December 2003 - Sinister

Sinister: it's soon christmas and little miracles happens (B&S in Göteborg!!!)
by Katarina Karlsson 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

Hej, This mail will be short, just in case anyone sinister near Göteborg (are there any?) have missed this: There are tickets for Bella and Sebastian at Trädgår'n 25e mars at: http://www.pusterviksbiljetter.com/event.asp Hugs :) Katarina P.S. Glad Lucia +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Sort of reporting back; or, How Belle and Seb Nearly Killed Me
by Joanne Hill 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

So this bowling thing sounds cool. Apart from the fact that I go bowling every week, so it's not so much of a novelty for me. But if I knew some sinisterettes round my way I would certainly be up for showing them how it's done. Ahem. I'm exceptionally happy, if it's true, to hear that bowling is now in the Olympics; it was in the Commonwealth Games in 1998 cos it's the national sport in Malaysia, go them. But then it got taken out again, boo to Manchester 2002. We (Warwick Tenpin Team) were in lovely Nottingham last month for the BUSA championships, my team mate got onto the national student squad, she's ace. She's the 7th best girl student bowler in the UK. I came 16th. (Out of 51.) Must do better. So yeah we were in Nottingham. Much twee-er than Coventry, though I wasn't very twee that day, wearing my bowling kit. We are hoping to get American style shirts soon, which will be nice. I liked Nottingham so much I went back twice, to the lovely Selectadisc and Fopp. Then last week I ventured even further north to my town of birth, Sheffield, for a special gig. But you've heard all about that off other people. I drove there, drank some coke while the others had beer, and then danced, stood in front of my seat, all thru the gig. Isn't Bobby the cutest! At Offbeat's after show party Stuart nearly bumped into me as he went charging past, but I managed to jump out the way. Stupid me. Could've ended up in a heap on the floor with him. Damn. But he signed my ticket anyway, and tried to talk to me, which is more than I can say for Stevie - I tried to talk to him and he wasn't interested. Hmph. Then I stood around encouraging a Bowlie friend to go talk to him abot the Rolling Stones, he wouldn't get up the courage. But he did in the end. On the drive back it was really foggy. I had hoped to get home in an hour (it took two hours going) cos at 2-3am there's no traffic, but not being able to see 20 metres ahead is quite a hindrance to going 80 miles an hour. So I slowed down, and passed lorry after lorry, and some crazy guy who kept over taking me and then slowing down, and swerving around in his lane, I don't know what his problem was, bloody road rage in the middle of the night! We had exhausted my tapes so one of the guys put in a tape of acoustic songs, really lovely versions of Delgados songs, and some Bright Eyes and stuff like that. Fantastic. Driving along the empty M1, feeling a bit tired but nervous of the weather conditions, all foggy AND raining, wondering when the hell we'd reach the M69 junction, the three lads all asleep, I passed a sign for Alton Towers...now I thought we'd already passed that...maybe, in this terrible weather, we've already died, I thought, and are destined to travel this dark road forever; but if we get to listen to amazing music like this all the way, that'd be fine. Then the fog cleared, I realised Alton Towers is much further south than I had thought, and later the sign for Coventry popped up, and we were ok. Still alive. A friend of mine went to the Norwich gig and he was wearing the same t shirt as Stuart, apparently the white Fred Perry shirt he always wears. But when I asked this friend if he bought the shirt *because* Stuart has it, he didn't reply. I'm not sure if he reads Sinister or not, so he may come and defend himself, but in the meantime I shall speculate. love, Joanne _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: requiem for the love i once felt.
by Jonathan Skinner 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

so my one night stand with the band was a week ago but i must say it was an affair to remember. i really can't think of a gig that i have enjoyed as much. well ok Yann Tiersen but that's a different story involving a different genre a small venue and being surrounded by nice looking french girls. i honestly didn't know what to expect from them even though i had seen them in '99 in dublin. i knew they had changed as a band but i really couldn't believe how much they had changed. they seemed dare i say it....happy. they were just enjoying the night ( wednesday at least) and the audience seemed to really dig it too. the venue i hated purely because the girl wouldn't take my £5 note even though i had just got it in a bar in Camden not 20 minutes earlier. ok perhaps i threw around the amount of F words with the reckless abandon that only a tipsy irish man could but it meant that i had to bum a tenner off my brother until we got out of the venue. damn expensive beer , it worked out at well over 6 great european euro's for a can of the stuff. plus my camera was taken away at the door even though it expressly said on the back of the ticket that camera's were allowed for personal use. Anyway despite the unpleasentness of the door staff and the staff in general and the long line to get coats back it was a damn good gig and i am damn glad i travelled to see it. i was slightly disappointed not to meet many other sinisterines ( well i met one and held his jumper and book "the enigma" if i remember rightly (not the jumper or the person)) and we got chatting for a bit but that was pretty much it. the set list was great and the only song missing was le pastie but i suppose i can't complain. the support band were pretty good despite the lead (i want to say singer) word artist sounding an awful lot like that skinner fella who "raps" with The Streets. The music was great though , reminded me an awful lot of a dublin band called the Jimmy Cake (although they don't have vocals). i think the only real downside was Lazy Line Painter Jane (i really must apologise in advance if you or anyone affiliated with you is on the list....i really am sorry and absolve myself of any real hatred of your person , just your voice and lack of knowledge of belle and sebastian and your overwhelming amount of confidence for suprisingly litte talent) perhaps the band should vet people 6-8 weeks in advance before "asking" them to sing at the gig. i think she may be the reason that we got a two song encore. it was nice to hear Sleep the clock around all jazzed up the way it was. London didn't really didn't let me down , i loved it. i didn't expect too and i was all for just getting the mid afternoon flight and going to gig then going to the airport to get the early morning flight. damn good thing i didn't. i enjoyed camden and i enjoyed walking back to liverpool street station at 4 in the morning and the only people we saw were two polite policemen who greeted us with a chipper "morning gentlemen" no searches for drugs or suspected A+L+Q+A+E+D+A despite our rather shabby appearence. i counted 16 times the amount that we were asked " you want some hash?"(which when looking at it was remarkably bad english considering we were where english is spoken proper) i decided that i would be insulted if i WASN'T asked cos then it would mean that i looked normal. oddest thing happened today. i saw a girl that all the way through school i really liked and the kick in the balls was that she really liked me as well. for various reasons we never got together. anyway i saw her on the bus today as she is back in town from edinburgh on account of family sickness and it was like we had never had anything between us and what was even weirder i couldn't exactly remember what i liked about her. yes she is still pretty cool and cute ( she has one of those groovy lip rings) but it felt more like "ohh we must do lunch mwah mwah" and now we are both in this entirely seperate existence when before we were in the same. it is rather odd but what is even odder is that i don't feel a tinge of regret at this. is this odd? i think it is. anyway c'est la vie. bowling meet sounds great but unfortunatly there are only two place in cork to bowl , "the collosium" and the Mardyke ( i notice in some quiz thing about Ireland on one of the missprint sites that the person was to find a street with Dyke in it and they were unsuccessful. there is a whole area of cork called the Mardyke including two roads with the name. they just didn't look hard enough......... ICH HEISSE SUPERFANTASTICH tanti baci jonathan +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'll be your mirror
by Youn Noh 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

I've been waiting, in vain, to hear reporting back from the Chickfactor shows, L'age d'or de pop. I guess people learned their lesson after last year, or maybe they were all wearing mascara and false lashes to live up to the glamour of the occasion. It's too self-revealing to cry, unless you're innocent. Or adults are supposed to shed silent tears. I caught a glimpse of my year-old niece in front of the mirror yesterday practicing faces. This was just after I'd carried her away from an electric cord. She protested loudly and then gave me a new look, totally different from her usual smiles, narrowed eyes and a sort of smirk. This is extremely valuable, to learn to pull off these reactions without thinking. It's funny because it's clear that she intends for her expressions to be social. I'm just starting this book on social cognition, and one of the premises is that grasping that other members of one's species are intentional agents enables members of that species to share knowledge, and cultural transmission progresses much faster than biological evolution. So I read interviews from the back issues of chickfactor to tide me over. There are great interviews with Isobel and with Jessica Griffin from the Would Be Goods. Reading them back to back, there was a nice contrast in worldviews, based on age and life experiences. I miss Isobel, too. (I think Stuart said he missed her first.) I like it when she said that she enjoyed being approached by girls her own age after shows. I wish I credited her youth when I was younger. This must have something to do with accepting yourself. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: NONE
by Em Ash 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

All right... In a week, school's over... I can't wait to get out of here! Studying in far away place way lost in the dark and impenetrable forests of Quebec is hard, really... Good thing there's lots of alcohol and guitars around... And some B&S... I think I'll write my first song soon... I'll call it «Alpha-ghetti, dirty plates and unpaid bills», since I'm looking at what's on my desk and being happy it's all over soon for a whole month... yay! Ah the joys of going back to good old civilization! By the way, is there a bowling thing in Montreal or Ottawa on the 27th? Sounds like a good idea... All right, back to psychology now... Emmash XOX _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger : discutez en direct avec vos amis ! http://messenger.fr.msn.ca/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Step into my alley, bowlers (***27th Dec International Sinister B owling Day***)
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.org 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

Did you know that 10-pin bowling is now an official Olympic sport, and England have now appointed an official committee to pick the teams???!? They're the BOWL SELECTERS. Wahey! --------------- Anyway. It's coming to the time of the year when (ahem) "traditionally" all sinisters in the world go 10-pin bowling, drinking and engaging in general rendezvous. So what are YOU going to be doing? So people from around the world start getting together now!! And plan some BOWLING innit. It's like a flash mob, but without the flash, or the mob, and with some bowling added in. Here's a rough plan for the London division... LONDON SINISTER BOWLERS GO BOWLING Date: 27th Dec Time: 14:00 Location: Rowan's Bowling - Finsbury Park If you've been before you know the drill. Rowan's Entertainment is just opposite the Finsbury Park tube/train/bus station (The bit where there's some erk.. Arsenal FC Merchandise shop lurking about), meet up outside that Tube station (or INSIDE since it's freezing) (The choice of location has NOTHING to do with the fact that I live 2 minutes bus away from there honest....) Then we can proceed to Rowans across the road for drinking and admire the miraculous bowling techniques of each other, and take it from there! There are pool tables and video games and STUFF as well as the bowling, how good is that? How does that sound? If you are interested give me an e-mail so I can get a rough idea of how many people are gonna be there - wow I might even BOOK SOME LANES. ---------- People in other countries/cities GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND GO BOWLING on the 27TH DEC!!! Yay! Ken ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator(a)uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: b&s! sheffield! riot girls!
by Kieran Devaney 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

jackson dancing to her jazz two badly dressed people got up on stage and sang 'don't you want me baby?' - murdoch said that sheffield is "[his] kinda town" apparently he went running the previous evening and composed something in his head. they didn't really know the words to 'don't you want me baby?' though it's worth noting that TONITE the human league are playing at the city hall, which is also where b&s played. perhaps they'll do a b&s song. there were seats in the venue, but as soon as the band came on everyone in the whole place stood up and stayed stood up and it went like this (setlist stolen from the bowlie site, kerpow): Passion Fruit in which our boys go all dick dale and rock out and such Expectations in which our boys rock a lot harder than the album version and prompt me to think 'when we had that list of stuff that had never been played before, was this on it?' and so on, nobody has really addressed this issue, though the song has been turning up on setlists all over the shop of late - am i getting it confused with something else Step into my office, baby in which our boys play their recent chart hit, competently Wrapped up in books in which our boys play a surely future chart hit with gusto. i like this song a lot, the lyrics are great, though quite why we're going to find stuart murdoch out in the country is beyond me Womens Realm in which our hero thought this was 'there's too much love' until the lyric about 'a torch and woman's realm' right at the end. afterwards murdoch sez that one of the bits of it sounds a bit like a song which i didn't know, the themetune to something from too long ago for me to remember. jackson and murdoch have a brief onstage discussion about being old. do you think they plan these in advance? Waking up to us in which murdoch frees himself from the shackles of the mike stand and does that quaint, kind of constipated dance that he premiered (maybe) on jools holland. our hero is reminded how good a song this is Beautiful in which our boys bust out one of their more melancholy numbers, complete with low level lighting and a hushed audience Travellin' light in which jackson has something of a crisis of confidence before playing this ok song ok - does he feel bad it wasn't on the record? does he feel inferior to murdoch? is he aware of how crap the lightshow is? all this adds a touch of melancholy to the proceedings - for what thought do we give to those who surround genius? are not their pains equally worth our time? does the gasman really love to drill? Photo Jenny in which we are reminded why we liked b&s in the first place You Dont send me in which we are prompted to wonder once more quite what 'you don't send me' actually means - this song more than most makes our hero think that anyone who has commented on b&s' more 'upbeat' new sound (and i think there have been a few) are wrong though Audience Participation - Dont you want me in which a long time is spent arsing about for a quite rubbish cover version of a great song. people who can't dance or sing and don't look very good aren't pop stars for a reason you know (it's because they can't dance or sing and don't look very good - i'll admit there are flaws with this) and in which the annoying man standing next to me who has been talking to his mate quite a lot actually decides he's enjoying himself and starts clapping right next to my ear, our hero turns the other cheek Dog on Wheels in which we all contemplate just what 'anything goes' would constitute and in which our hero imagines, if only for a second, a blow up dog on wheels Dirty Dream #2 in which our boys continue with the innuendo-laden ditties and our hero wishes they would do the fusion bit off the end of 'a spaceboy dream' as the intro, but still enjoys it Piazza New York Catcher in which our boys are reduced to just two and murdoch sings about eloping and running off and such - but with who stuart? and why? Asleep on a sunbeam in which our boys play things in the same order as they appear on the new album - clever that huh? and in which martin's voice is actually amplified so that you can hear it(!) Like Dylan in the movies in which our hero thinks if he has ever seen dylan in any movies, and concludes that he hasn't and in which our boys remember the red coloured album which isn't the soundtrack one If you find yourself Caught in love in which our boys rock the christian rock, sort of, and lay the diss on the war in iraq, sort of Roy Walker in which murdoch asks the stage hand for 'an occasional table' Stay Loose in which a strange effect is added to murdoch's voice, which our hero initially thinks will botch the song because he sounds too high, but actually works really well once he gets used to it. and in which our boys ROCK OUT - chu mentioned a city with in a city in nottingham which is called THE ROCK CITY and if there was really a THE ROCK CITY it would probably sound like this (i recently spent one of the worst weekends of my life in nottingham, including a visit to THE ROCK CITY and it sounds nothing like this, it sounds more like your mates sister's bedroom and looks a bit like laser quest but without the guns) Sleep The clock around in which our boys triumphantly play their best song ever and don't even mess up the words ENCORE Judy and the dream of horses in which our boys plot their entire career trajectory in their one emblematic song, starting off all faint and twee and with out of tune recorders and band members learning their parts on stage just before the start of the song and steadily build it all up to some sort of lush pop FIASCO with probably gun noises and a big fuck off twee prog ending which last about two hours afterwards there was an offbeat after party which murdoch and jackson and probably some of the backing musicians we don't care about were at and jackson was dancing to huggy bear and he was wearing a spotty tie and i was wearing a spotty tie and just for one second i glanced over at where he was dancing and he looked so content and i thought "stevie, you're alright" _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: another gig, another planet
by R.Playforth＠sussex.ac.uk 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Quick reporting back from Brighton last night. This setlist is not in the correct order at all but all of the following were definitely played at some point: bit from Storytelling Expectations Step Into My Office Baby Wrapped Up In Books Seeing Other People If She Wants Me You Don't Send Me Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying Dog On Wheels Jonathan David (I'd forgotten how much I like this song) Another Girl, Another Planet [The Only Ones] (despite loud clamouring for Hit Me Baby One More Time...) Dirty Dream No 2 Sleep The Clock Around (rawk!) Lord Anthony (lovely lovely) Too Much Love I'm a Cuckoo Slow Graffiti (not great) Roy Walker Stay Loose (electro-tastic!) Piazza New York Catcher Asleep on a Sunbeam The Boy With the Arab Strap Contrary to what I was led to believe, the show was in the Dome Concert Hall, rather than the smaller Pavilion Theatre. It was all a bit posh and RAH-esque. Hilarious Brighton hipsters mingled sulkily with excitable 16 year olds in woolly scarves. I lost my cloakroom ticket five minutes after arriving. We did not partake of any beverages, however Matt bought me some new badges. Didn't see any of Franz Ferdinand I'm afraid but they sounded pretty dull through the various walls. Stuart seemed really tired to start with, and only really loosened up during the closing songs. (Cue terrible dancing and gay tambourine antics.) Some amusing comments about 'it's Monday so we must be in Bournemouth... Brighton I mean'. Lighting was great. Chris Geddes playing the xylophone is possibly the sexiest sight ever. The band were much more comfortable playing new songs than old ones; Stuart STILL forgets his words to everything off Sinister. Swing Your Cock Around was a feast of rock action and from the new album I'm a Cuckoo and Stay Loose were outstanding - I think Stuart's voice just gets bettter and better and this album really shows it off. The audience were as subdued as the band at first, but got deafening when it came to requests - a fan of Le Pastie de la Bourgoisie was particularly vocal. Someone shouted at Stevie to 'get a move on' while he was preparing for Another Girl Another Planet and was roundly ticked off by Stuart. By the end there was mad dancing down the front which was good to see, and a boy in front of me kindly provided silent drum accompaniment/conducting duties the whole time. I sat down all night because Matt has a bad back at the moment, but this does not mean I am old and boring oh no. It *was* a schoolnight though... Right, back to dull December and work. But see Londoners soon maybe hopefully... love Archel 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 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: IKEA, mixtapes and snow: reflections by a Swede.
by a.s.t.r.i.d＠nme.com 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Dearest Sinisterettes, So, seems like about 90% of you have been seeing the lovely Belles live in the last couple of, er, weeks? My memory is bad, but I've read a lot of reporting back posts about lack of dancing, parties, setlists and singles. Very nice indeed, so thank you. When Sarah and Stevie were here in October, they told me they'd come here to tour next spring, I hope that it's true. I'm not saying that they were lying, I'm just saying that maybe it won't pull through. The, by far, best thing to call someone ever: Shitehawk. I don't know why, but it strikes me as incredibly funny and a VERY strange combination of words. Maybe it's some sort of crude way that's only funny if you're British or something, but what the hell. Also, it was Fred Durst who was being called a Shitehawk. Just for being really crap in general. Haha. I hate Fred Durst. He looks like a fish and is responsible for the likes of Linkin' Park. Hrrrrr. Last night, I went to IKEA with my mum and my sister. I know I'm Swedish and IKEA is typically Swedish, but, really, I love it. My very funny grandmother calls it hell on earth due to huge amounts of people, often with small children, with their trollies, trying to push their way through the crowds, i.e. knocking all the things you're carrying out of your hands and then grunt dissapprovingly at you for dropping your things. Sure, that can happen. Mostly, though, a lot of cute babies, ecstatic over fluffy toys and weird things that are modern and assymetric and will teach them something, um. And we bought stuff. A lot of stuff. Hehehe. Personally, I bought a carpet, two plants (big step for me, formerly known as The Plant Killer, known to kill all plants (cactuses included) but know Responsible and Realizing The Value Of Plants) and, er, 22-singlepacked Twix. Oh shut it. It was like, £2. How could I help myself?´ I then got home, and re-arranged things and cleaned up while listening to this great show on the radio, on once a week, called P3 Pop and I got to listen to an interview and lots of songs by this British guy called Patrick Wolf, he was amazing. Ah. It's always nice to hear something new. It's sort of snowy here now. Well, snow, but semi-melted snow. It's icy too (boo!) but the snow is sort of nice. It's very Christmas-y. Ah. I managed to get my Sinister Pressies out in time! YAY! YAY! YAY! I did it! I am trying to change you see. Some kind of pre-new year-revelation. I have to be a better person, for I am indeed living a bad life. Not bad as in a dangerous life, but not good for me in the long run I guess. So. I'm cleaning. I'm trying to do my work in time and not act as though I am Ruler of Procrastination Land. I send off things in time. I make lists of things to buy. I'm finally recording the demo as well, it keeps me up at night sometimes, just thinking how marvellous to have something of my own, that is completely there because of me, that I created. It's so strange. There's been talking about recording with Pelle, Amanda's dad, since last fall, but this time I know we're going to do this. We palyed sort of a mini-gig to him and he got all enthusiastic so it should go well. And it's good, because the songs I wrote a year ago were crap. Finally. I saw birds flying in circles for about a minute, just zooming around for the fun of it with the sunrise as a background. I don't know why but it puta smile on my face. They were just flying around, happy. And there goes the cliché about how free they are. Maybe one of them was a dictator/fascist type of bird and was forcing the other birds, maybe the slackerette teens, to zoom around for excercise. You never do know, do you? Ah well. I have to get my Swedish class now. It's not that much fun because we've just started reading Candide by Rousseau and it's doesn't seem like a lot of fun. Quite the opposite as a matter of fact. Christmas is a-coming! I say Hurrah to every season where you can decorate with reindeers. Take care, luv Astrid x --------------------------------------------------- Who would you rather be - Ted Danson or Kevin Costner? Fab: Who the fuck is Ted Dancer? Ted Danson. Fab: Oh, Danson. Nick: I think Ted Danson wears a toupee. ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname(a)nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. 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Sinister: I'm A Pigeon
by Stuart Gardiner 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

OK, let's see if this message gets through (my one on Friday seems to have gone out to the list, but isn't in the archives - strange...) Anyway, time for a bit more Reporting Back from Friday night. Some randomly-ordered thoughts: 1. Another great gig, good sound, good playing, good setlist, good venue. Finally, B&S can pull it all together. Shame about the curfew which meant there wasn't time for an encore, but that wasn't their fault. 2. London beer is waaaaaay too expensive. 3. Sadly, no repeat of Thursday night's balloon modelling by the drum tech halfway through the gig. 4. Still not huge numbers of people dancing, but a few more than the previous nights. Then I realised looking around the auditorium - all the people dancing seemed to be Sinister. Be proud - WE ROOLED. 5. I would list all the current and former sinisterines I saw there, but it'd take for ever. Hello to you all. 6. The Spanish bar is too small. 7. The aftershow was eventually fun. Initially I walked in and didn't think I knew anyone. Then a few beers later I realised everyone was hiding in various corners of the room. Cue two or three hours chatting to sinisterines, band members, management, random people I've never met before and don't know who the hell they were, and various others. 8. Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the after-aftershow party party, because I had to go back to my mate's house where I was staying, and wake him up at 3am to let me in. Thankfully he's very forgiving... 9. I reckon over the last five days in London I've consumed well over a hundred units of alcohol. That can't be good for you. 10. The version of Sleep The Clock Around wasn't, isn't and never will be anywhere near as good as the live version. Time to dance like no-one's watching... Oh yeah, I don't think anybody has mentioned this yet; the next single will be I'm A Cuckoo (hooray!), with B-Sides Travelling Light and Passion Fruit plus one or two others, and will be out on February 16th. Or at least, that's the plan at the moment, I'm sure they'll announce it formally when it's confirmed. And since it is (in my opinion at least) a much better and more radio friendly song than the Good Vibrations rip-off, it should do a lot better in the charts than number 32 (which the band were disappointed with, but the record company were mysteriously pleased about). Right, enjoy the rest of the tour you lucky people, I wish I could join you. In the meantime, I'll lurk for a few months, and look forward to maybe Glastonbury... Big Stu _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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