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Sinister: Pat Sharpe
by Keith Watson 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

>Mmm...... I always thought a mullet was just the opposite - long at the front >and on top, but short at the back - the kind of thing that was popular with the >new romantics. There was a lot of talk of mullets in the music press a year >or two back, when that awful band Tiger were getting press, as apparently >they sported mullets. They certainly didn't have the Michael Bolton look. > >I'm confused Nah, a mullet's definitely the long at back short at sides and on top look sported by cheesy 80's people (was going to say scousers, but removed for fear of offence). As sported by such luminaries as Limahl (an anagram of "Hamill", which is his surname Look In fans) and Paul McCartney, even now! It's officially the worst haircut in the history of hairdressing. I had this horrible thought there imagining David "The Dame", "The Thin White Duke" Bowie sporting one just after his taste glands got removed in 1983, but luckily, he didn't - I imagine that was more of a fluke than by design. Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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:Sessions DownLow
by mayfly the fly 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

I spoke with someone at the soon to be announced US label and the band will be on the show soon, probably later this month. There was a bit of a tie up because the show was recorded such a long time ago and is just airing now, but it's worked out, and it doesn't seem like a big deal. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Guardian article - (warning: LONG!)
by Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

I don't know if this is a good idea and I haven't even read it all but perhaps some of you might like to see this article from today's Guardian on the scene in Glasgow, "Britain's undisputable second musical city" (I presume he means London is the first - why?). More mentions of the wispy, delicate and 'unbelievably shy' Belle and Sebastian than you could shake a small bus at, but no photo (ha!). Nick S. Dastoor nick_dastoor.bsho(a)notes.compuserve.com SCOTTISH BANDS - WEST END PEARLS. By Tom Cox. Exit Central Station, ride the tube four stops anti-clockwise from Buchanan Street, get off at Hillhead, and you're there: at the hub of Scotland's leading cultural outpost, the midstream of a humble but broad-minded metropolis with a fast-accelerating civic pride. After a regional survey, last week's Big Issue magazine voted Glasgow Britain's coolest city, decreeing it was spontaneous, classless, young and vibrant, with a youth population who wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world. Owing largely to Trainspotting and the 1996 Turner Prize, it's been propitious to be Scottish for some time now. Being Glaswegian, the survey proves, is better still. Canvassing Glasgow's thriving musical community, I arrive at even more conclusive results. When interrogated, nine out of 10 Glasgow musicians stay inexorably loyal to their home city - and opine that Glaswegian pop music is currently at its bonniest ever. This is more than just hackneyed home-town pride. Look at the evidence. Recently, Glasgow has stepped forward as Britain's undisputable second musical city, leaving competitors Manchester and Liverpool in a cloud of sub-Oasis dust. Avant-garde overlord John Peel claims to have aired more records from Glasgow in the last 12 months than at any other time during his four-decade career. Moody sods Arab Strap soundtrack the Guinness advert. The unbelievably shy and delicate Belle And Sebastian get closer to a Top Of The Pops outing with each single. Even Spice Girl Mel C has been seen out watching the really quite ramshackle Urusei Yatsura. After a few years being buffeted around half-invented weekly music press scenes, Glasgow is set to transcend previous tags - lo-fi retro - though sheer eclecticism. In the first half of 1998, expect new albums from Belle And Sebastian, Superstar, Urusei Yatsura, The Delgados, Adventures In Stereo, Arab Strap, The Pastels, The Leopards, Future Pilot AKA, 18 Wheeler and Mogwai. This is a frequently terrific bunch, who - due to the once-unimaginable success of Belle And Sebastian and Teenage Fanclub, and the groundwork of deviants like Orange Juice and The Pastels - can now feel nowhere near as marginalised as they used to. Back in the eighties, Glasgow rock meant Simple Minds and Wet Wet Wet: slick, bloated, arena-ready ego-massaging which said little about its place of origin, let alone the lives of its fans. Anything else was strictly peripheral. `We felt quite disenfranchised by the grandiose sound in the eighties,' remembers Stephen McRobbie from The Pastels, who along with the Jesus And Mary Chain, Primal Scream and The Vaselines, formed an original kicking-against-the-pricks guild in reaction to corporate misery. `We'd all had similar experiences - there was nowhere good to play in Glasgow and a lack of communication.' The difference now, with the stadium pomposity gone, is that the self-sufficient Glasgow band is a realistic commercial prospect - still able to operate on its own terms, but no longer creatively isolated, despite being 500 miles away from music biz central. A proliferation of record labels, clubs and bands ensures constant moral support, without a niggling media spotlight. The effect is such that a band like Belle And Sebastian can earn universal praise and top 40 success with minimal nationwide gigs and still fewer interviews. Their decision is simple: `When it comes to chosing between a gig in London and playing in front of all our friends, we'll go for the friends every time,' explains Sarah Martin, the group's violinist. Martin, a Mancunian who relocated to Glasgow in the early nineties, finds the underworld fellowship of the city both spooky and alluring. `It seems really incestuous in a way - once you're in a band, you end up drinking with all the other bands. Everyone's sensible here, though. No matter how successful people are, you still see them going down to The 13th Note to check out the latest group.' Delgados vocalist Emma Pollock agrees: `Because of what we do, we can just go out and have a party. Nobody's organised it, but you can't turn around without seeing someone you know. Plus, there's no pressure to compliment someone's band just because you're friends with them.' The 13th Note is the premier night-time rendezvous for Glaswegian subculture, a venue with a free plug-in policy, ensuring that fledgling local outfits can always get a gig mere days after first picking up a Rickenbacker. Step from Hillhead tube station into the West End and you're greeted by the other meeting places: the daytime ones. Immediately t o your right is Jon Smith's, the book and record shop where Stephen from The Pastels will sell you the esoterica of your choice. Across the road is a succession of cosmopolitan nosheries. Around the corner, you'll find bohemian backstreet cafes likely to be thronged with at least a million members of Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai or The Delgados at any one time. Glasgow may still be a mean city, and parts of it may look like eastern Europe with better shops, but this is different - safe, cultured and lively. Eight years ago Glasgow was designated European City Of Culture by the European Community. It's difficult to gauge the benefit this had on underground music, but there's a definite residual optimism. Most of 1998's rock population are industrial suburbanites who've been magnetised to the centre by its increasingly ebullient nature. The Pastels' Stephen McRobbie was one of the first. `The West End can be quite deceptive,' he points out. `Most of us actually grew up close to poverty-stricken areas. Our parents were only quite poor but our grandparents were really, really poor.' `Traditionally Edinburgh's slummy, ill-educated in-law, Glasgow is turning the tables, attracting a different kind of person,' reckons Gerry Love, who, like the rest of Teenage Fanclub, hails from the Lanarkshire no-man's land a dozen miles outside the city. `When I was growing up, the whole west of Scotland was like a wasteland and Glasgow was a demolition zone - like That Sinking Feeling, the Bill Forsyth movie. It's become more sophisticated since I moved here.' The archetypal minor Glaswegian rock star is often ascribed an innocuous persona in the music press - sleepy Stephen Pastel, cuddly Joe Superstar, cheeky Gerry Fanclub. Apart from being somewhat patronising, this undermines an inherent grittiness in their backgrounds. Would a bunch of grinning nice-but-dims have a discography as soaringly memorable as Teenage Fanclub's? I think not. There's a personable nature here, but there's also a severe, single-minded one. Love tells me: `There's something bolshy and defiant about Glasgow bands. It's in our genes.' McRobbie defines it as a `swagger bereft of an over-egged rock-star arrogance' - something, as someone who's overseen Scottish independent music since the early eighties, he's recognised in all great Glasgow rock, from The Jesus And Mary Chain to Belle And Sebastian. What other factors are characteristic of the Glasgow band? Patience, for starters. Of the truly special Glaswegian works awaiting release in 1998, the majority come from songwriters who've quietly honed their pop chops over a number of years. Belle And Sebastian's introverted Stuart Murdoch was a familiar nomadic presence around Glasgow for years, DJ-ing in local clubs and distributing his home-recorded tapes of wispy, underdeveloped compositions inspired by the city's bus routes. Adventures In Stereo's fuzzy, Dusty Springfield-echoing mini-symphonies are textured by ex-Primal Scream axeman Jim Beattie. The emotionally intense, soulful Superstar are the brainchild of long-time Teenage Fanclub acolyte Joe MacAlinden, who, in an inferior incarnation, released an album through Creation Records in 1992. `I think what's emerged is a dedication to the art of making music, the same approach of film directors who maintain a high standard for 40 years,' as McRobbie sums it all up. Without a `Conquer the world, quick!' manifesto, the typical Glasgow band reverses every rock'n'roll cliche in existence. `Live fast, die young' becomes `Nae hurry, drink lots of tea'. `You've got a lifetime to write your first album and a year to write your second' becomes `We still need time to develop as a band'. `We're genius, us, our kid' becomes `Give us 10 years and we might be quite good'. With this `Who, us?' demeanour disguising a quiet determination, the Glasgow attitude nestles light-years from its mouthy counterpart south of the border. `There was a nationalism in Britpop that you wouldn't get here. Because we live in a smaller country, we tend to think more internationally,' McRobbie points out. Perhaps this is why the west coast of Scotland in 1998 bears comparison to the west coast of America in 1968. From the city's San Francisco district - a cross-hatched hillside street plan similar to the one which dominates Frisco's centre - to the unprompted Glaswegian support of mavericks like Kurt Cobain, Brian Wilson and Big Star's Alex Chilton, from Belle And Sebastian's beautified appreciation of Simon And Garfunkel to Superstar's interpretation of Stax soul, Glasgow's symbiotic relationship with the US never ends. `I think it's the port mentality, like Liverpool in the sixties - the next stop is America,' laughs Love. While it might not quite have reached Merseysound hysteria yet, something in Glasgow has changed, a shift from wilful amateurism to an ever-strengthening, communally stoked self-belief. The defiant spirit is still there, but now it's got new ambition and an accessible melody. Amazingly, it's honest and vibrant. What's more, the music business is just a little too far away to spoil the party. By its very determination to be unhip, Glasgow is becoming the hippest musical city of all. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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. 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RE: Mullet (was: Sinister: Lip Trumpet/Scott W)
by Nigel Turner 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

>>What the fuck's a mini mullet? >my boy, if you were to grow your hair long, but keep a short fringe you too would be sporting a mullet. Like Michael Bolton used to have. And rocky out of Boon. And Jon Bon Jovi in his "slippery when wet" days. And most bikers. Do you see? A mini mullet is one that's not yet fully developed. Mmm...... I always thought a mullet was just the opposite - long at the front and on top, but short at the back - the kind of thing that was popular with the new romantics. There was a lot of talk of mullets in the music press a year or two back, when that awful band Tiger were getting press, as apparently they sported mullets. They certainly didn't have the Michael Bolton look. I'm confused >Snaglepuss wrote > If you knew what "snatch" meant in slang you wouldn't believe me. >It means "fanny" doesn't it? Another good word ruined. I know what "felching" is too. And "mayonasing". Ah, but do you know what "pugwash" is? Nigel xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Lip Trumpet/Scott W
by Chris Leonard 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

I like Scott Walker. I think "next" is the only song which says gonnorea (sp?) eh? gonnoreha (sp?) you know what I mean. I got a marc almond record for a pound out of lost in music. It's all Jaques Brel tunes and it's all right. He does "next" as well but he doesn't say ghonarea (sp?) he says syphilis. He probably couldn't spell gonnerea (sp?) when he tried to write down the words. He does "if you go away" too, and i prefer his version to Scott's by the way. And he does "my death" which is a super song. And I think Neil Hannon is a splendid little chap. eh, what's this >>>See if your singing "Judy.." to yourself do you apply lip trumpet? Or >>>is this just me? >Sneaky Laird wrote: >>Is that some kind of medication? why i oughta....! Come on you know what lip trumpet is. Loosen your lips and blow and cause vibrations that mimic the sound of a trumpet. Do it now! Accompany yourself with nose guitar! >>What the fuck's a mini mullet? my boy, if you were to grow your hair long, but keep a short fringe you too would be sporting a mullet. Like Michael Bolton used to have. And rocky out of Boon. And Jon Bon Jovi in his "slippery when wet" days. And most bikers. Do you see? A mini mullet is one that's not yet fully developed. Snaglepuss wrote > If you knew what "snatch" meant in slang you wouldn't believe me. It means "fanny" doesn't it? Another good word ruined. I know what "felching" is too. And "mayonasing". admiral L > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: How I made my Penis (working for Notcutts???)
by klas.ericsson＠student.jmg.gu.se 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

OK! Sorry fot the subjectline. I´ve been working on a tabloid!!!! If any one takes offense - forgive me. But it´s really natural, you know! Nothy wrote: >oh and if Belle and Sebastian are reading this - I was Radiohead >obsessed after OKC - saw them twice, bought most of their old singles >and they were decidly my fave band. Already possessing the two >singles, I put "La Pastie de la...." on and I was converted. - A small socialist revolution then? Isn´t this great! Belle And Sebastian are managing to convert a tory voter with their most political song:-) Sorry Northy, no offense! /// ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: The Matador Man Himself SPEAKS!
by Amanda Bergman 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

I came home from my stint at the radio station today to find out that B&S HAD SIGNED WITH MATADOR HERE IN THE STATES! The first thing I could think to do was email the Big Man himself, Gerard Cosloy, co-pres of said record company. Below, for your perusal, is Mr. Cosloy's response and my initial (excited) email. THIS IS SO COOL. YAY. (all join me now in a vicarious dance of joy) lovely, Amanda >Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:37:03 -0800 (PST) >To: Amanda Bergman <<a-bergman(a)nwu.edu> <bold>>From: Gerard Cosloy <<gerardc(a)escape.com> </bold>>Subject: Re: Belle and Sebastian >Cc: patrick(a)matador.recs.com, christina(a)matador.recs.com > >Amanda, > >You are welcome....and we are also very excited about this. We can't wait >to hear the new album. > >We're hopeful that the group will be playing some shows in the U.S., though >we don't expect they will be playing very many. > >We're not sure about the interview stuff...in the past, they've been >willing to do fanzines but not so willing to cooperate with the major music >papers. But we will discuss all of these issues with the group and their >management. When and if they are over here, our publicity dept. will do >their best to help you out. > >thanks for writing, > >GC >>Mr. Cosloy-- >> >>I wanted to let you know that this is the best news I've heard in a good >>long while. Now I can really say that all of my favorite bands are on >>Matador. >> >>(allow me to pause here to do a not-so-understated dance of joy) >> >>Thank you thank you thank you for snapping them up. >> >>So does this mean that maybe oh maybe they will tour here and that just >>maybe oh maybe they will grant interviews to university newspapers? >> >>The news of B&S signing with Matador has incited great excitement among >>the band's stateside fans. Hopefully we will all be able to convene and >>do one of those not-so-understated dances of joy all together...in the >>audience...during one of their concerts...hopefully... >> >>I can't wait for the release of the new album! Especially now that I >>won't have to wile away the hours hunting it down here, and won't need >>to have someone buy it for me in England and send it to me. >> >>Take care, >>Amanda >> >> >>-- >>Amanda Bergman >>Northwestern University >>a-bergman(a)nwu.edu >> >>"You made me forget my dreams, when I woke up to you sleeping." >>--Belle and Sebastian > ------------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman(a)nwu.edu "You made me forget my dreams, when I woke up to you sleeping." --Belle and Sebastian ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Sarah records
by Essexdog5 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

DOH! *everybody* knows that Brighter Now by Razorcuts was on Creation" Well, I was either confusing the Creation compilation (circa '87?) with the Sarah compilation of the same period (can't remember the title, but it had a blue and red cover, I seem to remember), or I was thinking of Sad Kaleidoscope from the Sha-La-La flexi shared with Talulah Gosh. Which no doubt you're now going to tell me was not by Razorcuts, or was not shared with TG, or never existed. Hey, and indeed, ho. 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: cover girls
by Tara Widmer 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

> 1. It appears that Ciara McLaverty is in fact the cover star on Tigermilk > and Dog on Wheels. Well that about clears that one up. >ummm, sorry Keith, that's actually Jo, an ex-girlfriend of Stuart's ... which brings me back to a previous question of mine which went unanswered -- Can anybody tell me who the cover stars on IYFS, LLPJ and 3.6.9. are? Oh I don't know why I care, i just do:-) Cheers. prospero ano nuevo por todos! taracita (who had been signing her name in e-mails to friends as "tarabelle" for the past few weeks and didn't realize the connection....hmmm) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: MTV and a resemblance. . .
by plaird 16 Jan '98

16 Jan '98

>I saw the video for 'Century of Fakers' last night on MTV's Alternative >Nation, it was pretty mad...what i want to know is... Then Northy said, >ALL I CAN SAY IS - IF YOU WANNA SEE A B&S VIDEO THEN WATCH MTV >ALTERNATIVE NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >Once again - whilst writing my emails I heard the opening tones of >Century of Fakers. Not thinking much of this as it is lodged >permanently in my CD player, I realised I was listening to MTV. Funny that, but nearly every time I watch MTV there's usually just a pile of shit on (either that or 'Lucky Man' by The Verve). I've been praying I'll tune in on one of these occasional B&S vids, but as yet nae luck. > If one must decide which cartoon characters the members of Belle and >Sebastian have a resemblance to, then it recently occurred to me how much >Stuart M. reminds me of Tintin, the reporter. Yes, and the Dog On Wheels is >Snowy, but I can not think who would be Captain Haddock. . . suggestions? >>From what I hear of Chris Geddes and his bucket, he might be suitable. Chris Geddes could be Oor Wullie from the Sunday Post (as Scottish as Barrs Irn Bru). He counts a bucket as one of his mates. Made from Girders, The Laird of East Fountainbridge. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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