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Sinister: "Avert your eyes children, he may take on other forms."
by Lawrence Mikkelsen 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

OK, so it's been a while since I last posted ... probably six months since a pithy post asking for Melbourne listees to recommend record stores, which culminated in a trans-Tasman Sinist*r picnic on a lovely sunny day in early April. (Hi Amy, Helen, Jim and Neil ...) Before that ... well, jeeze, nothing since the end of 2001, IÕm sorry. OK, I'm rambling already, but this is Sinist*r, so I guess that's allowed. Besides, I need to ease into this, as one eases oneself into a hot bath. Slowly, gently, but purposefully. (And trying not to burn ones nads.) For those who fail to remember me, or joined since I went into exile, I'm Lawrence, from New Zealand, and I used to be pretty vocal on the list, back in 2000/2001. I would like to say that my rapid decline in posts over the last few years had something to do with exciting developments in my life. I did get married (where "I Could Be Dreaming" probably got it's first public airing on these fair shores thanks to a certain other listee, Scott Mannion) but really, I just never get to use the computer now 'cause Vanessa's (end result of above-mentioned marriage) is always on it writing essays and doing some sort of research or other. (sigh). I still read the posts, but ... well, as Morrissey said, "these things take time." Anyway ... it's nice to be back. What's even nicer, though, is for Belle & Sebastian to be back, and this, really, is what's given me the boot up the arse to post again. I should say that I loved "Fold Your Hands Child ..." and always get a bit annoyed when people slag it off. It's a great record, as were the two '01 singles. "Jonathan David" is still probably my most played B&S record ever, and never fails to rally me, no matter the state that I am in. However ... I was a bit disappointed with both "Storytelling" and "Fold Your Hands Child ..." in one respect, and that was the Stuart seemed to be taking more of a back seat in the band it's not that I don't like Stevie or Sarah or Isobel's songs, it's just that, for me at least, Stuart is the "x-factor" which makes the band so great, and it worried me that he was contributing fewer songs. But now I can shout from the rooftops STUART MURDOCH IS BACK! My God, and how ... >From the second I put the new album on on Monday, I was completely overwhelmed with just how amazing it sounded. The songs, the production, the lyrics É After only half a dozen listens I declare it to be my favourite B&S album of all time and I canÕt stop playing it. Something I found quite interesting was the quite overtly Christian/religious overtones of a lot of Stuart's lyrics. This has always been there to some extent in the past, but lines like "I know I need My Shepherd here tonight" are the most overt he's ever written. Does this interest anyone? 'Cause if it does, I'm think about writing a short article called "Belle & The Bible", which will reference all the Biblical allusions in B&S songs. If anyone is even remotely interested in this (either reading or helping out) email me off list. I think it's quite interesting, but can understand that, from 99% of listees, it's probably not that interesting at all É Anyway, nice to be back ... and "hi" everyone, 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: When the ball hits the goal, it's not Cooper or Joe, it's Favata
by Mark Casarotto 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

The Duke of Harringay always manages to get the last word in. In digests, I mean. I believe the digest is still the unpopular method of receiving Sinister posts, and am starting to think it's because the Duke sets uneasy thoughts into the minds of its readers which then spurs them to go and start writing to Sinister themselves. Um, that's a good thing, actually. Yesterday I had to type the words "Vicar fantasy bestseller" into google (for professional reasons, you perverts) and lawks! I found exactly what I was after! Today, I shall be googling "buttplug powerdrill mayonnaise". For my mum. Christ on a bike, that Sinister Village site is a veritable Who's Who of Sinister celebrity 1999-style! Lesley Jo Miller! Starry Sarah! Nick "flamin'" Dastoor, for heavens sake! I notice I never signed up for anything. Perhaps I was afeared of the T word even then. I'm off to download some So Solid Crew. Sayonara, Mark xxx ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.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: three-oh!
by ian 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY JIM! jim taylor is 30 today. forgive the shout-out, its for a very special bloke. someone without whom i'd never have found you lot. because you have jim taylor and ailsa ross to blame for my presence around these parts. bowlie festival... all those years ago... one of them endeared themselves to me by appearing from nowhere on a sand dune in the middle of the night, mumbling incoherently about mailing lists and sharing wine (i think it might have been someone else sharing wine, on reflection, but i liked this person anyway). that was ailsa..... jim was the fellow who was kind, and friendly, and funny - who got my friend water when she was fainting at the front of the b&s gig (saved us from having to go to the back) and who danced and had a laugh with us after the gig was over. i decided any list with these people on it had to be worth joining. later on, jim was one of the people who made me feel most welcome at the first sinister picnic i attended, two friends (one the fainter, one the boyf) in tow, and a shy shuffle at my feet. thanks to him, i got to go to the first tigermilking and to meet loads more of you. and i doubt that i'd have done a lot of the things i've done with you guys since without such a good friend to make me feel braver about myself. i've met loads more of you since, and you're all lovely - but here's to the bloke who made it all possible. this isn't just motivated by gratitude, its motivated by friendship, and an admiration of someone who isn't prepared to be cynical or mean in the face of an uncaring world - and who is prepared to stand up for what he believes in (even though i don't always agree with him). i'll stop here, in case it sounds like i'm after him... (i'm not) (although a boy could do far worse) so.... you have jim and ailsa to blame, and i have them to thank. cos i'm still here, one of those problem middle kids, never quite old enough to be supercool, far too old to be a novelty... i think we need another bowlie, yknow. something to bring us all together. a period where there are lots of gigs happening in a short space of time, and lots of sinister-types concentrated together in one area - when we can plan lots of marvellous things to do. if only belle and sebastian were playing three dates in the same city on one weekend in the near future.... but that's another subject, for another mail. i'll finish with a HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and a promise that my next mail will be more for general consumption. hope it was good, jim xx ian +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Les stars et les espoirs
by Anna Higgins 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

Glasgow Saved Me From My Own Ears, or: A Narrative of Musical Revelation and Redemption I�ve been working so hard plotting the Ultimate Mixtape for the tape tree that I figured it wouldn�t be such a huge leap to actually contribute to the list for once instead of lurking around and silently admiring you guys. I just moved from Chicago to Northern California to start an anthropology phd program, not too long after the Berkeley show. Since I found Belle and Sebastian in 2000, I have moved to a new town every summer, missing the B&S tour by one month or less each time. To this day I have never seen them perform. This is madly appropriate because of the way I first discovered the band. I was spending a semester abroad in Nottingham in winter 2000. My boyfriend, a sexy-librarian-in-training, was in Glasgow during the same time. I spent more time in Glasgow than Nottingham because I was besotted with him and besotted with the city. The sandstone, the gentle light, the ring of mountains around the city, the green moss on the old gray stones, was searingly beautiful. I couldn�t spend enough time walking the city, sitting in parks, riding the underground. Glasgow looked to me like a city had grown from the ground all at once of its own will like a plant, and if I kicked the dirt away would be revealed as one organism underneath it with roots and tubers and underground colonies of carnivorous sheep (no.. wait... that was an Alisdair Gray novel... ). On the walls of these tenements around the corner of Byres Road and Great Western, only a few blocks from my boyfriend�s dorm, there were posters showing twins bathed in a sickly yellow light, one wearing eyeliner, one not, holding a book. �Belle and Sebastian,� I thought, �Who�s that?� I was too busy riding the underground and sitting in parks and being in love to go to a record shop and find out. That had to wait until the following summer, after going home, when I was about to embark on a road trip in Northeast Georgia. Remembering the poster on Great Western Road, I picked up FYHCYWLAP in Atlanta and listened to it driving around in the Appalacians. It didn�t leave the cd player for a week. Over the next month I bought the rest, and was shocked to discover that FYHCYWLAP wasn't even their best. I had come to buying music late, and never really developed good taste. After Belle and Sebastian came in through my ears and rearranged my heart, I couldn't go on listening to the crap I used to like and had to go about developing some kind of musical aesthetic of my own that didn't involve . . . well, never mind. My cd collection was pretty ugly. The less said, the better. The new album is in the mail right now. For all I know it could already be in the mailbox. I�m a little frightened, and very excited. Hearing a new Belle and Sebastian album is like moving to a new town or making a new friend, I never know what to expect and I always keep a little shell of resistence around my heart at first in case it isn't as good as the rest. Anna PS Are there any sinisters in the South Bay--San Jose, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, etc? Just curious. I know there's a few in San Francisco. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.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: every day between 1 and 2 i want to be in the park with you
by Hugo Johan <12813249＠sun.ac.za> 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

hi there all mmh, isn't the weather lovely here? but then its spring... (<shares evil cackle with rest of scantily-clad southern hemisphere>) actually wait (suddenly remembering i'm single) why's spring a good thing? it can be no accident that in my language loins ("lende") and spring ("lente") only differ by one letter... but that's not at all what i wanted to talk about. i've been meaning to write for ages, but just haven't got round to it, not that it matters, i think. besides, i've been waiting for the new album (but since we only got the STROKES album in stores at the beginning of THIS year, i'm really not holding my breath!) but the duke mentioned isobel, and i've been dying to find out, but no-one's mentioned it: is there still some cello around on DICKYWUSS? i've always loved the cello bits, and i'd hate it if they lost that part of their sound - as for the rest, well, sofar it all sounds good to me! the duke ALSO said the gentle waves albums were terrible... mmh, not sure i agree with that. a bit patchy maybe, but there were some GRATE tracks on both, and sometimes i even (almost, but never quite) fancied 'bel as a better lyricist than stuart. still, good to know her new album makes even the sceptics smile... ALSO that fount of neverending wisdom, the D.o.H. said he's going to prepare his list for the TAPE-TREE! hah! aren't you all sorry now you've missed the boat? i'm SOOOO(and almost OOO too) excited! stay well, stay loose love JohaN ps. there was a little paragraph in the local newspaper today describing trevor horn in glowing terms, in a review of the new seal album, which he has also (i almost wrote "almost"... mmh, very freudian, perhaps?) produced, all about him being able to "get things out of artists they themselves didn't even know they possessed" and the like. i was going to post it, but seem to have lost it somewhere... oh bugger it anyway. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Girls that drop cups in cafes
by Rask 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

well sinister, I only just purchased the cd. I have had the album i would say close to a month, and been weighing it up and down, and some of you will remember I said i didn't like it very much and that it was overproduced yada yada. Got a bit of a public dressing down from Robin Stout.(he apologised though, what a nice fellow) But i have to say that when I took it out of its box, put it into cd player a kind of magic took over. I sat crossed legged on the floor and read Stuart 's liner notes, which were grate. (mailing his jacket back to his house is my favourite bit). It all made sense with the notes and it playing out my stereo, the sun shining in the window. A composite piece. There is a lesson here kids, mp3's are the tool of the devil. I download all my stuff at uni, on their ultra fast connection, but i have noticed something. The more twee or fay the music, the slower the connection the other side. If you set about downloading, say the new strokes album, good ole fashioned(almost) rawk, the users all have an upload speed of about 100, but the more twee the music the weaker the transmission speed. I had a bastard of a time getting camera obscura and Isobel's new album. Anyway, because i'm wanking about trying to get a user on soulseek that can give me the song at a good speed i want to be instantly blown away when I've finally procured the damn thing and play it on my headphones, and then of course they are all out of sequence. Its just not a nice experience. Even when i have it all loaded in the right order and playing away it just didn't do it for me. But the act of coming in and loading the disc and reading what stuart has to say made me warm to it more. I think music is instantly contextual, and if the context is looking over my shoulder to see if the network administrator has found out that I've hacked the websense filter then it changes the music too. Anyway long story short I am quite enjoying the record. ****Dear Catastrophe Waitress**** I was sitting in a café in once with a friend of mine, we had been playing chess and he had been beating me, I decided to blame my poor performance on the fact the café was getting very loud and busy. I was getting a bit sulky really because I don't like to lose. So I stared into space and he read a book, I think it was the unbearable lightness of being, and he was underlining my copy. It was one of these evenings that we were really just passing time and that is the only phrase for it. I hate that phrase to "pass time"; I mean what is one passing time till exactly? I know this sounds a bit trite, like pop psychology rhetoric, to make every moment count or something, but really it saddens me to pass time. That is also the best reason I can come up with when people ask me why I don't wear a watch. I like to give my affectations solid theoretical grounding, and with the eyes to heaven they nod as I explain. So the café was quite dark but it was the cosiest place we could find on a cold night. A girl in the corner had caught my eye from the very start of the evening. She looked really nervous, she was a waitress but she looked as though she were new. She was pretty, not overly so but her manner naïve enough to give her charm. I caught her eye a few times as she served the tables next to mine. I was looking at her when it happened; she dropped the entire tray of cups all over the floor in front of me and a look, this look of sheer annoyance, almost grief like in its contortions came over her face and she bit her lip beautifully. It seemed to over-compensate by far for the crime. She hissed a sorry to me for getting coffee on my chords but all I could do was sit there and think of this look. My friend turned to me and said exactly what was on my mind. "Did you see her face as she dropped the cups, wasn't it beautiful" . In my minds absence she had all but cleared up the mess but I decided to make a show of helping her clear it up. She smiled and awkwardly turned back towards the kitchen with her nervous walk. I must admit to passing time up until that point, but after that I basked in how sexy I thought this girl was and her nervous annoyance. You must understand that it wasn't an angry moment it was embarrassment it was vulnerability, it was perfect. Since then when I'm asked what kind of women I like I maintain that I like "girls that drop cups in cafes". It's the feeling that they are slightly inept at their jobs, my friend suggested. That perhaps they are inept because they do something else, perhaps artists or writers he continued. Perhaps this is the case, perhaps not, but since then I have noticed that she has many counterparts and partners in crime all over the world. An honourable mention is to the girl that used to serve me espresso everyday in a café at Place de la Sorbonne in Paris (she actually tipped my table over) , she used to brush her hair in the back before she came out to take my order I could see her face in the mirror. I was too shy with my French to ask for anything more than an espresso however. Richard (Rask) P.S "Bunking off though you're a toff" = playing truant even though your posh +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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, I'm new, and being new is uncomfortable.
by Lesley Katzen 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

Oh me, oh my. I had written this wonderful introduction email and it's gone all gone. Needless to say this one won't be quite as long, but eh, just don't feel it second time around. I'm Lesley, I have been "given a voice". I have just seen the trailer for the DVD, I got all teary eyed, no lie (though it may have something to do with what they refer to as pre-menstrual syndrome). I'm going to the Boston show again this year, too excited. When I had first met the man a bit more than a year and a half ago and we rambled on about Belle and Sebastian on the way home from dates stuck in the back of his 1986 Dodge 600, cigarettes constantly smoldering, a mass of bare appendages we thought the most wonderful thing at that time (besides our overwhelming sexual fervor for each other) was our love for the band. He was going to the show (last year) with a friend, I was going with a friend. Turns out his friend (very dramatic) was a 58 year old frontman of his band who was head over heels with him and would not acknowledge me. Turns out my friend Jenna and I had seats directly behind them, heartbreaking. All has been sorted out everybodies friends are friends and the child catcher has been instructed to "get over it"...which he seemingly has. This year I have 8th row. lucky me. Though I won't run into the late running Isobel and her silver cello case in the lobby I suspect...as she seems busy busy busy. Not in love with the new album, too crisp, overproduced. Waiting for a Stuart solo, a throw back to Sinister (the record). May wait forever. Keep having to reminding myself it's still the band, even if it isn't the greatest album. Anyhow hola! I'd love to make the picnic before the show this year, wondering what the plans are. ML, Lesley __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.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: DCW - What's up with the heathen purists!!!!
by Newphil1＠aol.com 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

I bought Purple Rain on DVD the other day for £5.99. Y'know the Prince movie? The thing is I can't stop watching it. I'm obsessed. The man is such a star - the moves, the tunes, the wailing guitar solos. And then there's Wendy & Lisa - in fact the whole of The Revolution rule. They make the Strokes look like the rich kid dullards that they really are. Anyhow I'll try not to bring up Prince again. Forgive me if I go astray. damn... I didn't get DCW until Friday. I'm stuck in the sticks with only a Woolworth's and they weren't stocking it. So it wasn't until I travelled to London to play a disastrous gig (oh! the horror!) that I could pick up a copy. Now having been a B&S fan since the first time I heard them (Lazy Line Painter Jane on The Chart Show if you're interested) and generally a little disappointed with the overall Fold Your Hands Child album (don't get me wrong - it's good album, there are some corkers on it - but also some clunkers) I wasn't really expecting a great album. Add to this my own Logan's Run style theory that bands should only release 4 studio albums within 4 - 7 years (ideally 5 years) and then split AND all the negativity about the album from the old school hardcore fans I was prepared to be disappointed. However, the albums great, Mad Murdoch's sleeve notes are even better. I've been mocked for years about my fear of going into specialist shops (music, art & craft, camera, dry cleaners, etc.) and now I know that Stuart UNDERSTANDS. Anyhow - the music. Personally I think Trevor Horn coming in as producer was a great move - after 3 years of treading water (although with often entertaining results) I think B&S sound more focussed than they have since '98. I know it's not a classic album but it's so vibrant. The arrangements are faultless, all the songs are at least 4 out of 5, vocally they've never sounded so good, stevie's guitar solos are rampant ...my god, what's up with all the haters? I know there's no Isobel (which hurts me a lot more than it probably hurts you), I know the album doesn't start with a hushed Murdoch epic like the others do but isn't progression the key to being a great band (the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Take That, etc.). Do we really want Stuart Murdoch to keep rewriting Fox In The Snow over and over again? I know DCW isn't as good as Tigermilk but what is? Tigermilk was a statement, a stand, a call to arms - you can't repeat a moment like that - especially once you've won. Tigermilk was Stuart Murdoch's Purple Rain... ...oh damn, Phil M. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 kids
by Jordi Trenzano 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

Hi hi: it's more than 5 years now since I first joined sinister. Needless to say that I wrote a lot of crap lines, written on my crappy english. That last feature still remains in some on my recent posts, you may even find some terrible writing mistakes. "Dear Catastrophe Rijkaard" "only" peaked at 21 on it's 1st week at the UK. So, that's a bit of a contradiction, even tough I heard that the sales at the Rough Trade shops don't count on the album charts for some reason that I don't remember quite well, and that i'd like to have someone to explain me. However, With all this talk of the band leaving the "indie" behaviour, now it looks like the comercial success is not as important as it was expected. So, ¿ what's the bad point ? I personally think the album reaches the levels of quality that I expected after "FYH", even with some bits of change that are still a bit hard for me to get used to them. However, we have songs and sense of humour. What else can we ask ? "Rhoda", maybe, but nothing more. Oh, and a EUROPEAN TOUR IN "CLOSED" VENUES ! There was a band called Camera Obscura that did that a while ago, and it was real fun. Someone claimed to have fallen in love with the catastrophic waitress. I have heard that the vinyl version of the album has some exclusive coloured pics of that same photo session. I have seen those pics and I can say that those spaghetti look quite yummy ;) A few public mentions to some sinisterites: to miss Nal Townley (who never writes here), mr. Matthew Henderson (he does write) and mademoiselle Karo Tremblay, who visited Spain and came to the Benicassim festival. Also to miss Annie Tremp, Rocio "la estrellita temblorosa y azul" Aton and that tall guy who owns JULE THE DOG (and is named Olivier), who I met in Belgium, witnessing yet another fascinating Tindersticks gig. My best wishes for you all ! Jordi (formerly known as Jordiet Sinistre) ______________________________________________________________ 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. 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: impressions and questions
by laurel lemming 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

dear Sinister, now that I've had a week to keep DICKYWUSS on repeat, I've compiled a short list of things that I want to ask Sinister about. first I should say that I love the album. on first listen, I was kind of scared; I really didn't like it at all, and I didn't think the songs were going to become what all the other B+S songs are for me. but I think I've appropriated them into my B+S mind now. now, quickly, song by song: this isn't a review, it's a cry for help! Step Into My Office, Baby: lovely. fun. no questions here. Dear Catastrophe Waitress: on first listen, I thought it was rather weak for being the title track, and though I still think it's a bit of a stretch at times, it's grown on me. but not like IYFS or TWATTYBUS. If She Wants Me: fits nicely with We Rule The School, I think, thematically. Piazza, New York Catcher: classic B+S folky ballad. I like it better than Beyond The Sunrise, anyway. not that that takes much. anyone notice this, it sticks out to me: "...in the guise of *gentle* words/Come *wave* upon me" -- am I reading too much into this? see comment on I'm A Cuckoo as well. Asleep On A Sunbeam: one of my favorites on this album, if not my #1. you can sing This Is Just A Modern Rock Song to it, especially the solos in the instrumental parts. I'm A Cuckoo: ah, the first mention of prayers on the album. I'm not a fan. but the song is catchy. what do you make of the "lost a singer to her clothes" line? You Don't Send Me: is this an actual legitimate phrase, or a B+Sism? Wrapped Up in Books: every time I hear the first line, I think of String Bean Jean. which is not a bad thing. Lord Anthony: finally. I'm going to have to ask someone to translate "Bunking off though you're a toff" for me, though. maybe toff doesn't mean what I thought it did. If You Find Yourself Caught In Love: I love this song, except it makes me feel like I'm in church. the last verse saves it, though, I think. what's the line after "You've got to start somewhere?" Roy Walker: um. fun? Stay Loose: David Bowie crossed with Split Enz's "Dirty Creatures," I think. this took the longest for me to like. it doesn't sound like B+S. it's very strange to end an album with. overall, though, I like this album much better than both FISHYCLAP and Storytelling. it's a bit different, but it's more similar to previous albums than different from them. I like the order of the songs, particularly SIMOB and the LA/IYFYCIL transition. altogether, I'm incredibly pleased, and a little relieved. thanks and love, lem __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.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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