I think that means "happy new year!" in Mexican or something, at
least that's what my baby brother put on all his Xmas cards.
S'nice to be back on the list again after the holidays, with a whole
new list of (increasingly anal) topics to wade through. A couple of
thoughts:
A big hello to all the sweet kids I met in Manchester, and to all
those I didn't 'cause I was working both afternoons. Saturday night
sure was pretty shambolic, though still perversely enjoyable, but,
jeez, Sunday was something, Seems the whole "Was it crap/a
rip-off/illegal/a disgrace?" angle's been covered while I was away,
and that I may be an easy pleased, indie-schmindie, hopelessl
devotee, but I'd happily pay twenty-odd quid again and again for them
to start playing 'Modern Rock Song' as I ran in from the cold, and
for Stuart M to sing the line about Mark Twain just as we arrived,
breathless, at the top of the stairs.
Please don't anyone rise to the bait and write in to the weeklies
about the bad reviews. Tony Naylor's Saturday piece was pretty
spot-on in parts, and Steven Wells... Don't hate him 'cause of his
abonimable taste. Don't hate him 'cause he thinks he's the Bill Hicks
of music journalism. Just despise him for inflicting the terrible
mugshot damage above his column every week, in all its mono-brow
glory. Tweezers, man, tweezers.
Oh, and can anybody help me out? Suggestions for things to ask Steven
Pastel tonite, when I've to interview him for the paper, would be
much appreciated, so's I don't just blurt out crap like "Gee whizz,
you know Steve malkmus, wow".
Yours gratefully,
Joseph
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hi,
i've been noticing a lot of questions about tiger milk. I'm pretty
sure no one has posted this, on the b and s website it says that
tigermilk is going to be rereleased on cd late spring early summer.
Check out their site for more info.
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See if your singing "Judy.." to yourself do you apply lip trumpet? Or
is this just me?
I saw a fellow singing in the Scotia bar once with his guitar. He broke
into the most fantastic lip trumpet solo, in the style of Miles Davis.
That's the only time i've Been to the Scotia. The singer was fantastic
but I nearly got a doin for not knowing the half time Celtic score. I
can do the start of Minnie the Moocher like the Blues Brothers. I can
also do a wah-wah effect.
Is lip trumpet how stuart tells Mick what he wants to hear? Or does he
notate? Hmm i notice Isobel has a wee music pad in front of her in one
of the photees. Does she jam good? With weird and gilly?
It's a bit quite today after last nights madness, isn't it? I've nearly
comprised this whole letter with questions, haven't I? Love without
sound?
> Tag, Susannah, Keith, Peter Miller and Chris Leonard have
> carte-blanche to post stuff about their hamsters because they make me
> giggle. They have earned their spurs.
And I bet we're all wicked in bed too, eh big boy? What does
carte-blanche mean? I used to have a hamster called Tom Jones. I had
it for a year, then I lost interest in it and all its fur fell out. A
friend of mine has had 9 hamsters, and they all killed themselfs. One
of them impaled itself on a bit of cage that it had chewn through and
bent to a dangerous angle. Another of them chewed through a power
cable.
Johnny 'Belle' Mathis
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Dina Passman wrote:
i know i will offend some by saying this, but the walker brothers kick
scott's solo ass by a mile. (i have yet to hear the jacques brel
record-so hold your tongues!)
You obviously haven't listened to much solo Scott Walker, then. All of his classic early lp's (1 - 4) contain at least 2 or 3 Jaques Brel songs. And they
are all quite wonderful, especially, as Adam says, 'Scott 4'.
Nigel
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>Jeez,
>What's going on? I'm now getting as many digests as I was getting
>mails two weeks ago. Don't you people ever sleep?
Funny you should say that, but I'm a genuine insomniac who is currently still f***ed off my head on last nights Nitrazepam thinking, "mmmmm...It's going to take me at least till 5o'clock in the morning to read this back-log of digests.
Actually it's not very funny at all, but i'm sure all you sick bastards will have a giggle at my expense.
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>3 Guy Chadwick - what a tosser pt4: "It's going to be a long hot
>summer/gonna stay in gonna be a bummer"
What about the amazing clanger : "Destroy the heart she said, I'm gonna bake
you a loaf of bread"
Keith.
Actually : I love the House of Love and don't really care if he's a tosser
or not (which he evidently is)
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More stuff:
1 Ahhh.. the old 'licking railings' conundrum raises its head once more. I
always thought it was something to do with 'Irn Bru' which our scottish
brethren persist in insisting is made from 'girders'... If you're going to
_drink_ bits of metal, what harm can a quick lick do?
2 On University Challenge last night, Jeremy Paxman told us that Saint Lucy
is always depicted carrying a plate of eyeballs. Can her earthly
representative, Tag, confirm this?
3 Guy Chadwick - what a tosser pt4: "It's going to be a long hot
summer/gonna stay in gonna be a bummer"
4 I think a B&Smobile is a fantastic idea... they could drive around like
those crazy kids in the new Levis ads. Incidentally, I've discovered that
the song from that ad is by The Lilys... is the album worth buying, anyone?
5 Following on from Andy's recommendation of the Iain Banks radio play, did
you know that BBC Scotland are screening an adaptation of Alan Warner's
"Morvern Callar" this year? If anybody hasn't already read this book, I
urge them to buy it now. It's like Catcher in the Rye crossed with, um, an
Arab Strap song. Steer clear of the follow-up, "These Demented Lands",
however. Because it's crap.
6 I'm grateful to everybody for all the Northern Soul info. How
educational! We ought to get some kind of Arts Council grant...
7 S Wells wrote: "This ever-so-slappable crowd of shit-eating
indie-schmindie sheep ". Whaddya say we all pop round to Kings Reach Tower
and do some slapping of our own, eh gang?
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>Dear "nicely jumpered skinny students",
>
>I just laughed my surrogate tits off. Doesn't he know everyone needs
>a bosom for a pillow?
I've never been able to figure exactly why Steven Wells has a job at a music
paper, and not at the likes of Living Marxism, I'd personally get
embarrassed at trying to tie in his own brand of "politics" (i.e. opposing
absolutely anything anyone in a position of power does) into pieces of music
that's got nothing to do with party politics. He makes a point occassionally
that all music is political which in a sense may well be true, but it
certainly isn't party political, a topical example being Ian Brown's new
single which appears to be about the conquest of space being used for
military purposes - would swells therefore point out that Brown is a
communist perhaps? (Unlikely - cause he's the only one with the moral
highground). Oh and remember kids... vote for Scargill [crap attempt at
irony - remember, my degree's in computer science]
Oh dear, I'm ranting again... right two more things.
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.
2. There was a tape on the NME a month ago or so which I immediately threw
in the bin without listening to as they're normally shite, however my mate
Kev last night played me a track off it by Ultrasound which was fucking
brilliant. If anyone's got the tape out there, go and have a listen if you
haven't done already cause it's great!
Cheers,
Keith.
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Hello all you people. I am extremely worried about certain
members of the list who appear to be showing symptoms of technical
competence and awareness of mechanical issues in relation to music
recording systems:
<<A CD player reads a single circuit on a CD and the sum of all
the bits on that circuit doesn't match the checksum stored at the end of
that circuit then it will skip. All oversampling CD players do is
attempt to read the circuit a number of times in an attempt to get it
correct before actually playing it, they will also skip if unable to
match the checksum.>>
This is very scary, and should be stopped as soon as possible,
preferably by electro-shock "therapy". Or with huge amounts of
psycho-repressive drugs. Or something.
On the subject of mental health, did anyone apart from
me and my friend Charlotte watch or remember the series Taking Over The
Asylum which was on a couple of years ago on BBC 2? For those who
didn't, it was about a double-glazing salesman who was also an amateur
radio DJ who got relegated to the post of spare-time Station Head at a
mental hospital in Glasgow, and the various japes (suicide, job loss,
Spike Milligan) which ensued. I just mention it because
a)it was fantashtic;
b)it had a kind of B&S feel to it, now that I come to think
about it, in the sort of hopelessly grim romanticism which we all know
and love.
Regarding the Albert Hall:
> There are also choir seats and some really bad sightline seats which
> you
> can't really sell.
>
>>I KNOW! I was in the Schools Prom in 1996 (ah, when I was but a wee
A-level student. How time flies) and the choir I was in was placed in
those selfsame choir stalls (not unnaturally) which proceeded to terrify
us: we were very high up, we were next to the bass organ pipes (pretty
fuckin' loud, since you ask), the leg-room is cripplingly absent, and we
were all in permanent danger of leaning too far out while standing up to
sing and falling right out of the bastards. These pieces of furniture
are NOT comfortable places to be, take my word for it, darlings.
Having said that, however, the Hall itself is a lovely place,
although I'm not quite sure what purpose the giant ceramic mushrooms
suspended from the ceiling serve.
> Hmm, I really do think that Radiohead fans just don't like music
>
>>Thank you very much, mister. I personally hate all tunefulness, truth
and beauty. I only like eardrum-shattering squeals and strange
clankings sounds, and would much prefer it if all pop music vocals were
done by the computerised voice from Fitter, Happier. Then, oh if only,
the world would be a much better place. Oh, and it goes without saying
that I revile Belle & Sebastian too. Obviously. I'll just go off and
drown some kittens now shall I, with Pablo Honey playing in the
background.
> 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.
>
>>No no no! Stuart is the cartoon Sebastian from the 80s series, still
looking for his mum and getting into amusing situations with circuses
and the like,
> and the Dog On Wheels is
> Snowy
>
>>OBVIOUSLY, it's Belle, the Pyreneean Mountain dog from the series.
Good grief, have you no soul?
People have written to the list about a 70s live-action series
called Belle & Sebastian, which I, not being born until 1978, did not
glimpse. Was the later cartoon series based on the live-action one, or
is it a particularly spooky coincidence?
HoneyPaul, great online photties of the band at Manchester. Mmm, I
never knew looking up La Murdoch's nostrils would be so alluring... Are
there going to be more pictures? I particularly want to see the lauded
vixen Mick, and also Wee Chris's pantaloons.
Anyway, I believe I'm supposed to be going down to the darkroom to
develop some pictures of a wall or something, so I'd better go now.
Oh, can anyone recommend a starter album of Scott Walker? Neil Hannon
does sound awfully like him, doesn't he?
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I lost your email-adress. Could you please write me to my email, so that I
can write you back. Couldn't find your adress from University of Edinburgh
pages.
Sami
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