After Isobel left the band, does anyone know who took over her vocal parts for live shows? I heard a show that had been on the radio that was from April 6, 2002, after she left the band, and someone is doing a pretty good job of it. Although some of the parts are a bit flat. Is it Sarah, or did they draft someone else? Evan
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A lot of quotes.
Robin Stout said
>>... I'd go and buy a copy of The Fall's Greatest Hits For Brass<<
And my ears perked - metaphorically, since i was reading, i guess my eyes
may have perked, i'm not sure couldn't see, but anyway - but then my ears
unperked in disappointment when I realised that Robin didn't actually write
"The Fall's Greatest Hits for Bras". For a moment I thought technology of
personal audio has climbed to a new peak, or two even. Walkman Bras - what
can we call it? Titsman? Walkwoman?
Mind you it can be confusing if you're a 36DD, is that just the cup size or
do you have surround sound? If you have a tune with a good beat playing you
can really "bust a move". You can be the girl next door who's famous for
loud speaker breasts. etc.
Helen Theaker said:
>>
>Indeed. What I would give to have a time machine - I'd go back to 1934 and
>play young Adolf 'Dirty Dream #3'. Perhaps if we all listen to more B&S
>records now, then fewer of us will turn out to be ruthless dictators.
Saddam could probably do with a bit of that.
<<
...Which reminds me.. Do you know where Saddam Hussain keeps all his CDs?
In A RACK!
haha A RACK, geddit? Haha. THEN...
Marc Bots said:
>>
>Saddam could probably do with a bit of that.
and what about george w?
<<
Which reminds me.. if George W were a farm sheep, then he'd be a
SHEPHERD'S BUSH!
Haha SHEPHERD'S BUSH, geddit? Haha, I hilariorise myself sometimes. Mmm I
am the weakest link goodbye.
Ken x
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Yo!
Velocity said:
"I saw that bloke at the street the other day and
thought it was Robert B.! where are you Rob?"
I have no idea whether or not she was talking about me
but I'm here anyway. Hooray! It probably wasn't me
on the street though.
Velocity also said:
"paRadise iS foR the bLesseD"
If paradise is only for Brian Blessed then I assume it
must contain impossibly high mountains inside huge
echo-y theatres so Brian can indulge his passion for
climbing halfway up mountains and PROJECT HIS
*BOOMING* VOICE whenever he feels. I miss Brian
Blessed. Any idea what he's doing these days?
I can't help you either, Mark although I am really
intrigued by all this passport business. Does the
future of Tigermilking depend on some international
spying? Is there a rich megalomaniac (other than
George W.) threatening the twee world? Is there a
giant laser aimed at Hello Kitty as we speak?
Has anyone started betting on the outcome of B&S
Weakest Link? If I were a gambling man I'd put my
money on Murdoch: His policy of non-disclosure seems
to have done him no harm thus far and nobody would
dare vote him off in case he boots them out of the
band or writes a song about them. Obvious innit?
So... Yeah.
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fame, at last.
they say dogs don't dream of fame. but 'they' are all human beings. those
that say things. what do they know of canine fantasy?
of course, world wide recognition comes at a price. they put electrodes in
his skull, they put instruments in places where a dog doesn't want
instruments, they dressed him up in a space helmet. dogs look silly in
space helmets.
but heroism beckoned. and those that see it beckon and turn away spend the
rest of their lives dreaming of where it might have lead them.
they told him: 'cmon, big fella. an intergalactic pilgrim; a missionary for
our planet; the embodiment of the human..er that is... earthling hope for
better things' (they said this in russian. because they were russian.
which is a good reason to speak russian).
and they gave him steak. the finest steak. 'plenty more where this came
from.. no more scavenging around dustbins for YOU, big guy. the best
restaurants; the hottest bitches; the comfiest sofas; the fastest cars - and
you can stick ya head out the window any time you want to..'
they told him this was just a preliminary. the next time the rocket flew,
it would go to the moon. and it would be on the television. (at this point
they showed him a television, because he didn't know what one was. being a
dog, he wasn't all that impressed by it, but that didn't stop them trying).
the humans would love him, they'd tell their dogs about him. he'd be the
first Living Animal Legend. the world would be his!
and, above all this, he was doing the earth the greatest favour any living
being could do it. he was helping the scientists look for The Answer. the
scientists told him this, although they had all read their darwin and they
believed they already knew what The Answer was. he was acting for the good
of his fellow beings. the politicians told him this, because they had all
read their marx and knew he sounded like he had The Answer. if the priests
had been allowed near him, they would have told him he was getting closer to
god. they had all read their bibles and knew they really knew what The
Answer was.
none of that means much to your average dog, but then, this wasn't your
average dog. this was a Canine Hero.
his mother told him to bark, loudly, when he got to the moon, so she'd know
he had got there okay. his personal trainer reminded him of the importance
of exercise - to make sure he lolloped around the space-ship at least three
times a day. his friends looked a bit sad, and said they hoped he wasn't
gone for too long.
they were all invited to watch him depart, as he climbed up to the cockpit.
the russian space-agency clapped and cheered as he was strapped in. the
american space agency growled and jeered, and wondered why THEIR dogs
weren't this brave. the general public were told to be impressed, and,
before long, were impressed.
and the rocket left the earth. and the rocket entered the void.
david bowie once wrote a song:
'floating in a tin can
far above the moon'
of course, this was years later, and it was never a Top Dog Tune anyway. so
it didn't occur to our hero to reflect on the song, and conclude that
whoever had written it had no idea.-
there is a loneliness that is not quantifiable in words. there is a
loneliness that stems from the feeling of being somewhere that nobody else
has ever seen. there is a loneliness that comes of drifting away from what
you've been assured is real, never knowing if you'll come back into contact
with it again. there is the loneliness of finding out you've been lied to.
these are the causes, not the feeling itself. if words could befriend the
feeling through expression, it would no longer be so lonely.
a tiny capsule. easily forgotten about. a point was proved. the
scientists and politicians felt happier. the priests shuffled uneasily in
their seats and muttered about Divine Glory. the dogs of the world were
told little about it. it isn't always wise to inform the masses.
a tiny capsule. the occupant puts his head on his paws, trying folornly to
scratch out the electrodes, hoping for the sanctity of either sleep, or
madness, and finding neither. not yet. not until the final sleep which,
even now, reaches out a solitary finger..
a tiny capsule. perhaps it fell back to earth, at some point. into the
sea, or at a place where only poor, foreign, expendable people lived. the
human race moved on. it dreamed new dreams - some of which were constructed
on this first, original, dog's dream; some of which were more about
destruction than construction.
if this were a film, this would be the point where the camera pans out, and
does a 180 degree turn, up towards the stars. a distancing shot. away from
the sorry carcass, consumed by the flames that rise from crumpled metal, and
up to better things.
every hero must fall. so it is written, by those that write things. nobody
told him that.
nobody said that, when the hero falls, another will be sought to take his
place.
truth is expendable, when dreams are at stake.
every night, though she is long dead, his mother howls at the place where
she thinks he has gone. you can see her, sillhouetted on the cliff-top,
face angled up towards the moon.
perhaps she tells him to beware the dreams of others
perhaps she tells him not to trust people that promise him the moon.
perhaps, like every mother, she hopes he's safe, and happy, and a good
little soldier.
the moon watches her, unfeelingly. the planets care little for these beings
that scurry across them. there will be more heroes, more soldiers, more
liars, and she'll go on, regardless, till the day all the planets fall,
crashing into the sun.
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on a somewhat different note: CHICKFACTOR. that'll be nice, won't it?
anyone up for a bevvy before/after/at some point over that weekend? should
there be a picnic on sunday? should someone (not me) organise it?? should
we accept that its nearly october and the best place to meet might be a pub?
sort it out, please, boys and girls, and report back to me.
xx
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Hello everyone, old and new
Jim was a bit apologetic about getting all political on our asses. Don't be
Jim. I'm sure Stuart M would endorse the march, which makes it content
enough. The political side and religious side of Belle and Sebastian isn't
discussed enough on this list, I think. Most of their songs have some sort
of political or spiritual perspective. It's not all clogs and bus tickets
you know. I'd go on the march myself if I didn't live in the Land of Whales.
They don't march about anything here really. I suppose so long as the whales
have their krill -PLANKTON! - everyone's happy.
oh, what else was I going to say? Has anyone mentioned the Question and
Answer page at http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home/ ?? I'm going to
write a question asking what happened to the Songbook they were supposed to
be bringing out ages ago. It was going to be my excuse to start playing my
trombone again. The old bone hasn't seen much action recently. So it would
be a shame if a promising career as a trombonist (Sounds a bit like an
orthodontist or a chiropodist or something, doesn't it? Are you looking for
a little tromboning today, madam? Anyway, I digress. My mind's been
wandering ever so much today. I'd better find another bracket I suppose.
Can't parenthesise for ever. I bet you can't even remember what I was saying
now, can you? I know I can't. Better read the first half of the sentence
again. Deep breath...) was dashed simply because the B+S songbook never came
out. If I knew it was *never* going to come out, I'd go and buy a copy of
The Fall's Greatest Hits For Brass, but at the moment I just don't know.
Geoff, were you being sarcastic?? It's the lowest form of wit you know.
Yeah, like, I REALLY think so.
Mark, I'd offer you my passport, you know, but I'm twenty-three so I don't
think it would be much use. Have the Italian army finally tracked you down
to do your national service, then? I don't think you'd fool them with my
passport in any case. The photo's from when I was fifteen and I just look
like a cheeky little monkey.
BYE
Robin x
:ps: if you want to you can have a look at my new website. It's in a state
of huge uncompletion, or mild barely startedness, however you want to look
at it, but it's going to be quite top really. I'm trying to make it like
those religious leaflets I keep finding in the bus stop down the road but
just with lots of *really bad advice*. At the moment it's, well, just a bit
crap really. www.superatomic.co.uk xxx.
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>>Well, that's all by now. Take care and, please, listen to (at least) one
>>B&S song every day. That will probably make this world a bit better.
>
>Indeed. What I would give to have a time machine - I'd go back to 1934 and
>play young Adolf 'Dirty Dream #3'. Perhaps if we all listen to more B&S
>records now, then fewer of us will turn out to be ruthless dictators.
Saddam could probably do with a bit of that.
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Hello sinister.
Just to fit in with the pack, here I go. I haven't
written for ages and I've done loads of stuff. (tm)
Ah, I feel conformed - sigh.
well crikey, it's all been happening hasn't it. One
thing I'm not happy about is Gaby Roslin on BBC
Breakfast. You don't need incessantly chirpy people
when you've just woken up, do you? No, I like my
morning news to a be a sombre affair, preferably read
by a stern-faced old man in a black suit and a
conservative tie. Hearing about tragedy and stuff
first thing sets you up for the day I think (or is
this just me?) You don't feel so bad trotting off to
work if you've just heard about some nasty story from
some nasty bit of a nasty city. Hmmm, I better be
quiet I think....
Who invented mozzarella? it's rubbish.
I have to say I agree with Jim entirely on his message
earlier today (yesterday?)and I will be trying to go
down to Laaarrnden on Saturday. I'll probably send
you a message or give you a bell me old mucker. Not
to bang on too long about this, but the word 'oil' has
hardly been mentioned in the press/tv at all. The
only time I remember it being said was when they had a
go at Russia for not wanting a war to 'protect their
oil interests in the region.' I dunno, our media
makes me want to puke sometimes. However, I can't
remember anyone saying it in Kuwait or Afghanistan
either though so I shouldn't really be surprised. Did
you hear about Cheney's company building that massive
oil pipe from the last really big untapped oil reserve
(um, near the Caspian sea I think) to the America's
client states in the region. Twat.
AAAAANYWAY. my life in 30 words or less. I moved
house and didn't have any furniture. I got a new job
that I started last Monday. I've cut down the booze &
crap food. I'm pisces (still).
Top update eh? Anybody on the list live in
Lincolnshire?
It's been a bit quiet on the B&S front lately eh? I
must admit I haven't played storytelling in, oooh,
about two months. Pretty surefire sign that it was a
bit of a non-event musically. Apart from Big John
Shaft of course :')
Oh well, if anyone fancies some gin, chess, cheese,
mud wrestling, rocky horror or discussing the role of
the earwig in popular fiction in the years 1932 - 38
please get in touch.
Loads of love to all
Dean XX
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Whoot Sinister!
First off, Kieran Turner, are you there? I ned to
speak to you urgently! Like, today! Please!
In the off chance I don't speak to Kieran, can anyone
on Sinister in the UK help me? I need someone with a
21st, 25th, 30th, 40th, or 50th birthday between now
and mid-October who can provide me immediately with a
copy of their passport. It will SAVE Tigermilking,
potentially,and my gratitude will be unrivalled... If
you can help, please get in touch with me off-list and
I'll fall, prostrate, at your feet. Cheers :)
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hello,
mums are interesting creatures aren't they? i just got back from visiting my mum and dad (they live about 3 hours south of perth). i stayed for almost a week and got a cup of tea in bed every morning. my mum and i always have good chats and she enjoys having me around to pack the dishwasher and get wood for the fire, and to talk to i guess. she said she liked that band i always played and asked where they came from. i said scotland, and their name is actually Belle and Sebastian, not The Bells of St Catherine. She laughed. We're lucky to have Mums.
cats are interesting creatures arent't they? i just got back from visiting my cat (Puss Puss lives about 3 hours south of perth). i stayed for almost a week and Puss Puss slept on my bed every morning. my cat and i always have fun together and he enjoys me patting him and following me when i get wood for the fire. I had a Leonard Cohen best of, TBWTAS and Deserters Songs in a random shuffley type thing, and every time a B&S song came on Puss Puss pricked his ears and appeared to listen intently. He cleaned himself to Mercury Rev and Leonard Cohen. People say cats are lazy, but i think that they must be very motivated to clean themselves so often. If i were a cat i would just let myself go and hang out with the feral types. but Puss Puss is a bit of a looker and he intends to keep it that way. We're lucky to have cats.
little brothers are interesting creatures aren't they? i just got back from visiting my little brother (Craig lives about 3 hours south of perth). i stayed for almost a week and Craig and I had a game of indoor soccer every evening. My little brother and i always have fun together and he enjoys beating me up, playing drums while i play guitar, playing guitar while i play drums, and roughing me up when i beat him at indoor soccer. he makes me proud cause he is good kid and he doesn't care what other peole think. he is even starting to write songs and i said they were okay. We're lucky to have little brothers.
belle and sebastian are interesting creatures aren't they? i just got back from visiting my mum and dad and cat and little brother and i saw my older brother too (they live about 3 hours south of perth). i stayed for almost a week and listened to B&S every morning. They write such damn fine music and they appear to be genuinely nice people too. Stuart Murdoch is my favourite and I hope he wins the weakest link. We're lucky to have Belle and Sebastian.
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Please read the below quote from
http://www.banchory.net/belleandsebastian/180902.html , or skip it if you -
as i expect - have been to the B&S website recently...
from:
Stuart's Diary
16th September 2002 - athens & rome
"Brian (lighting, philosophy, Ranger's fan) suggested that if Britain went
to war on Iraq, he was going to leave the country as the only thing he could
do to prove that he in no way supported what was happening. I could see his
point. It would be a complete sickener. Who the hell do we think we are? The
five permanent members of the security council have already split the Iraqui
oil share between them, pending a new US friendly Iraqui government. Makes
you want to sell your car as well. They can keep their stinking oil. Well,
they can wait till I've sold Max then they can keep it. I'd feel like
getting out of here aswell if we go to war. Trouble is, I'd probably fancy
going to New York or somewhere. And there's the lazy hypocrisy. America,
great place, but run by a load of tossers. Come on, spread the wealth! And
Europe is definitely as bad. Or would be if the world paid as much attention
to it. I mean, I'm sure they're not all tossers if you met them, politicians
that is, but really, they are all so mean! Nobody is prepared to give an
inch. It's like, you take a decent person and put them in a car, they start
to act sometimes in a way towards others which they would never do if they
were walking down the street. Put someone in charge of a country and it's
the same thing. They'd do to a million people on the other side of the world
in a stroke what they would consider barbarous if they just met someone in
the street, or in the pub or something. I don't know if I'm making great
sense here.."
until now, i missed big stu referencing this
http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200209/msg00045.html, as i've
been mainly off-line, away to America.
Fact: this was the first time Iraq has been referenced on sinister since
May, when Dean said
http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200205/msg00283.html
"dubya just
itching to get into Iraq for ignoring the UN,
developing weapons of mass destruction, appropriating
money away from health and welfare towards a huge
military machine and refusing to allow inspectors to
examine their chemical weapons. Certainly not charges
you could accuse the US of. hmmmmmm."
he followed that with an apology to Americans, also commenting that this is
not the place for such stuff.
Well, i do neither, as, with careful consideration, i do not feel the need
to.
reason 2)
This is a B&S + B&S lifestyle list. B&S are political as i have commented
briefly before. (
http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200005/msg00035.html )
It's not why i love them, and it appears i still do after all these years,
but it is what i expect of them.
reason 1)
I just flew (glossing over enviroment-damaging hypocrisies) back from the
US, not my first visit. I like a lot about the US. It seems to be a true
meritocracy, *unlike* the UK and many other places. It is many things. I am
simultaneously ashamed and proud about things British, and would be the same
if i were an American.
The list didn't ignore 9/11, and neither should/could it.
Neither should it ignore what is going on in the world around us,
particularly when we have crucial opportunities to influence this. I do not
ask or expect others to agree with me. I do not suggest polticisation of the
list. I'd hate that. But there are certain things i have to do, to be
myself. One of these is remind/inform you of saturday's demo. I'd happily
make this a walking pic-nic should anybody care to join me. I'm confident
that if one more body from this list (after it's owners mind has of course
carefully considered the issues and decided it aligned) chose to put itself
on the street to display opposition to the threatened military action (and
it's up to you if you feel ok about multi-lateral UN approved, but
unilateral... ???) then that would stir some positve feelings in B&S towers.
This list if anything is about sharing. If anybody would like to give me a
call on 07816 290 077, and arrange to meet up for the 1pm-ish start at
London's embankment to 'march' (or tweely shuffle) to Hyde Park, then please
do. If anybody hasn't done anything like this before, and is unsure about
it, feel free to give me a bell, and of course i can happily look after
anybody if they felt a little anxious. I am at least tall and hard to loose
in a crowd. I certainly won't be trying to convert anyone to any cause, so
have no such fears, but i do not apologise for showing my face at events
like this, and encouraging others to do the same, or at least being
comfortable in themsleves at not doing so, having considered the facts.
It would be a rather wonderful thing to have a bit of the sinister massive
in full effect on the odd occasion such as this. Pic-nic in hyde park after
even??!!!
************DON'T ATTACK IRAQ ( www.stopwar.org.uk ) DEMONSTRATE SAT 28
SEPTEMBER, ASSEMBLE 1pm EMBANKMENT march to Hyde Park. Called by Stop the
War Coalition, backed by CND.*************
I leant the lady in LA my FAVOURITE B&S T-SHIRT that amidst the odd old band
t-shirt redistributing phases (try it - stuff you don't wear ever, makes
other people incredibly happy) i've been offered cash for a few times. That
must mean i like her a lot.
Anyway, skimming over the fact that she's a big B&S fan and members of the
parish are linked to our having got to know + spent time with each other, oh
and that i also went to the pub in LA with the lovely Rachel Fruitloop...
she is not *the* lady of course. Cos that would mean Bappsy boy would be
unhappy. and this i believe, is not the case ;)
Also skipping over the fact i've had (and still do have) a half written
sinister post in my draft folder for longer than i remember...
I had been considering how i'd go about writing this. Encouraging any of you
lot to come on the demo on saturday in London. Well those of you in the UK
or rich enough to be travelling at least.
So to end, as started, with somebody else's wise words. I remembered Ian
sticking this on the Parish noticeboard (
http://www.missprint.org/sinister/mhonarc/200201/msg00101.html ). I look
forward to having him stay this weekend.
"everybody's playing a brand new game, now
(come on baby, do the armageddon)
stockpiling their weapons, apportioning blame, now
(come on baby, do the armageddon)
using racist rhetoric, fuelling unease
its easier than learning your ABCs
so come on, come on
do the armageddon for me
you gotta arm them ships, now
c'mon georgie
kabul
iraq
well you'll never bring them ba-ack
woah oh woah oh
now that you have started, events make a chain, now
(cmon baby, do the armageddon)
stigmatise the brown folk, call them insane, now
(cmon baby, do the armageddon)
pick a starving country, a nice sitting duck
it'll make it easier to bomb it to fuck
c'mon, c'mon
do the armageddon for me
just blow that mosque to bits, now
cmon baby
fly out
fly back
and destroy that peasant's sha-ack
move around the floor in the armageddon
(cmon baby, do the armageddon)
there's not a muslim country we haven't dropped lead on
(c'mon baby, do the armageddon)
play it nice and easy now, don't lose control
where once there was a city there's a gaping hole
cmon cmon
watch the armageddon with me."
love (+ peace)
jim
PS just to break any other taboos i can think of, i'll mention religion. The
London Buddhist centre attempts to defend it's national inter-FWBO buddhist
centre six-a-side footy title on sunday, so i'll try not to kick/deflect the
ball into anybody's glasses (sorry Stevie T & Ken Chu). See anybody else in
London @ London Chickfactor :)
PPS i have of course attempted to obey list rules and have not provided a
link to an anti-war petition, and kindly suggest comment on
in/approriateness of this email be directed to me off list. ta.
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