for all her hard work in restoring the Sinister archives and photo pages. Now one can compare and contrast current list content with that of four years ago again. Reporting Back Albeit very late, sorry. A couple of weekends ago a room above a pub off Oxford Street hosted a Stylus event. Playing were The Relict (well, just Innes Phillips actually), Jinx (spot the listee!), Bart (from the Cat's Miaow) & The Pines (spot the P F). Sinisterines/former Sinisterines present: Joe, Pam, Steady Mike, Sez, Chris & Wendy Butler, Andy Dean, Madame Cholet, Carsmile Steve (who says men don't gossip?), Kevan & Josh plus indie toffs like Alasdair & James from The Clientele (with Daniel, one of their former drummers), Harvey Williams and Amelia (plus another Marine Researcher). All the acts played very enjoyable sets punctuated by the squealing of bus brakes from the street outside. Alasdair thought that a couple of Dr Pinefox's numbers were covers of classic songs. Say no more. Apologies to anyone I owe mail or other stuff to but its been all Corian(R) & ceramic hobs round here for quite some while 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: Midwestern Picnic?
by MyMomSays＠aol.com 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

Ms. Lindsey Baker and I were thinking of holding a picnic in Lincoln, Nebraska sometime in October.. would anyone be game for that? Or would it just be me and Lindsey playing pool by ourselves? Write me if you're interested. Mandee. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 guess I just wasn't made for these times ......
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 30 Sep '01

30 Sep '01

because everyone is still telling me The Strokes are the best thing in ages, and I still think they're "a little bit shit" (me, a few days ago) I appreciate that I'm opening this up again, but I *did* start it. And it's just a preamble for me to say ....... ***THE NEW HEFNER ALBUM IS GENIUS*** I can't understand the antagonism towards "Dead media". It is a brilliant, brilliant album. Sure, there are analog synths and drum machines, but the album has pop tunes a-plenty. Think Darren fronting Grandaddy, with slide guitar. It's really really ace. you'd be a fool no to go and buy it today. And I don't suffer fools ........ There are two other albums all 1500 of you need to go out and buy, too. The first is "The Hill For Company" by Sodastream. I suspect this will most likely be the least promoted album of the year, and will slip by without anyone really noticing it. But if you like heartbreaking acoustic guitar pop, fragile vocals, nice production etc. etc., you should check it out. "Looks Like A Russian" was a real highlight from last year, and this one doesn't disappoint. David Moore and Katrina House, I'm sure you concur, right? The other one is "Slum Clearance" by The Siddeleys. The Siddeleys are a late 80's, female fronted guitar pop band, sounding, musically, a wee bit like The Smiths. They made three singles, recorded two Peel Sessions, and despite being potentially "the next big thing", they broke up soon after. This 16 track compilation rounds out their entire recorded output, and is really really good. Check out www.siddeleys.com for more information if you're interested ....... but it's great, I swear. I appreciate that this post has amounted to little other than a record review. Sorry ... I am tired, and a bit frizzled by the SPRING SUN (ha ha Northern Hemispherians) and am about to fall asleep with a good book ...... Plus, I've been organising wedding stuff all day, and am feeling a bit out of it. Stress stress stress. OK, I'll shut up now ....... Lawrence +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Chicago Area Picnic? Anyone interested?
by JAMES GILMER 29 Sep '01

29 Sep '01

Hello Sinister peeps, I was just wondering, after the success of the Great Lakes Sinister picnic, whether anyone was up for a Chicago Sinister picnic before the snow flies. At the moment, I'm thinking that it's best to give people two weeks notice, so I was thinking of Saturday, October 13th as the picnic date. This is all pretty variable, but that seems like a resonable day. If anyone's interested then *please* drop me a line ASAP, as I'd like to know whether enough people are interested to be bothered doing this. I can think of at six people in the Illinois area, so even that is enough to have a nice little get together. Of course, anyone from farther away who wants to come along is welcome, and anyone from Michigan or such that needs a ride could probably find a free spot in my car. Let me know what you think Cheers! Jim _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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