- Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Holiday article (no B&S content)
by Amanda Bergman 10 Jan '98

10 Jan '98

Since someone had mentioned Holiday to the list, I figured this might be of interest. It's a review of their new album that appeared in this month's CMJ magazine. The album was "recommended if you like Magnetic Fields, Orange Juice, and Belle and Sebastian." So, here it is: ---On its last record _Ready, Steady, Go!_, Holiday had all of the makings of great lounge-pop, but couldn't piece the puzzle together. Lush horns and sweet melodies don't mean much without great hooks. On _Café Reggio_, the quartet has discovered a lot of what they were missing. Josh Gennet's spry vocal lines are immediately hummable, shimmying between the jazzy guitar lines. The album opener, "There's a Place," floats along like a dingy kissed by the summer breeze. The song might not be a classic, but it's close. With the help of Dave Max on flugelhorn, trumpet, and trombone, Holiday shows it can churn out rich and reverent arrangements using just a handful of people. Giddy rave-ups like "Something About You" and "Just Follow" are perfect fare for your next soiree at the cabana. Unfortunately, only eight out of the 12 tracks here are new. The last four are from the band's early single, "New Year's Anything," which included a cover of the Magnetic Fields' "Candy." Here the Brooklyn band rides the crest between new wave and indie rock with moderate success. Holiday has since moved its sound forward quite a bit by borrowing more from the '60s. Heck, if they had been around 30 years ago, these guys would probably be gigging with Dionne Warwick in Reno right about now.--- So, there you go. Just for anyone who was curious. I have the album, and I love it. Good stuff. ta, Amanda ------------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman(a)nwu.edu "¿En qué te ofendo, cuando sólo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas?" --Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Re: Sinister: press release
by plaird 10 Jan '98

10 Jan '98

>hey. a couple months back or less a press release was posted to the >list for 3..6..9. the one where some member of the band reckoned some >song on the new e.p. sucked or something to that effect. >could whoever posted that, or if anyone saved it, please repost it please. >thanks. >-brad Actually I didn't save the mail, but I was sent one of the press releases, so here it comes: BELLE AND SBASTIAN 3,6,9 SECONDS OF LIGHT EP RELEASED 13 OCTOBER - JEEPSTER featuring the songs: CENTURY OF FAKERS LE PASTIE DE LA BOURGEOISIE BEAUTIFUL PUT THE BOOK BACK ON THE SHELF Hello, I've been asked to write a press release for this, our latest record. I have never written one before. I have never seen any of our previous press releases. I don't have access to one, so I can't copy it. I'm in the group, I play guitar. I assume this goes out to journalists at the newspapers and the music press. I have not read that much on the group previously, but I believe we have done quite well with regards to exposure in the press: mostly positive, occasionally ecstatic and sometimes quite derisory. I don't care, I love it all. It's great reading about your group in the press, including the inevitable inaccuracies (but that somehow only adds to the fun). One thing though Much has been made of our unwillingness to do interviews and be photographed. I don't understand it. During the early summer you couldn't open a magazine without someone in the band's mug and words of wisdom staring back up at you. I suppose if we get perceived as awkward, contrary, Scottish Indie Popsters, that's the way it goes. I'm not complaining, it's only showbiz and I'm quite grateful for all the attention. Right now we are making more records and attempting to get better at playing gigs. I know we are a shambles, but we've only played about ten shows and the gaps between songs etc. are caused through ineptitude. We could never be deliberately contemptuous of an audience and we are trying to get better - HONEST! Which brings me to our latest record. It's really good, and I like it a lot. Track 2 is my favourite, although wee Chris on keyboards thinks it sucks. Track 4 is a really good song, which I think we could have done much better, although Mark at the record company went wild for it. Well, so much is in the ear of the beholder I guess. Anyway, I hope you will like it. Love Stevie. ************************************************************ and if that's not enough, I was also sent LLPJ, so here's the PR: LAZY LINE PAINTER JANE EP RELEASED 28TH JULY - JEEPSTER This is Belle and Sebastian's new single. It's about a girl called Jane, who is lazy. Belle and Sebastian are lazy too, but they don't draw lines. "It would take too much effort" (Stuart David - Belle and Sebastian). "I used to dream of making music this good, used to wish that I'd written all the songs that I'd ever fallen in love with. Then along comes this band who seem to drift effortlessly into my life, just to as effortlessly create the songs that I now fall in love with. After so long of liking half an album or half an EP, it's a bit strange not to be able to fault a whole back catalogue and they still continue adding to it. 'Photo Jenny' is all those moments when my innocent desire turned to innocent want (in the 'Pictures of Lily' vein). 'You Made Me Forget My Dreams' is the morning after you first tell someone that you love them and 'Lazy Line Painter Jane' has so far escaped meaning, It's just an epic of a song if 'just' can be used in that way. That's what these songs are to me, maybe they mean something totally different, maybe I read too much into these things. Either way I don't think I could carry on as I did, now I have these songs in my head." David Kitchen (Official Fanclub Agent) The "Lazy Line Painter Jane'EP is the second of the three summer EPs, all of which contain new material. The four songs on this EP are: LAZY LINE PAINTER JANE PHOTO JENNY YOU MADE ME FORGET MY DREAMS A CENTURY OF ELVIS ***************************************** Phew! yes, I've got a bit of spare time tonight. anyway, brad, could you save it this time? Byee! Paul <plaird(a)ndirect.co.uk> "Go to work on an Egg" - THE EGG Marketing Board ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

4 5

Sinister: ..with a knife and a bike chain...
by Funkyseb 09 Jan '98

09 Jan '98

Alistair wrote: >It might just be don't look back, the (bob) dylan film: What a shame, I did hope they were closet Dougal fans. I've never watched rock stars in films since sitting through Labarinth at an impressionable age. And have you seen that Ned Kelly rubbish? But anyway...'Small Faces' is fantastic isn't it? Especially Kevin McKidd. and that bit when that nice artist boy got beaten up by the girls seemed very Belle and Sebastiany, at least I thought so, fragility of art etc. blah blah blah. Belle and Sebastian at the Albert Hall? Nice thought, but it wouldn't be fun for the (majority) of people in the balcony. I saw the Manics there,and I was sat somewhere in the roof, between two miserable sods, and spent the whole gig staring mournfully down at the mosh pit far,far below... and from playing there and seeing concerts there, I've found it all a bit crappy, front and backstage.Still, I agree with the sentiment. Maybe the band could buy the newly redundant Britannia, and sail around the coast, playing songs for fishermen? just a thought. Seb ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Sinister: Praise from unexpected sources
by Richard North 09 Jan '98

09 Jan '98

>There is a review of one of the Manchester shows in, of all places, >today's Daily Mail. Adrian Thrills (ex-NME news ed, I think) is fulsome in >his praise for the band and the event. The only phrase I can really >remember was "more like a small orchestra than a band". >By the way, I wouldn't normally be reading such a right-wing rag, but I >found it in the pub on my lunch hour. Sorry to bring politics onto the list but this really angered me. Every time I read the NME and it say's such mindless comments as "Cast are shit.....but at least they're shit under a Labour government" I mumble under my breath "socialist rag" I only read the NME to find out about music and the latest news and stuff. This reminds me of school when all the dumb kids moronically shout "we'd vote Labour" you posh cunts. Not posh - just not dumb. I respect your right to your own opinion and stuff and of course no hard feelings - as we are all civilized people I hope. I just felt I had to offer a differing opinion Northy ( I was shocked as I read it as well - it now stands proudly on my wall! - was it the Sunday or Saturday gig?) bye ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ``Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'' - David Lloyd George. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Sinister: philosophical musing within; not wholly B&S content
by Amanda Bergman 09 Jan '98

09 Jan '98

On a slightly B&S related tangent: since Spanish classes are all that seem to be occupying my time of late, and B&S is usually what occupies my mind, I couldn't help but be reminded of B&S when we went over in class the bit of poetry that appears below. Roughy translated, it means: "How do I insult you, when I only mean to put beauty in my mind, and not my mind in the beauty?" So that's my deep thought for the day. Have a lovely weekend, everyone. ta, Amanda ------------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman(a)nwu.edu "¿En qué te ofendo, cuando sólo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas?" --Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Re: Sinister: Much too tall for a boyfriend.
by Keith Watson 09 Jan '98

09 Jan '98

-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Evans <aevans(a)env-dept.devon-cc.gov.uk> To: 'Sinster' <sinister-digest(a)majordomo.net>; 'StuartG' <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> Date: 09 January 1998 17:21 Subject: Sinister: Much too tall for a boyfriend. >>Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:07:45 +0000 (GMT) >>From: Stuart Gardiner <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> >>Subject: Sinister: All sorts really... >>Stuart G >>The tallest man in the world, apparently... > >How tall ? >-- >Adrian Evans He's about 16ft 14 inches. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

2 1

Sinister: Much too tall for a boyfriend.
by Adrian Evans 09 Jan '98

09 Jan '98

>Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:07:45 +0000 (GMT) >From: Stuart Gardiner <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> >Subject: Sinister: All sorts really... >Stuart G >The tallest man in the world, apparently... How tall ? -- Adrian Evans ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Sinister: Re: If Your Feeling Springfield
by Adrian Evans 09 Jan '98

09 Jan '98

Tag wrote : >Oakley-Doakley, >Watching Amercica's finest export (Pavement excepted) the other night, >my mind started wandering something like this: Oh no !!! here goes...why do I sense a nother round of B&S / Cartoon character comparisons. >Stuart M - Ned Flanders, who can forget Ned's solo soprano in Reverend >Lovejoy's church? My mate Julian reckons Principal Skinner cos you >can imagine Stewpot running home to Mummy. Or maybe Smithers, though >I simply can't imagine why. Readers, you decide... >Chris - Ralph Wiggum, clumsy but lovable. 'Miss Hoover, my face is on >fire' (yes, Duke - I KNOW who sang that). >Stuart D - Millhouse, obviously. >Sarah - Maggie. Dummy, 'novelty instruments' - what's the difference? >Isobel - tough one this....maybe Reverend Lovejoy's daughter whose >sweetness stole Bart's heart at Sunday School, only to reveal herself >as the naughtiest girl in the world (not my idea, I admit, but it's >pretty good) >Mick - Bleeding Gums Murphy cos they've both got the horn >Stevie - Mr Burns - 'See you in hell'...yes, Monty would approve of >that one. >Richard - Homer. He can't sing either....heheh, just kidding. >I really should get out more. I think that would be dangerous !!! Only joking love ! Keep me laughing... Adrian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Sinister: Chickfactor
by Matthew A. Neimark 09 Jan '98

09 Jan '98

>I Don't Love Anyone >Century Of Fakers >>>>>>Chickfactor Is this song chickfactor about Pam Berry's old fanzine??? Matt ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Sinister: If you're feeling Springfield
by mctag＠mcmail.com 09 Jan '98

09 Jan '98

Oakley-Doakley, Watching Amercica's finest export (Pavement excepted) the other night, my mind started wandering something like this: Stuart M - Ned Flanders, who can forget Ned's solo soprano in Reverend Lovejoy's church? My mate Julian reckons Principal Skinner cos you can imagine Stewpot running home to Mummy. Or maybe Smithers, though I simply can't imagine why. Readers, you decide... Chris - Ralph Wiggum, clumsy but lovable. 'Miss Hoover, my face is on fire' (yes, Duke - I KNOW who sang that). Stuart D - Millhouse, obviously. Sarah - Maggie. Dummy, 'novelty instruments' - what's the difference? Isobel - tough one this....maybe Reverend Lovejoy's daughter whose sweetness stole Bart's heart at Sunday School, only to reveal herself as the naughtiest girl in the world (not my idea, I admit, but it's pretty good) Mick - Bleeding Gums Murphy cos they've both got the horn Stevie - Mr Burns - 'See you in hell'...yes, Monty would approve of that one. Richard - Homer. He can't sing either....heheh, just kidding. I really should get out more. Love Tag 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

1 0