January 2006 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: hey hey we're not the monkees
by Ian Moore 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

I read a great article in a scholarly journal the other day. It was saying that George W. Bush is A GOTH. Apparently his fear of Osama Bin Laden is similar to the kind of spectral fears you would get in Gothic novels back in the past. I am looking forward to seeing GWB hanging out with the disaffected goth-metallers who loiter in front of the Central Bank here in sunny Dublin. I'm going to be doing some hanging out of my own soon enough. Do you know that Belle & Sebastian? They are coming to old Dublin town, and some of us are going to see them. The early bird catches the worm, as it were, and we have all ended up with tickets for the Sunday night concert. During the day on Sunday there is talk of heading out to the Botanic Gardens on de northside to look at the plants and stuff. Then we will stroll down to Phibsboro for food and pints, before rolling down to the gig to cause trouble. Does any of this appeal to you? If so, drop me a mail. rock on, DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Belle & Sebastian News Message - North American Tour Onsales, plus UK chart and TV stuff (fwd)
by Linda Kerr 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Forwarded msssage, lots of content... especially for armchair old skool fans Geoff, we looked and fell off our armchairs.. hardcore sinisterenes bless. Linda ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:41:36 +0000 From: Belle and Sebastian <mailinglist(a)belleandsebastian.com> Reply-To: "listmanager(a)banchory.net" <listmanager(a)banchory.net> To: "lulou(a)crockery.org" <lulou(a)crockery.org> Subject: Belle & Sebastian News Message - North American Tour Onsales, plus UK chart and TV stuff Most of the remaining shows on the North American Tour go onsale tomorrow. Check www.belleandsebastian.com/tour.php for details of specific shows. Due to the alarming speed that the NYC and DC shows sold out, I'd recommend getting in early. It seems we still have it. Either that or the scalpers think we do. Also, a reminder that B&S make only their second appearance on "Top Of The Pops" this Sunday at 7pm on BBC 2 (UK only). It seems these things only come around every 5 years. It's also worth watching to see The Go! Team, and see if you can spot Will Young's black eye, despite his label's better efforts to hide it. (You can probably tell it's already been recorded can't you? We nipped down after Sunday's Glasgow show, shot it, and were back in time for the Monday show). The appearance is if course to celebrate the impending chart smash that is "Funny Little Frog". You can still help us beat Son of Dork, if you haven't yet, by buying the single from your friendly local retailer or iTunes, or by downloading the live version from http://www.7digital.com/stores/productDetail.aspx?shop=185&product=23353&si… or texting BELLE FLF to 81330. Before Sunday. Remember, if using an adult's phone or credit card, put it back EXACTLY where you found it, or you'll get caught. Finally, news regarding the transmission of "The Music Show". As previously reported, it is to be broadcast on BBC 2 Scotland at 10pm on January 31st. Non-Scottish Britons of a digital bent will be delighted to learn that BBC 2 Scotland can be viewed on Sky Channel 960 and NTL Channel 927. So there you go... To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit http://www.belleandsebastian.com/mailing_list.php +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: o (sinister) canada
by layla 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

dear sinister, my name is layla. i have been lurking on this list for about a year or so. i'm the reticent type, i rather like lurking. i've enjoyed your company. why now de-lurk? (aside: i like that "de-lurking" is an accepted expression on this list.) the reason is pragmatic. my boyfriend and i are planning to attend both the toronto and montreal shows in february, following the tragic miscalculation of 2003 (we were living in montreal at the time, and decided not to go to the toronto show -- the band's only canadian stop during the dcw tour. i don't really remember why). we've since relocated to toronto. is anyone else planning to attend both shows? would you maybe be driving from toronto (february 25) to montreal (february 26) and back again? we'd be more than happy to subsidize gas money (or split the cost of a car rental). i'd also bring cupcakes. who could refuse that offer? you may have reservations about taking six-hour road trips with complete strangers, possibly along the line of my boyfriend's own concerns when i first broached this plan ("what if they're serial killers who prey on belle & sebastian fans?"). rest assured, we're entirely non-threatening. please e-mail me off-list if you think you might be interested. neither show is sold out yet, as far as i know. thanks, layla __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.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: Taxxi for the lady?
by Geoff Sheridan 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

http://whiterosemovement.co.uk/ eagle Eyed old skool sinisteRines mIght Catch A gliMse of A CertAin Rebel in kiTten Heels. formUrly of this paRish. watch the videos. search for sinister in the forum. i could have fallen orf my chair. g +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The dogs in the 'stow
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.nhs.uk 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hi guys, It's been a while, no? Just around Christmas time I was at a bus stop, and was listening to my iPod which was in my pocket. I cannot remember now what exactly happened: it may have involved me trying to re-adjust the orientations of the testes, but anyway it ended up with the iPod falling out of my pocket and onto the ground. A lady who was also at the bus stop gasped in horror, possibly because of the iPod or possibly she was just appalled by my public scrotum antics. Either way, "Love is an arrow" by Aberfeldy was still going strong so I got on the bus. Then, just after the sweet guitar break and the chap was about to start the verse again, the iPod skipped to the next song, and the next, and the next, without actually playing any of them.. While I was glad that it skipped the Barry Manilow for me I took issues when it bypassed "The kids aren't alright". So I turned it off, to try and talk some sense into it. And, unfortunately I think Aberfeldy has become its swan song, as the iPod failed to start again in any meaningful way. So now I'm commuter-musicless. This is where I turn to you, my lovely sinisters, for advice. Should I.. A) spend a load of money on another mp3 player (but perhaps one that is more rugged than the iPod) B) get a new fangled mobile phone that plays mp3s, this seems the ideal option at the moment if I can get a good one for FREE. C) go OLD SKOOL, and get myself a cassette-tape walkman (it ain't gonna skip on me that's for sure!) D) read on my way to work instead of listening to toons. E) bring a guitar and sing on the bus to work F) get a girlfriend who will serenade me instead G) get a new iPod, and a girlfriend who will do future bodily adjustments for me while I hold the iPod firmly in my hands. H) quit work and listen to tunes at home all day. I) none of the above (other suggestions: ______________________________________) Any tips appreciated. Thanks, Ken P.S.: An update for those who follow my epic struggle to find a B+S ticket in either London, Glasgow, or Cambridge: I still don't have a ticket for either London, Glasgow (now past), nor Cambridge. However in a dramatic switch of fortunes, I do now have two tickets for Brighton, anyone want to come with, serenade me on my train journey down? ********************************************************************** 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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Re: Sinister: the "If You're Feeling Sinist*r" live album
by honey＠missprint.org 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Lawrence Mikkelsen wrote: > Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone who does have the good luck to live in > a country where the iTunes music store is available would be at all > persuaded to re-encode the tracks as good old fashioned MP3s and > upload them somewhere, or else put them onto a CD and post them to New > Zealand.* Motherly Duty here. Lawrence's geographical dilemma noted, we need to resolve such requests with the almost biblical list rule not to trade copyrighted material via the list: we could debate the ethics of free music trade for aeons (don't! I do it enough in my head) but the issue is legality, which often doesn't correspond directly with morality, and just might threaten the continued existence of the list if handled wrongly. I'm not a lawyer, so my suggestion here is if you're going to request content that's pay-for in at least one country, then a commitment to give the equivalent amount of money that you would have had to pay to the band, record company (although I expect they have no mechanism) or somewhere worthy would be a good one, and one I bet the band would be happy with at least. It would show good intent. If you're stuck for a good charity, I can make a suggestion for a particularly B&S themed one: http://www.meresearch.org.uk Also quite selfish, because, if you help them find a cure by contributing, it'll make me well enough to fix the archives. And on that theme, here's an interview/article about the band from The Times last week, including his rough time with ME (the disease, not me): http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-1982088,00.html Excerpt: Murdoch talks about when he fell victim to ME in his early twenties, when he abandoned his degree at Glasgow university and lived with his friend Michael. "He was also part of the city's ME hardcore," he smiles. "It was here that we turned into characters from Last of the Summer Wine, reflecting wistfully on our better years!" ... It's as though the energy denied Murdoch in his ME years is now the creative fuel that runs his life in Belle and Sebastian. Contrasting here and now with there and then, he likens himself to Prince Caspian in C.S.Lewis's "The Silver Chair". "He's strapped to this chair for years. Eventually, when he breaks the enchantment, he's rescued. It's not as though there aren't bleak times ahead - but from then on, everything to him is a game. Because he escaped the chair." Kind of a pity actually, as I'm just re-reading the Narnia books to see whether C.S.Lewis was actually a sexist pig as alleged or a good storyteller, and I'm only halfway through that book. Grr! Spoiler alert. But I'm all for breaking chairs. Be good, Honey x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: the "If You're Feeling Sinist*r" live album
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hello I posted about this a while back. I'm trying to track down a copy of the officially-released live version of "If You're Feeling Sinist*r" which is for sale on iTunes. I live in a country where the iTunes music store in unavailable, so I'm unable to legitimately purchase said album. (And don't even get me started on how this pisses me off - for heaven's sake _ I would GLADLY pay for the damn thing if Rough Trade, or B&S or whoever, had actually thought through the distribution a little more carefully and not put the files up in a proprietry format available to a handful of countries ... jeeze ...) It's bad enough knowing your favourite band will never come to your country to play live, but to not even be able to download a live album because of where you live is ridiculous. OK, rant over ... Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone who does have the good luck to live in a country where the iTunes music store is available would be at all persuaded to re-encode the tracks as good old fashioned MP3s and upload them somewhere, or else put them onto a CD and post them to New Zealand.* Hope life is treating you well, wherever you are ... Toodle pip! Lawrence * I should point out that, as a rule, I'm totally against this kind of piracy. I have literally thousands of CDs, and have purchased every single other officially released B&S thing to date. But what am I supposed to do? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "Funny Little Frog" single question
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

So to interupt transmissions for something so trivial, but ... I'm wondering if anyone else is having issues with getting copies of the FLF single from outside the UK? I pre-ordered the CD and DVD from amazon.co.uk a few weeks back, expecting it would have been sent on Monday, and it's still being listed as "usually ships in 4-5 weeks". WTF? Have there been distribution issues? Or am I just unlucky. Feeling ... very ... frustrated 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 +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Broken Family Band
by davie kerr 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Well Hullo There Peeps! i'll keep this short and as tasteless as possible. just bought tickets for the truly tremendous The Broken Family Band for their march gig @ glasgows abc. i've been aching to see them live for quite some time but have never managed it. has anyone on the list had the absolute exquisite pleasure of seeing this band in action? anyone else planning to head along to any of their upcoming shows? and for a little bit of content........how was the second stint for Scotlands Finest @ abc last night? outta here davie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Sukie in the Kailyard
by P F 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

I remember walking through Glasgow's stone canyons of air and light, one January day. It feels like it was morning, but in Glasgow that means afternoon. I was talking to Cookie and RJG about the history of Scottish pop. Who were the best, the top 10, the forgotten favourites? We named many names - JAMC, Altered Images, Rod Stewart, the Commotions. I was reminded of that day, that hour, a little, when I read, just now, on paper, this review. -- Belle And Sebastian, ABC, Glasgow The wonderful wizards of odd By David Pollock Published: 17 January 2006 Almost exactly a year ago, a phone poll conducted by the Scottish entertainments magazine The List established that Scotland's favourite band ever was Belle and Sebastian. This tells us one of two things: either that, in the face of stiff competition from Simple Minds, the Bay City Rollers, Primal Scream and Franz Ferdinand, the national consensus is that the Belles are on a pedestal of admiration all of their own, or, perhaps more cynically (but certainly more credibly), they simply possess a fanbase whose kamikaze commitment to the cause outweighs all others. In much the same way as The Smiths before them (even though the two bands are largely incomparable, musically), Belle and Sebastian draw a crowd of fans who are bookish and polite, and who measure their general ordinariness against a healthy sense of mild disaffection. In Glasgow, and particularly in the studenty nexus of Byres Road and Great Western Road, for example, these acolytes may be identified by their devotion to the retro style of bandleader Stuart Murdoch and his long-departed cellist and muse, Isobel Campbell. Thick-rimmed glasses, hand-knitted scarves and well-thumbed second-hand copies of novels mentioned by Murdoch on his online blog are vital ingredients of this West End coffee-shop look. It's a fact that Murdoch must recognise only too well. Towards the end of this show, he asked for the house lights to be put on, only to remark that the reflection from so many pairs of spectacles was dazzling him. Could all the boys kneel down out of sight, he wondered, to afford him a nicer view? Not wishing to offend, of course, they consented. There's something about watching a Belle and Sebastian gig that feels like being let in on a big in-joke. So non-exclusive are the band that anyone may join in, yet the fact that most people just don't get the gag is conversely what keeps only those of a certain sensitive, leftfield taste interested. Still, that amounts to a lot of people: this was the first of three fully subscribed nights in this large venue. There was a little something for everyone involved, but Murdoch, his co- vocalist and guitarist, Stevie Jackson, and the coterie of musicians, sometime backing vocalists and occasional string-section players who form the rest of the band (seven full-time members, five part-time players) were largely preaching to the converted. In their six-album history (seven, if you count the soundtrack to Todd Solondz's film Storytelling), they have had many stand-out songs, yet to focus on more obscure album tracks and unheard songs from the forthcoming album, The Life Pursuit, didn't invite new ears to listen. Still, many of these new songs were the more memorable, like the tight stomp of "White Collar Boy" or the winsome "Sukie in the Graveyard" , about a student who was so poor that she had to stay in the attic of the nearby School of Art. Despite the customary lack of volume in their live sound (a good or a bad thing, depending on the track), the between-song asides from the softly- spoken Murdoch and the more laddish Jackson reveal them to be as amusingly odd a couple as ever. Informing us that we could download The Life Pursuit to help us sing along, Murdoch produces a vinyl copy of the record to check the lyrics, while Jackson half-sings, half-mutters his own version of "I Belong tae Glasgae" to fill the dead air. Indeed, the pair's dancing to the wonderful "Electronic Renaissance" was an uncategorisable highlight. The airing of the more well-known "I'm a Cuckoo" and "The Wrong Girl" may be interpreted as sops to the less hardcore fans. But a single encore of "Judy and the Dream of Horses", which saw Murdoch invite a fan to sing onstage only to find himself upstaged by a word-perfect rendition, rather poignantly summed up how much more this band mean to anyone who's actively devoted to them. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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