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Sinister: Converting friends to B&S
by Essexdog5＠aol.com 08 Feb '98

08 Feb '98

I've successfully turned on two friends to B&S so far (one of whom is at school and listens to Expectations in the corner of the classroom during lunchbreaks in a "this is the story of my life" kinda way, which is surely the way B&S should be appreciated). Anyway, another mate has at last played the compilation I made for him over six months ago, and here is his 'critique' (well, it made me grin):- "I actually played the B&S today - what a bunch of ass kicking rock n roll. Some of the lyrics were quite interesting - the one about the gay brother - but that cut out half way through. I dont know why they have to have so many people in the group when there is just that bloke with the whining voice and acoustic (YUK) guitar and the drummer who seemed to be playing in a different room. People actually get excited about this? I must be out of touch. I may play the second side around July." This man is doing a pop quiz at the Retro Bar in London on Tuesday. Do feel free to go along and heckle. Stephen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: UK listees: Dance to indiepop/C86/pop-punk classics this Friday!
by Dr C.B.Stride 08 Feb '98

08 Feb '98

Hiya all - its yet another Offbeat......(but the last for a month...) ...if any of you listees are coming let me know, and get some early requests in to me now....... > OFFBEAT - a real indiepop night....... > > with late bar, free lollipops and request sheets > > Sheffield Uni' SU Raynor Lounge (non-students most welcome) > > 9pm to 1am, £2.50 on the door... FRIDAY 13th February FRIDAY 13th March > > Playing......Classic Indie, Punk POP 1977-1997 and C86/C96/new > underground of indiepop..... > > HELEN LOVE-HEAVENLY-BELLE AND SEBASTIAN-DELGADOS > DWEEB-CHAMELEONS-PASTELS-R.E.M.-SMITHS-PAVEMENT- > FALL- BLUR-JAM-HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT-TALULAH GOSH- > SUPER FURRY ANIMALS-ELASTICA-CURVE-URUSEI YATSURA- > BOGSHED-TIGER-SNUFF-DEAD KENNEDYS-PWEI-CARTER USM- > DISCO PISTOL- COMET GAIN -VELODROME 2000-ANORAK GIRL > STEREOLAB-CHINA DRUM-BLAGGERS ITA- BUZZCOCKS-BIS- > WEDDING PRESENT-ASH-SONIC YOUTH-BODINES-PIXIES-CUD > PRIMAL SCREAM (early)-GENE-SHOP ASSISTANTS-FIELD MICE > CHILLS-PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES-BLUEBOY-SCARFO. > plus many more in the same vein...... > > for more details/to join the Offbeat mailing list > email C.B.Stride(a)Sheffield.ac.uk > > > C.B.Stride(a)Sheffield.ac.uk *** daytime: 0114 2223262 *** *** FAX 0114 2727206 *** ** NEW ** evening: 0114 2306539 ** NEW ** "Watford FC Supporters - South Yorkshire branch" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: RE: opening lines
by Russell Sharpe 08 Feb '98

08 Feb '98

> >whats the best opening line from a novel? "Take my camel dear" said Aunt Dot, as she got down from this animal on her return from High Mass. (The Towers Of Trebizond - Rose Macaulay) rustle XXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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R: Sinister: Opening lines, and NO not in *that* way!!!!
by Francesco A. 08 Feb '98

08 Feb '98

> this would be, whats the best opeinng line from a novel? > Has anyone else got any good lines? Please do tell 'cos we'd like that a > lot cos we're like that really and...oooh....just go on! We could have a > top ten chart run down like wot old Top of The Pops with Smashie and > nicy used to do! > I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! The problem with this idea, IMO, is that almost everyone reads thier books in their own language translation. So I could tell you a lot of wonderful opening lines in italian but I think it would be useless. I try with an english one: "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it." I hope everyone knows where I picked up this one. Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: re: and the dream of belle & sebastian (plus other stuff, kinda.
by Perfection As A Hipster 08 Feb '98

08 Feb '98

Jeni wrote ... >I played the whole record in a regular bar, thank you very much, and as for >where I go is my buisness, Andreas. Perhaps it was I who was the dancer ever >thought of that? Fair enough, that's your business ... and of course I thought about the possibility of yourself dancing topless in a regular bar, but why would you have tipped the bartender for playing records then ? Whatever, I'll follow your advice and play _If You're Feeling Sinister_ in case I'll finally earn some urgently required extra money next week ... naked part-time cleaners are popular amongst greedy and slavering old ladies over here in my country. §;^D >For some strange reason I would have thought the listees >would be a bit more openminded. They are open-minded ... that's only yours truly writing thoughtless mails in a drunken state of mind ... my apologies. >Inspiration is inspiration, wherever and >whenever it may be, and whomever may be the one inspired. "She thought it would be fun to try photography She thought it would be fun to try pornography She thought it would be fun to try most anything ... They let Lisa go blind" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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R: R: Sinister: no more rambling
by Francesco A. 08 Feb '98

08 Feb '98

> How did you get into B & S??? > > cool! Probably you asked me this question only because I'm italian, but I do believe that there are at least another italian on the list (I think that he lives really close to me, not farer than 30 Km, and this is really funny and strange). So, counting my girlfriend, I know three italian people who love Belle and Sebastian. It's really easy to say how I got into them: more than a year ago I started finding in the "always hated" english music papers, like MM and NME, short essays on B&S, which said that they were really good and their musical references where a lot of bands I liked. So I started looking for their records, and, even if I had no opprtunity to find them in Italy, I asked a friend of mine who was going to London to buy DoW and ..Sinister.. for me. He did!!! I fell in love since the first time I heard to the single. It was astonishing! Now tht B&S are much well known here in Italy, it's easy to find their records in any good import shop. So I hadn't any problem to buy their two other singles (LLPJ and 3,6,9..). As you may think, I don't own "Tigermilk" and I'm sure i'll never get it until there will be the reissue of it. But I'll wait...... Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: R: Sinister: no more rambling
by Essexdog5＠aol.com 08 Feb '98

08 Feb '98

In a message dated 2/8/98 0:19:05AM, you write: << He was better known as on-man-band in "Another Sunny day" which had some singles on sarah and a compilation album called "London Week-end"(sarah613). He, then, had a mini album out on sarah called "Rebellion" (sarah406). Both of them are really good. But, Imo, his best song is "I'm in love with a girl who doesn't know I exist" >> George Hamilton's Dead and Anorak City (Are You Scared To Get Happy? flexi circa '87 I think) were damn good too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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R: Sinister: high fidelity... low quality writing
by Francesco A. 08 Feb '98

08 Feb '98

---------- > Stuart Gardiner wrote: > > > On the subject of books, I'm not a great reader, but I would recomend > > Nick > > Hornby's "High Fidelity" to anyone. > > sappiest book i ever tried to read, and no mistake. i wanted to > throttle the lead character, and every other character come to think of > it... couldn't get beyond the first third. shite. actually, worse than > shite, just too bloody obvious predictable bollocks etc.... I think that "High fidelity" is a really really good book and that Stuart is completely right! If the Duke thinks that what the author wrote are only "obvious predictable bollocks" so he probably must go further than the first third. But, as the Latin said "De gustibus non est disputandum"! > great books what i have just read: Raymond Chandler - anything by this > dude is cool. Style seems to me to be in the Salinger vein... this > ain't just 'crime' writing, it be classic literature that you can get a > kick out of. Yum. It could be that Salinger took inspiration from Chandler, who wrote the most of his works before. (Even if I sincerely doubt of it!). BTW, both GENEVA (on a single) and Robyn Hitchcock (on an old album) made songs named after R.Chandler ("Raymond Chandler"-by Geneva and "Raymond Chandler evening"- by R.Hitchcock) and, of course, R.C. is a great writer, no doubt.! Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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R: Sinister: high fidelity... low quality writing
by Francesco A. 08 Feb '98

08 Feb '98

---------- > Stuart Gardiner wrote: > > > On the subject of books, I'm not a great reader, but I would recomend > > Nick > > Hornby's "High Fidelity" to anyone. > > sappiest book i ever tried to read, and no mistake. i wanted to > throttle the lead character, and every other character come to think of > it... couldn't get beyond the first third. shite. actually, worse than > shite, just too bloody obvious predictable bollocks etc.... I think that "High fidelity" is a really really good book and that Stuart is completely right! If the Duke thinks that what the author wrote are only "obvious predictable bollocks" so he probably must go further than the first third. But, as the Latin said "De gustibus non est disputandum"! > great books what i have just read: Raymond Chandler - anything by this > dude is cool. Style seems to me to be in the Salinger vein... this > ain't just 'crime' writing, it be classic literature that you can get a > kick out of. Yum. It could be that Salinger took inspiration from Chandler, who wrote the most of his works before. (Even if I sincerely doubt of it!). BTW, both GENEVA (on a single) and Robyn Hitchcock (on an old album) made songs named after R.Chandler ("Raymond Chandler"-by Geneva and "Raymond Chandler evening"- by R.Hitchcock) and, of course, R.C. is a great writer, no doubt.! Love, Francesco. "...and when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me...." S.P.M. It could be that Saliger took inspiration from Chandler who ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: re: and the dream of belle & sebastian (plus other stuff, kinda...
by Perfection As A Hipster 07 Feb '98

07 Feb '98

Jeni wrote ... >I also dreamed that I had a lot of money(what a lovely dream that is) and >just scooped them all up and bought every one of them. It was great!!!! >I've even heard them in a topless bar where a girl was dancing to >them. One night I tipped the bartender to play the whole cd and people were >asking who it was and writing down their name. Isn't that lovely? Ha ha ha ... B&S being the inspiration for a stripper is one thing, but fellow listees hanging out frequently in such clubs and spreading the message there ?!! Have you filed an application yet ? "Dreams come true" Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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