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Sinister: Kissing Someone Else's Reflection
by Forest Pines 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

Hello, Sinister! "This Isn't Just A Modern Rock Song" I was idling away my Sunday afternoon, as you do, scanning briefly through my old, almost-dead email account. It's almost-dead because it's flooded with spam in Japanese, advertising, well, I don't know because it's all Japanese. Scattered through it, though, there are occasional pearls, like a sixpence in the Christmas pudding. Like the occasional Sinister email! Gayle E Anderson posted back in October. Now there's a name that brings back memories, of picnics in Kelvingrove Park and Princes Street Gardens, and gigs at the Barrowlands and the QMU. It's bizarre to think that I've been on this list over nine years now. "Not everybody's cup of tea, she would admit to me" And I'm a very different person to who I was back then, in some ways. I'm not the person I wanted to be, but maybe I'm the person I should have tried doing. I mean, being. I'm sure I've told you all this before at various points. Time for an ink polaroid break. An anonymous-looking hotel room, fairly tidy, but with an unmade bed. Two people are in it: a man, sitting on the edge of the bed; and a woman kneeling between his legs, looking up at him. He has one hand on her shoulder, and the other is holding a large, heavy-looking camera to his eye, pointing down at her. Outside the window, you can see the University spire, not too far away. "Seeing other people" I don't visit Glasgow very often nowadays. I was up in October, and it was my first visit for years. Visting an online friend, we retrod all the streets, and it felt strange to be back there after so long. I was hoping to bump into Stevie Jackson on the underground, or Sarah in Nice'n'Sleazy's. I didn't even make it to Nice'n'Sleazy's, even, being distracted by the secret fetish club down the road. Incidentally, I only recently found out that Stevie was formerly in a band called The Moondials. Now there's a damn good name for a band, especially if you could persuade your lead singer to change his/her name to Minty Cane. Anyone who has the faintest idea what I'm talking about, please send in a postcard to the usual address. End of part two. This ink polaroid is a lot more recent. It's a moonlit, deserted beach at midnight. There are two people, pale-faced, dark-clothed, looking at each other. Not the same people as before - well, the girl isn't, at least. She has her arms behind her back, as if her wrists have been tied or chained together somehow, and a dreamy look on her face. "Now we're photogenic we don't stand a chance" I do come across people who have heard of B&S occasionally, but not often. A new phone arrived the other week, with a truly dire selection of ringtones. So, I uploaded "Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie" onto it straight away, as soon as I'd worked out how. Now I'm just waiting for someone to phone me. And then someone to overhear it ringing, in the hope that they'll say "What's that ringtone?" "Oh, it's this really good Scottish band who have been around ten years or so now." It's ten years this month since I first bought a B&S CD. How times have changed. It isn't ten years yet since I lost my virginity. I didn't even own a PC, never mind know what an MP3 was. I'd heard of the internet, but never seen it. Time to put If You're Feeling Sinister on the stereo, and remember just how different ten years ago was. xx FP www.symbolicforest.com/blog +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: kittenmouse radio is, again, on the radio
by Andrea Young 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hey everybody, I don't know if anyone remembers, because it was so long ago, but Kittenmouse Radio is going back on the air after a two year hiatus. I'll be broadcasting once a week on Saturday afternoons at 1 pm, on 1450 AM in Portland, Oregon and online at kpsu.org (that means Pacific Standard Time for anyone who wants to listen online from other time zones). I'll be waiting for your requests, which you can send by email, aim, and bottle mail (can't guarantee that I'll get the last one, though). You can phone me, too, if long distance charges don't bother you. Anyway, so as not to bore you anymore, details on all of this can be found at myspace.com/kittenmouse. Hope to see ya there! d(-_-)b -andrea +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: 10 Wellington Place
by David Moore 03 Dec '06

03 Dec '06

Hi All, Thanks for improving my link there, mmmm. I see Struan's rubbers are up to nearly £80 now - well done! I wonder if they will go any higher? Or maybe a few of you fragrant Sinisterines might favour owning some fancy footwear from Bowie, a Beatle, a Rolling Stone, a Smith or even Clive Dunn? Check out http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfcclZ1QQfcdZ1QQfclZ3QQfrppZ50QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQf tidZ2QQsassZgivelandminesthebootQQsbrsrtZd ! Did you know that favourite Australian popsters & wonderful human beings Sodastream are touring the UK soon? No? Well, here are the dates: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TBA, Oxford, United Kingdom Fri Jan 05th 2007 St Giles Church, London, United Kingdom Sat Jan 06th 2007 7pm With: The Clientele St Giles-in-the-Fields Church 60 St Giles High Street London WC2H 8LG Nearest tube : Tottenham Court Road Tel : 0207 240 2532 Advance £8 We Got Tickets http://www.wegottickets.com/event/14228 Ticketweb http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=188816 Head Of Steam, Newcastle, United Kingdom Mon Jan 08th 2007 With: Pete Dale and The Beta-Males Tickets: £3 at the door 2 Neville Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5EN Bacchus, Glasgow, United Kingdom Tue Jan 09th 2007 80 Glassford Street Glasgow G1 1UR The Social, Nottingham, United Kingdom Wed Jan 10th 2007 7pm With: Monkey Swallows the Universe and Airport Girl Tickets: £6 http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/shows/EEyFukuFlZxHVvpKEw.shtml The Grapes, Sheffield, United Kingdom Thu Jan 11th 2007 With: Slow Down Tallahassee and Airport Girl 80 Trippet Lane Sheffield S1 4EL Kro Bar, Manchester, United Kingdom Fri Jan 12th 2007 Tickets: £5 325 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PG www.wegottickets.com The Luminaire, London, United Kingdom Sat Jan 13th 2007 7:30pm With: Monkey Swallows the Universe and Airport Girl Tickets: £7 (advance) £8 (door) 311 High Road, Kilburn London NW6 7JR http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=187739 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nice. Playing a Palladian church with The Clientele on the bill as well looks like a top night out to me. I reckon I'll get away with spamming the list - no one will notice amongst all this other traffic anyway! Love to you all, David Moore Chelmsford, UK -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.6/565 - Release Date: 02/12/2006 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Step into Stuart's shoes ...
by David Moore 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

Hello Old Friend, ... or his boots, at least. I post this at the request of Sally who is working on behalf of MAG, the mine clearance charity (if this breaches sinister etiquette, then please feel free to chastise me in as painful a manner as you can manage, O Fragrant Princess Honey) "Stuart Murdochs wellies up for grabs in charity auction on eBay A pair of Stuart Murdochs wellies, worn at Glastonbury 2004, go on sale on internet site eBay at 12 noon today (Tuesday 28th November 2006) in a charity auction to raise money for MAG (Mines Advisory Group). Shoes have been donated by 60 high-profile male and female celebrities, from the world of pop, film, TV, sport and the arts. MAG employs more than 2,500 people worldwide to help provide safer futures for lives affected by conflict in countries such as Lebanon, Angola, Afghanistan and Cambodia. MAG has cleared millions of landmines and unexploded bombs across the world and saved millions of lives and limbs with its programme of conflict recovery. The MAG auction can be seen on eBay at www.ebay.co.uk and www.magclearsmines.org. It will last for ten days until 8th December 2006. Please bid generously!" Er, that's it. I hope that you are all leading happy & productive lives, Love David +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Winter boob-spree
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.nhs.uk 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Hiya! What's up brothers. Hope all are well. I'm doing okay except I still don't know the identity of the REALLY CAMP GUY from Coachella whom I spoke of and was looking for in my last e-mail. I'm sad about that, but, life has to go on, albeit really-camp-guylessly. Sigh. It's good really though, because the winter has finally arrived and GIRLS are once again wearing cutesy cutesy winter coats and scarves that are almost always so adorable. So these days I just spend my bus journeys at work telling all these girls how cute they look and giving them each a massive hug, and they seem to appreciate that. I like to think that I'm making London a much happier place. So yes, speaking of hugs, I really miss the sound of a bowling ball hugging the path on a bowling lane to the strike zone, and the eventual explosion of the pins as the ball hits -- and it just reminded me that International Sinister Bowling Day is happening again, soon. It's the final weekend of the year, which makes it conveniently the 30th December, when nothing at all happens, nor should they happen, apart from ten-pin-bowling. So I hope you will all be doing that, and maybe some of you want to come with me. Let me know if you do. Especially if you're a guy who is really camp, and was at Coachella screaming your lungs out when B+S played Twattybus. That's all! Ken ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator(a)uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: countries beginning with an S...
by stacey dahling 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Like Scotland. Or SWEDEN, which is well on its way to being the new Scotland, music-wise. Apologies in advance for yet another shameless plug; but actually I don't think I've used my free shameless plug card yet, and besides, it's also got content! Kinda. For those of you still managing to lurk around these parts, or who are not playing the Myspace game (shock! horror!), hello, my name is Stacey and I run a club night here in Glasgow called Sounds of Sweden, featuring - you guessed it - the delectable sounds of Sweden, both on the decks and on stage. You may have read about us in The Guardian or... hahah sorry, always wanted to say that, and it's kinda true... ANYWAY. Our next 'do is tomorrow/tonight depending on when you read this - Thursday, Oct 19, at the Admiral Bar in Waterloo Street, Glasgow, featuring the swoonworthy resonating deep soulful sounds of The Fine Arts Showcase and Blood Music. I've got loads of savoury titbits about both bands, but I'll spare you all that just now. It's all up on our website, with music samples, photos (they're cute! as par the course with these Swedes it seems. mmmm yum!) and other fun stuff - http://www.myspace.com/soundsofsweden In between, I'll be spinning some choice poppy pop pop, including, perhaps, a Swedish cover of Photo Jenny? (see! content! more below, I swear...) While I'm at it, I might as well plug next month as well and get it over with in one e-mail. Besides, it's a BIG ONE and VERY EXCITING and I can barely shut up about it. We've got the amazing, stunning, incredible Hello Saferide, with Maia Hirasawa and Glasgow's own best-kept secret, The Poems, whose album, recently released on US label Minty Fresh, features guest vocals by none other than former B&S bird Isobel Campbell! Maybe she'll even put in an appearance at the gig. Ooooh eeee! I suppose I should mention the date eh? Wednesday, Nov 15. Same place. Tickets available in advance (yup, we so classy like that) from Tickets Scotland or Monorail. Or at tomorrow/tonight's gig (minus booking fee! Bonus!). Phew. It's over. I feel so dirty. Won't happen again, I promise. Well, at least not anytime soon. Forgive me? -s _________________________________________________________________ The new Windows Live Toolbar helps you guard against viruses http://toolbar.live.com/?mkt=en-gb +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Offbeat Belle and Sebastian Night, Sheffield UK, Friday 17th November
by Dr C B Stride 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

** Offbeat ** Sheffield's legendary indiepoppunk night presents... .: the 8th annual Belle and Sebastian Special :. playing the usual Offbeat mix of classic indie, punk-pop, C86 and new indiepop underground plus loads of Belle and Sebastian tracks... Friday 17th November, 2006 from 9pm to 1am @ The Raynor Lounge, Sheffield University Students' Union Admission £3.00 Free Lollipops, plus Belle and Sebastian stickers! Plus Belle and Sebastian playlist bingo - win a signed B&S CD! For more info' on Offbeat such as admission info for non-students, other dates, past playlists, reviews, etc, check out http://www.offbeatsheffield.com/ -- C.B.Stride(a)Sheffield.ac.uk *** daytime: 0114 2223262 *** *** FAX: 0114 2727206 *** "Watford FC Supporters - South Yorkshire branch" +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: c86 at the ICA
by Krister Bladh 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

hi! anyone else going to the saturday night gigs with roddy frame, phil wilson and wolfhounds? fancy meeting up? i'm going down to london (from glasgow) for this, but i need somewhere to sleep so any help in that area will be deeply appreciated! now they're kicking me out of the library... love chris -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: To pee myself completely
by kenneth.chu＠uclh.nhs.uk 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hello, I couldn't get the song "My My Metrocard" off my head this morning. I cunningly changed the "Metrocard" bit to "Oystercard", hehe, and the "mimimaiamfdmkfadkafmk wah wah wah" bit I changed cunningly to "vviaiiaviviaiviavia neh neh neh". Ich bin ein Geniuser. I watched some bits of Channel 4's 100 Greatest Albums yesterday. It was grand - or rather, it was OK, it wasn't that good except for they were building up to the no. 1, I made a wild guess that it would be Radiohead's OK Computer, and I got it right! Which means really I'm le genîus of music, or maybe just un geniuso del voting. But then I didn't predict that U2's The Joshua Tree was going to be #2, a non-prediction based on the fact that it's shit. So you know, swings and roundabouts. There were no B+S in it at all :( Coldplay's truly excellent debut album - Parachutes - did make it though, so I'm glad. Anyway, the point of this email is that: later on that evening on C4, they showed snippets of a Coachella(?) festival from the past, with loads of bands and stuff, it was funny because they showed like White Stripes playing tremendous guitar, and some DJs scratching discs meticulously, etc., then, B+S came on and they showed the bit where someone was cocking up the recorder bit of TWATTYBUS and where stuart couldn't remember the words. I thought that was really funny. That wasn't the point of the email either though, it was just a prelude. The point is that, at the end of the song, Stuart improvised the ending of the song and changed it from the bit about celebrities with cigarette ashes to something about foo fighters, and the crowd got REALLY EXCITED, in particular, there was one REALLY CAMP guy right in the front, with a red scarf and red tshirt, SCREAMING in a REALLY CAMP WAY. Um, were you that really camp guy? If so can you get in touch? I really like you and I think we should be friends. That's all. Ken ********************************************************************** This email is confidential and intended solely for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If this email was not intended for you please notify the UCLH Mail Administrator at mail.administrator(a)uclh.org. This footnote confirms that the email and attachments contained no viruses when they left UCLH. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Channel 4... nowish
by honey＠missprint.org 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Hello sweeties. For anyone in the UK, sitting at home and sipping cocktails, Channel 4 News seems to be a doing a thing on B&S together with bands like Frank Ferguson in a few minutes time once they've given the customary time to the government to stigmatise a few more Muslim communities. Might be on tonight's news too. Dunno. Sorry for breaking as many list rules as I can in two minutes flat. Honey x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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