April 2007 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Shadowy Cabals R Us [PICNIC AHOY!!!]
by Hewitt, Stephen 25 May '07

25 May '07

ello babies The other day it crossed the collective hive mind of the 12 ft lizards that lie unsleeping, deep in the depths of the ocean of sinister, that this August sees the TENTH BIRTHDAY of this list and that appropriate celebrations should take place. Also that WORD of these celebrations should be spread FAR and also WIDE to gather in those who have strayed from the fold, to the whole variety of Other Places, so we can all come together to have a jolly good time, and probably get too drunk. AND LO, the details are as follows: Saturday 25th August GRATE BIG BIRTHDAY PICNIC Primrose Hill That London Followed by dancing all night at Tigerw@nking: THE RETURN, hopefully at the Union Tavern, Kings Cross Road. So, y'know, pass it on innit. xoxo CarsmileSteve DISCLAIMER: **************************************************************************** For the latest City Lit news & information, please visit our website www.citylit.ac.uk **************************************************************************** The City Literary Institute Registered Office: 1-10 Keeley Street, London WC2B 4A Registered in England no: 2471686 Registered Charity no: 803007 *************************************************** PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE. *************************************************** This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information. The message and any files transmitted with it are intended only for the use of the recipient or organisation to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, no action may be taken on the information nor may it be copied or shown to a third party and you are asked to notify the sender named above. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where specifically stated to be the views of The City Literary Institute. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Splinter: wood spree (plus, bonus! LONDON DANCING THIS SUNDAY)
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.nhs.uk 06 May '07

06 May '07

Hey Sinister, It gets harder and harder to think of Belle and Sebastian song title puns these days, but today was another punny day, so I thought I'd write you guys. I like that on the Belle and Sebastian myspace page, in the "Sounds Like" section it is said that they just sound like their records. This makes them my favourite friend on myspace I think.. or they will be, when I manage to get round to befriending them, and if they'll have me. Because I haven't, "Faith" is still my favourite friend on myspace, she's quite a funny girl, you know the kind who is adorably clumsy and disorganised.. she kept trying to send me a link to this website that apparently would make me loads of money, almost every other day, but she always gets it wrong and ends up sending me the same link each time. If she didn't live so far away, and were real, I would have gone and given her a hug and tell her that it's okay. Oh well. Do you guys have plans this Sunday? If not, you should come to this dancing thing in London. It's going to be really great. ======================================================== INTERNACIONAL Pop music for true pop internationalists. INTERNACIONAL is an EXCITING NEW NIGHT that will bring you the best of super dancing fun indie and sunshine pop from all around the world, with strictly no world music! Tahiti 80 * Peter Bjorn and John * Morning Musume * La Casa Azul * Jorge Ben * Saint Etienne * Cardigans * Serge Gainsbourg * Tommy February6 * Jens Lekman * Cobra Killer * Gilberto Gil * Bertrand Burgalat and many more Get your kicks out on the floor from Tokyo to Stockholm, from Paris to Sao Paulo, from Glasgow to Madrid and more. First Night's guest nation: Sweden Plus QUIZ with Prize. Sunday 22nd April 7-11:30pm, £3 entry The Albany 240, Great Portland St, W1W 5QU (Right opposite Great Portland Street station, and walking distance from Warren Street and Euston) DJs: D-pop, Daniel, Ken C and special guest ===================================================== I have no idea who this "Ken C" person is, but I heard he's awesome. I've invited "Faith" too, so you might even get to meet her (she'll probably forget though, or get the venue wrong). See YOU there? Ken P.S.: Check out this link .. I've double checked and it's definitely the right link. http://www.myspace.com/internacionalclub ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and is intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this is not you, please forward the message to mail.administrator(a)uclh.nhs.uk. We have scanned this email before sending it, but cannot guarantee that malicious software is absent and we shall carry no liability in this regard. We advise that information intended to be kept confidential should not be sent by email. We also advise that health concerns should be discussed with a medical professional in person or by telephone. NHS Direct can also provide advice. We shall not be liable for any failure to follow this advice. University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (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: Hello lovers...
by stacey dahling 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

.... of music. Music lovers. Yeah. Hello! Any interest in makin' sweet love...ly music and saving the world AT THE SAME TIME? Ooh! I've gotten myself involved in helping to organise the UK's biggest music festival. It'll take place over the entire month of October, in loads of venues across the UK, and all proceeds will benefit Oxfam. It's cleverly called Oxjam. Last year was its first outing, and they made half a million pounds! This year, we're aiming for a cool million. Anyway... I thought I'd try to lure some sad yet soulful bedroom devotees out of their bedrooms to get involved. We're currently recruiting official event organisers, who will be all trained up proper-like, to put on some of the bigger events, or a bunch of small ones, or whatever their little twee hearts desire! There's only a few more days left to sign up for these posts, but you can do it here: http://www.oxfam.org.uk Otherwise, we'll take all the help we can get, so even if you don't want to commit to throwing a big shindig yourself, you can still get involved in other ways. You and your colleagues can get sponsored to participate in a 'work opera', for instance, where you spend an entire day communicating solely through song. Or you could dress up as a gorilla and deliver singing telegrams. Or you could fry up some banana and peanut butter Elvis sandwiches as part of a rock star luncheon. Or you could just volunteer to be my minion as I try to coordinate a couple hundred gigs in Glasgow. Phew! Won't that be fun! If you visit the above site, there will be more info and local contacts, or you can email me. I'd especially like to hear from Glasgow folk, as I'm bursting with ideas for events here, but I'm not supposed to put on any of them myself. Some of them even include our beloved belles and friends. Mmmm hmmm. Incentive enough? In other news, another festival was in town this weekend - Triptych - and some of us Sinisterenes were lucky enough to attend an epic day of fab music organised by the illustrious Stephen Pastel and friends. although I've lived in Glasgow now for coming on five years and see Stephen about toon on a pretty regular basis, I had never seen The Pastels perform, so it was quite a treat! There were tons of them on stage, too. They roped in loads of friends, mostly of Teenage Fanclub and Tenniscoats fame, and did TWO sets - an early, wee bit experimental 'quiet' set, and a full-on closing set at the late hour of 11pm (which was sadly more difficult to hang on for than I'd like to admit). It was pretty gosh-darn special! And in between we were treated to other fantastic sets from the adorable and talented Tenniscoats, the amazingly rockin' ladies of Electrolane, wacky local popsters The Royal We (featuring our very own wee Patrick!) and the quirky cool Pierre Bastien. Sadly, I had to work yesterday and therefore missed what was surely another amazing show for the Ballads of the Book, a super ace project combining Scottish artists and musicians. If you haven't heard about it, check it out here: http://www.chemikal.co.uk/news.htm There's a CD to be bought there too, so if you're willing to part with a few squid, there ya go! There's been loads of good stuff happening 'round here, with even more to come! Indian Summer is shaping up to be a pretty ace, so if anyone is looking for an excuse to come visit, July 14-15 would be a good time. http://www.indiansummerglasgow.com Yeah! Hope y'all are well! -stacey _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail is evolving - check out the new Windows Live Hotmail http://get.live.com/betas/mail_betas +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Danish/Swedish listees ... help please
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi there, Are there any Danes or Swedes on here these days? I'm likely to be in Copenhangen for a couple of weeks at the start of October, and will probably pop over to Malmo (and maybe Göteborg) for a day or two while I'm there. I know that's ages away right now, but I'd be interested in some advice about good places to hear (indie) music, addresses of good record stores in any of those cities, and recommendations of good Scandanavian music I should hunt down and buy while I'm there. As you might be able to tell from my last name, my dad's a Dane, although my Danish is pretty much limited to "hello", "goodbye" and "thanks". I've been to Denmark a fair few times, but the last time was with my wife, so I did a lot less record shopping than I would have liked. Replies off list appreciated ... cheers 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: From manicured hands...
by jo perry 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Dear children of the revolution, Another Sunny Day (this is content)and I'm sat pretending to mark coursework, GCSE coursework- GCSE English coursework to be exact. I have got as far as reading the accompanying notes. In truth i am being distracted by our B&S buddies, I think it must be the weather. I am on the B&S MySpace page, I am listening to the "standalone player" I don't feel alone at all and as i have said I am sitting. For a while I forgot what it was like to count B&S as real company, but here they come again extending Frisbee filled hand toward me and encouraging me to catch. and it all feels quite effortless. So, dust down your gramophone records, untie the laces of your training shoes and I'll see you down the park... That is all Jooftimestables xxx ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.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: This Friday, too: Exeter dreams pop (and other stories)
by Dimitra Daisy 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Dear Sinister, I don't think of you much these days, but when I do, I usually think of Ally Cook. Not for any particularly exciting reason but because he once said (back in something like 2001, and on an ilx thread of all places, if I'm not mistaken) that, if he didn't have time for Sinister any more, it was because of all the other directions it has thrown him in. I still had time for Sinister back then but still, it made sense. All the other directions. Well, today it looks more like "all the other directions that all the other directions that all the other directions that Sinister has thrown me in" but still I wouldn't be anywhere without it, or at least so it seems on drunk, emotional evenings (I still have the odd one of those) or when a song comes back to haunt me (usually 'I fought in a war' or 'It could have been a brilliant career' or perhaps 'Dog on wheels: something where Stuart's voice figures heavily, anyway). Or at least (and that is a fact) I'd never be where I am now: in a flat on Exeter Road (in Exmouth, Devon) where the sun falls through the bay window forming patterns on the carpet, listening to the Pines sing about the things that make my world go round. I wouldn't know who the Pines are, because I'd never have got a lovely pink and blue 7" in the post, sent by a kind Australian soul. I wouldn't know who coined the phrased 'the songs that make their world go round', either, because I wouldn't have got a tape from Richard the Lurker with 'Tout va bien' on it. I wouldn't have stood in the front room of a little house in Dundee and listened to it while watching the rain fall on the flowers. And this wouldn't be happening, either: http://www.exetergoespop.com/ All that I can say is that I'm glad. And that I have to go to the launderette. Until the next time, Dimitra Daisy xx -- Because "happiness will be our revenge" is the only thing I've ever seen written on a wall that I whole-heartedly agree with. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dimitradaisy/ http://www.sprinkledpepper.net/diaries/ http://www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "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 Sounds Of Industry.
by Gayle E. Anderson 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

Sinister. The weekend. Work is good. its much better, not working with people. Horses are easier to understand and I am not concerned in the slightest by their attitudes or the standard of their personal hygiene. On Sunday, Ken Chu informed me of his presence in Scotland. After establishing that this was not an April Fools I joined him for a pint. Or two. Or three. Or so. Then, Glasgow bore witness to Sinister vs Bowlie Table Football. Any comments? "..." Monday. A hangover prevented me seeing any of the morning. The afternoon brought nothing. The evening brought bowling and pool. 1-1 for bowling (although....my '1' was a higher score than her '1') And I won at pool. Today. Its nice and sunny outside, I can see this from my position at this desk. Sunny, with a bit of a breeze. In the background I can hear the radio, the sound of printing, the sound of the boys in the factory singing and joking. There is dust on the window sills and wooden panelling on the walls. Personalised comic strips, photographs, calanders, sponsorships, data control, drawings and a clock, that tells the wrong date. Facing these windows is a whitish rough cast wall, with one fire exit (that I can see) and no windows. The upper half of the wall is corrugated brown metal. In front of the wall bushes grow half heartedly, yet remain well groomed. The sky is clear and blue with but a slight whisp of a cloud that will disappear with the breeze. A parking ticket from Prestwick airport, below a software cd and a bluetooth headset user manual to my right, tells me that someone has been flying. Then I remember that someone is in Dublin. The business cards have changed, from when their appearance was imprinted in my memory. They've kept with the times, unlike the date on the clock. Time could be standing still, if it wasn't for the steady, continuous pulse of industry in the background. Sometimes, you just know when its time for a cup of tea. And that time is now. 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: Its where we live, when we're not at home.
by Gayle E. Anderson 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

Sinister. http://groups.myspace.com/sinistermailinglist That is all. G. 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: shameless advertising/free london gig/sorry
by Gayle E. Anderson 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

Sinister Right I win nothing ever So when I saw a competition to win tickets to see ARCHIVE in london...I figured: ach no harm in entering, its not like I'll win! But I did. So I have 2 tickets to see Archive ( http://www.myspace.com/archiveuk )in London tomorrow (thu 5th april) night So, either...I need a londoner (or someone en route to london from central scotland!) who wants to go or someone in the central Scotland area who fancies a road trip to london, doesn't mind going half on petrol and preferrably (though NOT essentially!) drives to share driving duties! I need to get back to them by 3pm today any interested parties can get me on 07729214268 or I can be got by email on something_sinister(a)hotmail.com Gayle ps if it comes down to it... its 2 guest list places... I can have the name transferred so...anyone who CAN make it should get in touch before 2.45 so at least SOMEONE gets to go! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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