Yes indeedy folks, the Preston picnic was top, the company was great and,
while it didn't rock, it P!O!P!P!E!D! like the billy-o.
Leaning up agains a barrier at the bus station and smoking a cigarette, I
was doing my best to look like Phil Ochs off the front of 'All The News
That's Fit To Sing', but suspected I looked like Jack Duckworth off the back
of a lorry. Sarah didn't seem to mind too much.
I provided the sandwiches and Sarah provided the tasty crisps and bourbon
(biccies), and we sat in the park and talked about you lot and stuff.
It was cool.
At the pub, we laughed and rudely pointed at the Evillest Woman In The
World, and by accident we met my friends Steve and Zoe, who are cool. Zoe
owns a Tigermilk, which she bought from Sister Ray last summer for eight
pounds, so whilst we like her, we also resent her ever so slightly. But
that's another Tigermilk for the register.
Is anyone maintaining the register?
We had a top time and you all missed it. What we saw of Arab Strap was fine,
we could even hear some of the words. They are indeed a disgrace to Falkirk.
We might have anohter Belle and Sebastian Preston picnic when Jad Fair plays
in a few weeks time. Any of you north westerners fancy it? Eh? Nothing
better for rounding off a picnic evening than hearing an American singing
like a strangled chicken, I always think.
Oh, one more thing. Miller wrote:
>Thank you Sarah for your entertaining story about a night out with
Fatty Bum
>Bum in Preston. The Preston Picnic obviously ROCKED and has more me
much
>more jealous than any of the others.
I know for A FACT (ie I've just made it up) that there were at least twenty
subscribers to this list from Spain, and they all left immediately the idea
of the picnics arose. Half because they couldn't afford the money to meet
Miller's legendary appetite for Twiglets, and half because they couldn't
stand the thought of his smell.
Have a cool weekend kids, and don't engage in any rockist activities without
checking it out with the list first.
Cheers
Tim
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Katrina wrote
"got lots of snow patrol gossip if anyone's interested tho'! ..."
The "100 [or 1,000? Doubtful!] things you should have done in bed" single
sounds like it could be a summery hit and they could join Mungo Jerry etc. on
those summery compilation CDs for all time. _But,_ if it were a hit hit might
not Katrina desert us and B&S? How do you stop a hit happening (other than
getting it remixed along the lines of "Hide")?
All 3 Patrollers on the video looked like The Major [B&S content], with those
very bushy eyebrows.
Martin C.
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 afoley(a)csc.com wrote:
> And what's all this talk of Hopkirk and Lee, the only Hopkirk I know used to be
> with Randall and he was deceased anyway......
Vic & Bob are said to be starring in a re-make of this. Scripts by
Charlie Higson off of The Fast Show (source: Teletext, so it's probably
bollards)
> Back on the housmartins thing again, that norman cook bloke who
> played bass(?) doesn't he go under that slimboy fatty name tag now?
His real name is Quentin Cook. I know I've posted this before to the
list, but the fact needs repeating as often as possible.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Stein Vegusdal wrote:
> Last sunday i met Teenage Fanclub after a gig in Oslo - Norway, where
TFC are truely lovely chaps. A couple of years ago, I went down to London
for the day (to see David Letterman recording... oh, the shame). As it
turned out, that day the fannies were doing an instore in HMV on Oxford
Street. So we went to see them, and when they did the signing bit, I
asked them to write a postcard to a friend of mine. They obliged, and my
friend still has the card pinned to her wall with the message "Hi Dawn!
It's Norm here from Teenage Fanclub. We're hanging out in London with
Rod."
Norm Blake is like Duglas Stewart -- It's impossible to listen to their
between song banter without breaking into an enormous cheesey grin!
I went to the Beltane Festival thing last night, but due to being on
antibiotics at the moment, I was unable to drink anything. Boy, was that
a bizarre experience! Last year, when I was off my face, it all made
perfect sense. Last night, I was wandering around wondering what,
exactly, the naked red blokes represented, and whether the other naked
blokes were green or blue. Them pagans really knew how to throw a party.
What's everyone's favourite drugs? My vote goes to "Disprol Soluble
Paracetemol Tablets for Children". All the goodness of paracetemol, and
they taste (and fizz) like orange Refreshers.
And so, tibet.
Rod.
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Hello. It's May Day, so get your McCarthy albums out and sing Ho! for the
life of a worker!
Thank you Sarah for your entertaining story about a night out with Fatty Bum
Bum in Preston. The Preston Picnic obviously ROCKED and has more me much
more jealous than any of the others. Congratulations for speaking to the
Strap Man. I think the mayor of Falkirk is missing out on a great
opportunity to promote Falkirk as the home of pervy speak-a-pop. They could
have tourist board posters of local scenes with slogans taken form Arab
Strap songs, for example, a picture of a local publican pulling a nice
creamy pint of real ale accompanied by the words "Falkirk - and then she
wanked me off", or the local vicar standing in fornt of the church
"Falkirk - it was the biggest cock you've ever seen", or a photo of a local
middle aged couple indulging in a spot of foreplay "Falkirk - and then I
fiddled with her bits". I think it's a winner, but I'd never mention it in
public.
I'm dead jealous because Keith went to see Money Mark. I think he's just
lovely. If the Wu Tang Clan have really got a beauty parlour it must be a
cunning front for a pornographic prostitution gun running ring or something,
like that one Duglas BMX Bandit runs in Glasgow.
I think that's more than enough from me. I'm sure there were other things to
answer..oh yes, thanks Paul Pish for clearing up a couple of my doubts. I
have many more. Adrian, isn't it time for a dead animal update? I saw a dead
dog this morning, it didn't half make me jump - twice, once when I passed it
for the first time and then again on my way back. I've been for a nice long
walk you see. In the rain, because I'm a Belle and Sebastian fan. On acid.
Who's been fucking foxes? And why did they talk to Keith about it?
Peter
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Hi everyone,
As promised, here's the full info about the production of 'Macbeth'.
Dates:14th, 15th, 16th May
Time:8pm
Venue:Glasgow Uni Cloisters (underneath Bute Hall)
Tickets:£2.50/£5.00
Please come! It'll be good - honest!
Hopefully, it'll be nice May weather, but if not, bring warm stuff to
wear....
Bye-bye,
Andy
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>
> I dunno about this alienated and disposessed bit really, people ought to
> come to these things just cause it should be fairly obvious there's a really
> nice bunch of people out there. I'm always wary of this alienated bit cause
> it's really a load of bollocks, everyone's alienated as much as the next
> person - or no-one. Yet again it singles a certain group of people off
> (essentially the people who explicitly feel like they are for whatever
> reason - and decide to try and show it). I don't particularly feel part of
> this group myself even although I meet all these people and have a great
> time.
Fair point. I agree.
I wasn't trying to say that all B&S fans are
dispossed/alienated/disfuntional people(far from it, most of the listees
I've met so far seem almost supernaturaly sorted.) just that anyone who
does feel intimidated about meeting us shouldn't because I'm guessing
that we're all pretty friendly, accepting people. I certainly don't
consider myself a "stereotypical" B&S fan, my musical tastes are pretty
eclectic and I certainly don't just sit under trees reading poetry and
stuff....... Oh bugger it. Everybody just turn up. You know you want to.
Stay lucky, Roryxxx
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Ha! I'm as smug as a very smug thing today. And do you want to
know why, children? Well I'm going to tell you anyway:
I went over to the hellhole that is Gravesend last night to view the
multimedia (please excuse the entirely innacurate hyperbole) extravaganza
that is Lee & Herring on tour. People outside the UK will not know of this
fine comedic duo, but rest assured it was quite funny.
Anyway, afterwards I presented Mr. Stewart Lee (who is also a
part-time music journalist and a man of good musical taste) with a tape copy
of Tigermilk. He was very very happy, and told me that he once heard it
playing in a shop, but that they refused to sell it to him. And I walked
off into the night giggling with my friend. Hurrah! Altruism is a fine
thing.
Bye,
Liz.
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Hello,
Do you like any song(s) that you think you probably shouldn´t like but just
can´t help yourself ? Like,er, "is there something I should Know" from
duran duran or, whatever ?
Tell me about it, maybe some of us have this "problem"!
Pedro.
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I think todays the day to wish listee-and-one-time-poll-correspondent
Nick Dastoor a happy birthday (apologies Nick if I'm wrong). Arabest!
Songs you shouldn't like....."As long as you love me" by the Backside
Boys - I can't explain it.
Hope the Social is a barnstorming success - I can't come this week but I
promise to come next time.
Looking forward to the picnic, I shall spend the weekend baking biscuits
and waxing my frisbee. And praying for better weather - it's grim and
cold at the mo. I'm comming and I don't know anyone - come and be my
friend....
kisses
John
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Had an ace night in Glasgow last night seeing Money Mark, he ruled - at
least for the most part. He tried a few guitar tunes that didn't quite come
off - the songs weren't very good. On the other hand, when he was funky he
was very funky indeed. Hello to all the chums who were there too.
On the advice of Mr.Steve Voeks, I bought the Massive Attack single
today which rules, and also a new Blaxploitation compilation which totally
rules too - I bought that one by accident, but it was a great buy. I'm
actually fighting for things to say here - the list's gone really quiet at
the moment. Even RoDDdNNneYY isn't talking so much. Well I guess everyone's
geared up for this London soiree this weekend, I'm sorry I can't be there,
but it's on a Monday which means it's impossible - unless I want the sack.
However I will look forward to going to one of the Bluesoda Socialist
Worker's meetings in maybe a couple of months.
MILLER, I can confirm that Ooooooooon in fact does not look like Yul
Brynner - but that the bloke who drove our bus across to glasgow did! I saw
a picture of Oooooooooon at Christmas time though at Paul's flat, and the
scene is indeed reminiscent of the King and I.
Big Andy! Were you on internet chat the other day talking to my internet
virtual-robo-cyber chums? They told me someone came on as Bg Bouzer and
claimed to be a friend of mine - I'm assuming this was in fact you. Anyway
Andy, give us a call to go out for a drink some time.
Oh well, that's another large load of nothing said for now,
Cheers, Keith.
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