does anyone know anything about the band spiritualized? they are playing near
where i live and i want to know if they're worth seeing. who or what do they
sound like?
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Don't know if anyone here listens to Pete Tong's Radio 1 dance music
slot, but I know you would have been pleasantly surprised to hear the
gritty tones of Arab Strap if you tuned in last Friday.
It turned out to be :
David Holmes - Don't Die Just Yet (Arab Strap Remix)
Some say the dance bubble is bursting. Clubs in Birmingham are running
70s nights (i.e. Saturday Night bloody fever) again. yuk.
Has Pete been sniffing round for Jeepster stuff yet?
--Rod
a shameless hussy, musicwise
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* That girl out of Galaxie 500 ....(i don't remember her name)
Naomi Yang. Now in Damon and Naomi. BTW, the Galaxie 500 Boxset is wonderful. Also Naomi was the subject of one of my favorite Rocketship songs, Naomi and me sniff sniff. Brings back so many good memories. Think I'll listen to the 7" (ya know the one with the ballerina on the cover) this evening.
Matt
PS No B&S content ... YET. Hmmm. Let me think.... Ah Ha. I'd like to see Belle and Sebastian cover Galaxie 500's Oblivious. I think Stuart could work wonders with it.
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<<"Seeing Other People," which features snappy piano overtones that
ofcould have been played by Schroeder in Peanuts, demonstrates singer/
songwriter Stuart Murdoch's wit and nostalgia:>>
That is genius. I had never thought of the Vince Giraldi (sp???) connection before. It made me smile this morning.
Paige
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Not a lot going on is there? I'm flying down to London today and will hopefully be meeting Robert tonight before I have to hotfoot it off to the thrills and spills that is the Microsoft Professional Developers conference tomorrow where we all bow down and pay homage the lord that is Bill Gates.
Peter, my mates used to love the sprint through Kelvingrove park after a night at the boozer a few years ago. I can just see them now, like Linford Christie both of them.
Not much going on in the land of B+S at the moment is there - looks like we're just going to have to talk about something else then I suppose. Anyone see Verve on Jools Holland? I thoroughly enjoyed that last Saturday.
Cheers,
Keith.
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Sinister: Manchester & Arab Strap
A FRIEND (ah6991(a)bristol.ac.uk)
Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:54:26 +0000 (GMT)
>So whats the age limit on the gigs? My little brother is
>fourteen and a completely devoted fan - is there any chance
>of him getting in?
>And are they gonna be played in churches again?
um, i don't know. licensed venues are usually 18+ but
manchester town hall (where the gig is) isn't your usual
venue so you may be lucky. i've noticed young kids in a
couple of the gigs (glasgow and new york to be exact) but i
think they are related to the band in some way so...
actually, someone mentioned them playing cathedrals but
stuart m mentioned in the tour diary thing from the mm that
the sound is really soupy and they'd sound dreadful so...
>I bought an Arab Strap single called The Clearing earlier
>this year which claims to feature Isobel Campbell and Chris
>Geddes - is this true?
no, they lied on the sleeve... of course it's true. and i
think it says on there what they do - isobel cello, chris
keyboards of some sort. chris and stuart m. helped out on
the arab strap peel session as well, keyboards and piano
again, maybe backing vox.
speaking of which, i noticed 'the smell of outdoor cooking'
has been released. is this the peel session version and / or
is there any b&s involvement? i didn't buy it at the time
and it's 'limited' so... and there's that remix they did for
someone else which sounds like aiden just speaks over the
top of a track that was formerly an instrumental. good
though. 'i tell you, it's always the same girl'...
>Also, would it sound stupid if I said that having bought
>the Mogwei album (cos you lot told me to) I just don't get
>it? Should I just listen to it more or is it's strangeness
>it's charm?
are you a nuclear physicist perchance? no, that was alistair
and paul both of whom belong to the list's old people
brigade so you should take what they say with a pinch of
salt if you're one of the youngsters. the older people here,
as i've pointed out before, have strange(r) tastes in music.
i have big theories about this but someone's already had a
go at me for mentioning it so i'll keep them to myself. and
yeah, listening to things more is always helpful.
>For your census thing I'm 19 and a student of Physics and
>Philosophy
fuck, i was only joking about the pysicist thing too
(because of the fact you used strangeness and charm in the
same sentence).
andy
returning from self imposed list exile for a few minutes...
"How's everything?"
"Good. You?"
"Oh, beautiful."
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If the ball does begin to roll, I'd like to point out that
what I wrote was intended to encourage others to at least
join in. Some of what I scribbled down was completer
cobblers, meant to provoke corrections or feverish defences
of some aspect or other of Belle and Sebastian's music.
Other things that I wrote I would be willing to defend to
the ends of the indie earth. Let's just say that Mike
Oldfield really shouldn't be there.
If nobody else wants to play, I'd like the oppurtunity to
rewrite it properly, hopefully following the suggestions of
you lot, and then we could send it in as a joint effort. The
25 quid could either go to David and Katrina's computer
appeal ot to hire a private mouse detective to look for
Duke's missing cat.
But I would definitely encourage others to have a go first.
Somebody (probably called Paul) could either mix and match
parts, or we could send in a load of ideas and let the
professionals do as they see fit.
Whatever happens I think it would be a shame to let this
oppurtunity pass by. I shall sustain a huge beamer if we
actually pull it off, so to speak.
Does anyone (Katrina?) actually know the dates of their
formation and so on?
Peter
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I heard a conversation in a CD shop recently to the effect that a radio
station in Danbury CT, USA had a vinyl copy of Tigermilk -- when this woman
went in to tape it, it was missing from where it had been the week before.
So we can assume there is a person of dubious honesty with a copy somewhere
in Connecticut.
That same CD shop had 3 copies of Tigermilk, but had no idea who B&S were nor
what it sounded like as they had never played it (because then it has to go
into the "used" bin). Once IYFS came out, there was a mad search to find the
Tigermilks, but they were, alas, gone...
Me, I blame it all on the fact that we have really crappy commercial radio
here in the states, and never get to hear anything wonderful when it's
brand, shiny new. If radio was worth it's salt the DJs would be looking for
new songs to introduce us to rather than beating the same old stuff to death.
B&S are only played semi-regularly on one station in this area, and that's
only on Sunday night (WNEW-FM on the Vin Scelsa show). Although one day I
ran out to the bank from work, and when I was leaving the drive-thru "The Fox
in the Snow" came on WFUV from Fordham University -- it was so wonderful to
hear it while driving that I had to drive around the block and go back to the
office via the scenic route to hear it all. And my son played them regularly
while interning on Fairfield University radio this summer -- but at 100
watts, it was hard to pick them up outside a small circle of friends.
on and on...............
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Because he hasn't got round to it yet and is probably too shy too divulge the information, let me tell you all that
NICK FORGACS
of London England owns 2 copies of Tigermilk and is about to buy a third. One has never left the sleeve it was purchased in. Take a bow Nick!
Neither are for sale.
xxxxxxx will
'i know what people say, im a heartbreaker, thats just my way.'
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>By the way, and I hope nobody minds me mentioning this, but the >programme
>I was working on was called The Adam and Joe Show and the second >series
>returns on November 22nd 11.00pm on Channel 4. Its really funny and >Adam
>likes Belle and Sebastian, especially 'Expectations' and puts it on all
>his compilation tapes.
ooh, cool. I loved that programme. I found an episode on tape the other
week (the one with Neil Hannon in the Vinyl Justice bit) and it was even
better than i remembered.
>>the internet movie database will let you search for
>>birthdates. 16th january is given by:
>>
>>http://us.imdb.com/M/on-this-day?day=16&month=January
>>
>>and turns up kate moss, john carpenter (and about 50 or so
>>others). it'll also show you deaths and marriages and films
>>that opened: the apartment (one of my favourite films)
>>opened (albeit in sweden) on your birthday in 1961.
>>
>>andy
>>sat here, bored, waiting for email...
>
>I've just done that for my birthday 24/ 5 / 77 and it turns up
>libby kennedy from neighbours and eric cantona
Least it was people you'd heard off...the 2 andy mentioned were the only
2 on my list i'd ever heard of, just about. Although ginger rogers did
get married.
>I've just done 3/1/79 and got nothing. Luckily,I know who I share a >birthday with. Unfortunately,it's Michael Schumacher.
Do not slag. The bloke is the best driver F1's seen in a long time.
> They had a song
>called Whistling in the Dark, about the miners' strike,
so did They Might be giants, but thats entirely beside the point.
In fact my whole message is alarmingly off topic. Must fix this.
In a minute...i've got a review from a magazine called Magnet but i
refuse to post it until i've read all the digests i've got, in case
someone else has. So. Just be patient.
>3) i'm lovely friends with a)Chris Nettleton in the Nubiles. and b)
~>with David Ryder Prangly from Rachel Stamp (anyone ever heard of
>either?)
Christ, my flatmate's a MAD Rachel Stamp fan ever since she saw them at
T in the Park in the summer... don't like them too much myself. But his
hair is cool...
>WOW!!!!!! What a fantastic idea. Belle & Sebstain in a cathedral!!!!!!! >It
>would sound amazing.
just acquired a playstation and thanks to the funky audio CD options i
can now find out what B&S sounded like in a church. And the answer
is...shit. But that might just be the playstation.
Right. Have now trawled through all the digests for the past week (see
what happens when you get ill?) and haven't seen the review. So i might
as well post it :)
from Magnet magazine sept/oct 97
Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
those in the know swear by Belle And Sebastian, a soft-spoken
seven-piece combo from Glasgow. Given the band's favorable notices in
the U.K and U.S. press and its ascent on the college music charts,
cynics might expect the worst. Well, just forget all that - If You're
Feeling Sinister is a clever, timeless record to get enthusiastic over.
Starting with any number of reference points (Bob Geldof, Lou Reed and
Ray Davies), Belle And Sebastian constructs meditative yet frisky
soft-pop numbers punctuated by swells of cello, violin, sax and piano.
"Seeing Other People," which features snappy piano overtones that
ofcould have been played by Schroeder in Peanuts, demonstrates singer/
songwriter Stuart Murdoch's wit and nostalgia: "We lay on the bed there/
Kissing just for practice/ Could we please be objective/ Case the other
boys are queuing up behind us." There's too much Morrissey for comfort
in the not-as-melancholy-as-it-sounds "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying"
which finds Murdoch claiming "Nobody writes them like they used to/ So
it may as well be me." Expect many more conversations throughout 1997,
particulrly when music types compose their year-end top-10 lists.
John Elasser
So there you go. it sounds very familiar...never mind.
love and stuff
caz
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