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Re: Sinister: i don't want to be afraid to say....
by Aruni J 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '02

busstoppers wrote: >and then i recently bought aberdeen's "homesick and happy to be >here" and am once again in love. I just got it and love it, too!...especially the second track (Sink or Float), which, if you have the time and inclination, you should listen to at http://www.betterlookingrecords.com/aberdeen.htm. My only problem with the album is that track seven sounds suspiciously like the Magnetic Fields' "Take Ecstasy With Me," but then there are worse things to aspire to, huh? :) Wasn't the lead singer of Aberdeen on Sinister for awhile? Am I making that up? Is she still on? Hmm, maybe I shouldn't have said that about, er, paying homage to other people's work...Oh well. No harm intended. I _do_ like the album, after all! **North America Tape Tree** Not to let the UK sinisterines have all the fun, would anyone be interested in a North American tape circle/tree/whatever-you-call-it? No deadlines yet--I just want to see if there's any interest. If so, email me back. Toodles, Aruni _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: i don't want to be afraid to say....
by bus stoppers 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '02

hey everyone... i am here sweating in the computer lab at school. why, with all of this electronic equipment producing enough heat...why...would you not put the air on? okay. there's my one moment of bitching. you know you have an addiction problem when you need to have it at least once a day... the whole storytelling chain has kind of faded out, but i have to talk about it right now. i was writing the "review" for it for my zine the other night, but while listening to it before i realized that my english class had been cancelled, i had an epiphany. it's completely marvelous and i LOVE it. i had listened to it before, but i did that thing where you skip around and only listen to a couple of the songs. but since the disc-man was in my back pack while i was walking, i couldn't. i was forcing myself to listen to the whole thing and really get the album that everyone has been raving about it. i don't really care if there is a possiblity that i only love it as much as i do now because i wanted to love it so much...because i don't think that is what happened to me today while i was sitting on the bricks in the warm sunshine. it happened at the moment while the clip of scooby telling that guy his movie was a hit and then big john shaft started in. i got it! finally. then while i listened to it again...i really did get it. the football song and the storytelling song...i sat up and looked up and smiled. it has been a nice afternoon i have to say :) and then i recently bought aberdeen's "homesick and happy to be here" and am once again in love. how exciting is it when you buy a cd with no knowledge, when you spend the money on a whim with high hopes (not expectations) and you can listen to it track by track and your heart and mind slowly open up to a green, lush field of daisies. i love daisies too. i love. sara ===== all the people'd stare as if we were both quite insane someday my name and his are going to be the same __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: this is how it felt to be loved
by Mark Hester 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '02

Hello my name is Mark and I....you can guess the rest. No reporting back from the bowling then? Did it happen? Well anyway, I'll rewind even further back to Thursday night, when I came up to London on the Magic Bus for TIHIFTBL. Even tho I travelled from afar, I still managed to arrive obscenely early, which meant that, as it was a pretty nice evening, I decided to sit outside in the Famous Cock's (ahem) garden. This is not usually an activity fraught with difficulty, but I discovered that the vast majority of the tables which were not occupied by anyone else were within blasting/deafening distance of the pubs HUGE extractor fan (do they run a sideline designing the most aerodynamic cars the world has ever seen?). The only one which wasn't in danger of being blown away looked very wonky indeed. It was sufficiently close to the perpendicular to balance a pint, but it also looked very silly and so I attempted to right it, without success. It was then that I noticed the graffiti on the fence, which read "It's Heriditary: If Your Parents Had No Children, Neither Will You". Can't argue with that. At this point I decided to go back inside again when I met Mark C. We exchanged views on (im/e)migration issues (MH: "everyone's moving to London", MC: "*from*, you mean!"). Incidentally, why doesn't the sig. file for Glasgae Indie read "We're Going Oot!"? Shortly after that, loads of ppl arrived, including Mr & Mrs Carsmile, Ken, Liz D, Marianna, Maddie, Paul, Greg, Stefano and a Man in Black who was neither Smith nor Jones. We ventured downstairs to the Buffalo Bars (why bars plural?) which was bigger than I expected. There were also quite a few mirrors which was a bit disconcerting. There was nuffink on the loo doors to indicate which was which. The playlist in Ian's post included Felt, although I don't rememeber any. I always develop an uncharacteristic shyness when it comes to asking djs for requests. I do remember J&TDOH, the original versh of "Tainted Love" and the song Spearmint sampled for "Sweeping the Nation". Harvey Williams played Trembling Blue Stars and the Field Mice - is this allowed? There was some Lloyd Cole too, but no Pinefox to appreciate it. I left about two-ish I think, nightbussing it to Traf. Sq. where the bus co. had decided to move the bus stop (just what you need in the small hours), but fortunately only to the nearby, euphonic Pall Mall. Big zeds were needed in order to wake up in time for the footie and thankfully this was achieved. Got to the bully at five to seven to find a big queue. Memebers of the queue of course took all the seats, leaving me & my colleagues to lean on the dj booth at the back. Anyway, you all know the result and so I'll fast forward to Saturday and a festival with "Bury" in it......CHARLBURY! The Charlbury Riverside Festival is free....free to get in and free of Rod Stewart. Emma & I watched Smilex, Ghost Dog, Sextodecimo and the excellent CALIBER. Smilex's singer made a mad rush to the chemical toilets at the back mid-set, but the music was not over-inspiring, wot d'you expect for £0? The one good song featured Olivia from Caliber. Sextodecimo were nu-metal of the shouty-shouty grr-aren't-we-scary, skatekids-in-hoodies-look-on-in-admiration variety. As Emma and I were going to two parties that evening we were unable to stay for south sea company prospectus, but we did discover that my colleague Ian had pitched the BIGGEST TENT EVER in the tiny camp site before we caught our train. Should think so too, seeing as he'd disappeared for about an hour to pitch the thing. Sunday's activities included a reunion (or "gaudy" as they call them in Oxford) at Emma's college, where the oldest alumnus matriculated (Mark's Oxford to English Translation Service: started her degree) in 1922. I looked round but failed to spot anyone quite that ancient. Unexpected fun came in the form of the blurb & badges we were given on arrival. Emma & quite a few of her friends (not all of them female) discovered maiden names they never knew they'd had, and several Ancient & Modern History graduates were quite surprised to receive badges reading simply "Ancient and History"....not what you want pinned to your chest all afternoon really. Anyway, hope those of yer off to Glasto have a grate time, there's a discussion of the merits or otherwise of "foamy mat things" on a message board near you.... Mark. ps Mitt Bästa Liv sounds wonderful! ______________________________________________________________ For up-to-the-minute music news, reviews and specials visit http://www.nme.com Get free e-mail (anyname(a)nme.com) now at http://www.nmemail.com The sender of this e-mail is NOT an employee or associate of NME, nme.com or any other IPC magazine. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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. 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Sinister: haikus revealed // weeks twentythreefour // two thousand and two
by ee fumblings 24 Jun '02

24 Jun '02

Goodbye Isobel, have a nice life! Maybe I'll buy your next album. A salty price, as we say. OK... that's all... poor post, but from the heart. I'll be slaughtering my sleep schedule to stay up until watching it. Alone is nice though it'd be right at home on Wake up to Wogan. Izzy, darling, I've got the raging horn and I just had to phone you. Never in my life did I expect to see six on my way to work. I'll have an empty moment, look!I'm smiling up to my eyes again. I think I'm gaining a little perspective on this band after all. If you forget all of the above, they are not good photographers. When I was little, I used to pronouce it as "thees- ee-a-saurus". But then work attacks the imagination. Work is a scam, you know. I moved to London! All the cool kids are *doing it* these days, you know. ONLY good looking women-I shall keep my eyes peeled for him next time. Off to fill up my er.. gas tank with a metric gallon of er, gas. And while I'm there that world will feel almost complete. (Complete, not perfect). I'd personally been hoping for an orgy. Wrong party, I guess. And I got his chin instead, and headbutted his nose in the process. I remember it so well, sitting here at my desk, as I am now. I was over him. Only hours after I'd written this letter. Study leave came and went.I regretted dumping him. He carried on. I was in fifth year. I got it from all angles. >From the younger year. I do? Decided to ask for a guitar for my 16th birthday. They caled me that. They wrote it on the blackboard in the common room. I must send you a quick note on The Pinefox's visit to Dublin. Last weekend, I went to what must have been the worst show I've ever seen. I'm sure the nice chap was relieved as well owing to my subterfuge. Sorry, but after two and a half decades, the heat's getting to me. // ee // +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: I'll have a vodka and ginger beard please
by Lucy Alder 23 Jun '02

23 Jun '02

Hello Sinister First of all, thank you to everyone who came to the Winchester Club on Friday. Troika were lovely and, dare I say it, actually *better* unplugged than they are when swathed in "belly button fluff" (their words, not mine). Malcolm M was great too, although I had to miss a bit of his set to run about in the pouring rain and try and persuade people to come along after the Ballboy gig. Our success in this was limited, but we did manage to get Keith Watson and friend to return in the car with us. The sleb count was pretty high - four Camera Obscuras, two Belle & Sebastians and at least two Arab Straps (there may have been more but Im not sure what they all look like) as well as Keith and Genevieve. The hottest dance floor fillas were Borderline by Madonna and Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara. Considering we were pitting our little night up against the likes of Pulp, Ballboy, Bill n Bel and Stuart Braithwaite, not to mention Rod Stewart and Ronan Keating, I think we did OK. You should come along next time (yes, even you). Its on 13th July and features Chris Leonard, (formerly?) of this very list and Aerospace, who are just fabulous. Speaking of Aerospace, Im getting all excited about going to see them in Sweden next month. Sweden seems to be the HAPPENING place this summer - Ant and the Clientele are playing in August and Aerospace, Boy Racer, Tender Trap and Sportique are playing at the Mitt Bästa Liv Festival, which is where Ally and I are going. Did you know that in Sweden, instead of saying "Speak of the devil" when you turn up, they say "Speak of the troll?" I love furrin languages. I cant remember exactly what Idleberry said about people having Proper Jobs and not chasing their dreams and stuff like that, but the subject reminded me of Amelia Fletcher, who has the posh title of Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading, as well as making sweet music with Tender Trap (not to mention her glorious past with Heavenly, Marine Research etc.) Why not have your cake *and* eat it, eh? After Sweden, Ally and I will be in London for a weekend and Genevieve says shes thinking of coming down then too. Would somebody orgainise a piquenique for us? Juicy Lucy ===== The one, the only Glasgow Indie List! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glasgow-indie/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: i was wrong, all things considered, and it's taken so long for me to admit it.
by lindsey baker 23 Jun '02

23 Jun '02

hello sinister. the remembrance of a simple piano progession lingers, and i listen for the crickets, now, finally, after days, at an uncertain peace. everything is quiet, and i have spent the tears i kept at bay for so long. talking to my grandma on the phone at one in the morning, i let it all go when she told me to, and wept. really and truly. the kind of tears that make you feel like you're going to vomit them out rather than cry them out, the kind that really mean something. i was hot and panting, and finally, the whole thing had a purpose. i told her how i felt so homeless. and she said i was, but not without reason or timing. and she was right. i suppose once you get to sixty-five you have that kind of certainty, to be right about things. *** i am tired now, but not ready to sleep on the couch of the newspaper, where i have decided to sleep tonight. i looked at the walls around me fifteen minutes or so ago and renounced them; they were never my own, and they will not be now. and so i left, listening to the absolute stillness of the building, knowing that it wasn't absolute. not really. nothing is these days, and i know that, too. walking down the steps outside, i breathed. and the air was cooler, thinner, and for one small perfect moment, i felt small. in a good way. walking down the winding sidewalk to my car i thought about why they call it a sidewalk, why it's a slower lane for the road that takes you somewhere. why people walk there, sometimes run, but never get somewhere fast. and i liked it. i stopped worrying for a moment, and just walked. *** i watched a movie tonight, and for two hours, thought about nothing else but the box in front of me, what was happening there and what would happen. and, periodically checking the clock, i suspected the reason people like movies so much was because you could stop the motion at any one point and replay it. or put it off altogether until another time. or move backwards and do it again. we want everything to be like that, i think, and when we see that everything keeps moving one way ahead whether we want it to or not, we want our money back. but we never paid for this, and that's why today is sunday. and when everything stopped for me as i was moving on the sidewalk, i forgot about what i used to be and what i was now and what i will be, and concentrated, without effort, on that single moment. each step in and of itself, and i was grateful that i could do that. walk. walking. maybe i was given something that would take away so i could have moments like those; when i am crippled, i will remember. but then again, when i am crippled, i will have moments. where i just am. and that is all. walking down a sidewalk, anticipating sleep and a soft piano, but not running toward them. just stepping and moving and realizing why moving pictures are only two-dimensional representations expanded from a footfall into the walking of a thousand miles. i have wondered if the physical pain these past few weeks has been my punishment. the manifestation of all that is eating away at me inside. the non-justification for my inherent idiocy. and then and now and then it just doesn't matter anymore. *** in retrospect, when things begin again, i will wish i could retrace patterns and redraw them when i get back to where i started a few months back. i will wish again that i could take back the declarations and abstractions to simply say that i was lost. and i will not wish to take them back because they were untrue -- the things i said still hold, for me, are true and real and mine. but they are unimportant. i cannot persuade moments to be something they are not. i suddenly realize the keys are wet. tissues. tissues remedy that. xxx lou ------------------ THE FOLLOWING IS AN ADVERT FOR EXCELLENCE: never learned how to ride a bike? merely flailed helplessy in a chlorine-laced pool when trying to learn to swim? come to Camp Kids Who Gave Up 2002, sponsored by lindsey baker, dave snyder and conor oberst to learn to ride and swim like nobody's business! while you're temporarily residing on our beautiful, secluded island paradise camp, enjoy lessons from friendly guest instructors such as mandee wright and listen to a different live band every night (we feature saddle creek gems and omaha rapists)! dating lindsey is also an available option, so long as conor is off-island. SIGN UP TODAY!!! _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Glasgow Tickets: In search of
by Barbara Di Bacco 22 Jun '02

22 Jun '02

Hello Sinister folk, Two friends of mine landed in Glasgow this morning from the harsh tundra of Canada to find B&S were playing on the 27th and that tickets were fresh out. If anyone knows the whereabouts of some extras, pretty please let me know. As a note of interest to those of you not residing in Glasgow or not retaining ticks, has anyone else heard the rumour that Isobel quit the band to join Snow Patrol? That would possibly be the only good reason to quit B&S. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Belle And sebastian, On The Radio
by David Moore 22 Jun '02

22 Jun '02

Playing songs for Londoners, at least. Hi All, xfm's weekend schedule claims that B&S are on "Hijack", wich is on Sunday 23.06.02, 17:00-18:00. Frequency = 104.9. They say "Every week a top act takes over the Xfm studios to play their favourite tracks. " It is possible to listen online, see the Listen Live link at www.xfm.co.uk Quite often their info on the web is bollocks, so it might not happen. Especially as there has been no official announcement from Banchory Towers. Perhaps Neil is too busy setting the record straight in his usual, er, forthright style over on the Bowlie board. I am almost tempted to quote what the great man said over there as he has such a wonderful way with words, but Sir Cliff keeps putting a restraining hand on my typing fingers. I may give in to that temptation soon, though :) Nice to see Big Stu's back again. Actually, no it isn't, because now I can't see a bloody thing. David Chelmsford, UK +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: they also serve, who stand and wait
by Dirty Vicar 22 Jun '02

22 Jun '02

you know, there's been all this talk of dreams. When I was younger my big dream was to become a published author or more particularly a performed playwright. And I will do it one day, I just haven't got round to writing anything yet. Idleberry mentioned people who work in middle management or chartered accountancy, and wondered if they ever dreamed of so doing, and how it's bad to let your dreams of lion-taming end up in a job in accounts payable. I think that's maybe slightly unfair. I mean, you can't define a person's entire life by what they do for a living. Maybe they make a packet of money working in middle management, which they have used to fund their long-running dream of climbing Mount Everest. Or maybe they have realised their dream of starting a family, and in order to provide for them properly they have scaled back on their dream of never washing and juggling for a living. My current dream is to go the Glastonbury music festival, which it looks like I will be achieving next Wednesday. I may see some of you there. bless you all, DV +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: I slept in so it wasn't the longest day, but it's well into the next one and I haven't gone to bed yet
by Gordon 22 Jun '02

22 Jun '02

I saw a real live frog just there! Or maybe it was a toad. I crouched down to get a closer look but the nervous little thing crawled into a gap in the old stone wall. I was walking up a hill, after midnight, in the drizzle. After discussing the weather with the only other pedestrian walking up from the railway station, I took a detour. You know what it's like (? I'll explain): pleasantries are exchanged then you end up walking side by side up a lonely road at night with a complete stranger and the prospect of maintaining a constant flow of small talk for an indefinite period doesn't appeal so you look for ways to break away politely. So I spotted my chance at the next available junction and lied, making out the detour was in fact my route home. Does this make me antisocial? I hope not. I'm sure the nice chap was relieved as well owing to my subterfuge. So I'm wet, but it was lovely in the quiet of the night, heavily scented with dripping vegetation. Anyway, this post is just a quickie 'reporting back' from the Winchester Club. I took the train into Glasgow in time to watch half of Spiderman (yeah: whole superhero- half duration) before heading to Kelvinbridge, and then onto the Woodside Social Club. It only says 'Woodside' on the canopy over the door, not 'Social Club' and a sign for the Boys Brigade next to it, but I ventured in anyway and an elderly gentleman confirmed that I had the right place and directed me, well, right, through double doors to Carey and her lollipops. Ally was there too, and Jamie. Jamie and I ventured further inside, thereto find Michael sitting on a banquette with a bloke (hullo person!) and someone else, who turned out to be the delightful Genevieve, all the way from Quebec, which is quite near New York hehe ; ) DJ Lucy was laying down some fat tunes, and assorted folks twiddled with various knobs and leads, one of whom was Gavin, I believe, of Camera Obscura and Avalanche Records fame. First band up was Troika, who have two guitarists, leading to some inventive harmonies, and a drummer who didn't drum but sang instead. And a good voice he had too. All four members of the band played all together for only one of the numbers, so hopefully there'll be more of the complete outfit another time. However, the trios, duets and solos which followed were pretty excellent too, including a self-penned composition by 'the bearded one'. Us sinistersorta folk are a well behaved bunch at gigs, most of the time (when not being cautioned by the police of course, or getting comatose drunk) and so the auditorium, if we can call it that, was pretty much silent as he sang except, that is, for the telephone ringing behind the bar. This sound effect stood out so much, in fact, that the poor troubadour was forced to append an aside roughly going 'Fuck it! This is supposed to be poignant!' before continuing with some truly beautiful guitar passages and wistful verses. Then the till clattered open... JINGLE JANGLE!!!! Och well. Unfortunately I could only stay for the first piece by the Boy out of The Arab Strap, as I was rushing for the last train home. Boo! I wanted to stay. In fact, the dancing will just be stopping now as I'm typing this, far away, up in the hills where the frogs live. All in all, a really good evening. If it weren't for the fact that there's yet another B&S gig next week I'd be lamenting the fact that I have to wait a whole 3 weeks before another one. That's SATURDAY 13th JULY. The WINCHESTER CLUB. If you look this up in Google you'll get the site of 'the original Butterfly Bar in Soi Wat Boon which is just a 10 minute drive from Central Pattaya' but it's not that. I think it's a reference to the TV series 'Minder' as Arthur Daley is featured on the flyer.Y'all should come along. I'll finish with a gratuitous mention of *Mandingo Cliché* . That's onehelluva sexy voice. Top of my Isobel replacement list, who, by the way, was also performing in Glasgow last night (of which this pre-dawn is the continuation) with Bill Wells. Maybe someone will be nice and post back about that too. Gordon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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