Hello, Sinister.
I'm making another journey to london and edinburgh june 1 - june 9th.
I'll be in edinburgh from the 4-7th... if someone knows of shows that are
going on or other rad things I'd be greatly appreciated. I'm taking my
girlfriend and it's her first trip abroad so it should be fun
we like indie stuff mostly... Mogwai would be super I was lucky to see them
at the liquid room last time I went over...
any advice on what to do see would also be greatly appreciated. I'm at the
point where i think I know waaaay more about those two cities than I do...
jef.
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So I'm dreaming...of a trip to London...my fave place in the world, well at
least so far. That's right kiddos, Melmoz will be crashing your wonderful
town
the week of June 17-21! I can't wait to go, I am going on my own to meet up
with
some friends who live outside of London. I am looking forward to the days
of
sightseeing and whatnot, being that the last time I was there I missed out
on a lot of things. Anyway, if any get-togethers or concerts are going on
please let this ol' Texan Yank know!
Went to see my first B&S show in Austin last week, man was it a wonderful
experience! I never knew that so many people would be there, I guess since
it was the only show in this part of the country that everyone from
neighboring states drove down for it. Me and my pals met up with Alyson from
the list, who was super nice! Vince told her to recognize our group by the
dress I was wearing, and she did! I got some pics taken but have to get my
film developed. The next day we stopped off at Waterloo Records in Austin
for some tunes, man what a great shop that is. They are on the web, you
guys should check them out www.waterloorecords.com, I believe that is the
site. I picked up the new Promise Ring, the new Grandaddy, and Ben Kweller
(all of which rocked, especially Ben Kweller).
While walking into class yesterday, I actually saw a truck with stickers on
the back for the Get Up Kids and for Promise Ring, and some other Emo bands.
I couldn't believe it, an actual fan of good music lives by me. Need to
meet them... ;)
Stacey Dahling, loved the pictures from all your past Sinister parties! You
are right, Ken Chu is a cutie :)! I need to get one of those 'I Love Ken
Chu' badges, was it you Lisa who was making them? Don't you all think it is
totally great that somewhere, maybe on the other side of the globe, someone
is speaking your name and wearing badges that say that they love you?
Breaking out in Linda-Rondstat mode singing 'Somewhere Out There'. The list
is all powerful...
Licky love,
Melmoz
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Just to add to the pile:
At the Belfast gig last December they covered Cool for Cats (Squeeze (Richie
did it, reading/singing the lyrics written on the back page of our local
evening paper)), Here Comes the Sun (Beatles (because Harrison had died very
recently)), and The Boys are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy (because, y'know, they
were in Ireland and *had* to do something local, although everyone was hoping
for a take on the Undertones' Teenage Kicks)).
God I love nested parentheses.
I share an office with two other grad students here, and have just this very
minute been instructed to "turn off that beepy bollocks, Michael." I've been
listening to Hefner's Dead Media LP. And... And you know what it's been
replaced with? David Gray. I'm not kidding. I think that's my cue to nip
outside for a gauloise and pet the feral cats that run around this end of the
campus.
- M.
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Just wanted to let everyone know about the Belle & Sebastian afterparty =
> that we're having!
>
> Friday May 10th
>
> Free You Ass V.1
> Special Guest DJ: Chris Geddes of Belle & Sebastian!!!
>
> This is the Belle & Sebastian afterarty!!!
>
> djs Chris Geddes (B&S)
> and Dave Shettler (the Sights)
> will be spinning funk, soul, 80s hip-hop, and rock 'n' roll to free your
> ass...
> All Night Long!!!!
>
> Starts:11pm
> Ends: when the last person falls
> Admission: $3
>
> Address: Detroit Contemporary
> 5141 Rosa Parks Blvd.
> Detroit, MI 48208
>
> 313.898.4ART
>
> See you there!!!
>
> Any questions please email me at thom(a)mechanicalboy.com
>
> Thom
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Just wanted to let everyone know about the Belle & Sebastian afterparty that
we're having!
Friday May 10th
Free You Ass V.1
Special Guest DJ: Chris Geddes of Belle & Sebastian!!!
This is the Belle & Sebastian afterarty!!!
djs Chris Geddes (B&S)
and Dave Shettler (the Sights)
will be spinning funk, soul, 80s hip-hop, and rock 'n' roll to free your
ass...
All Night Long!!!!
Starts:11pm
Ends: when the last person falls
Admission: $3
Address: Detroit Contemporary
5141 Rosa Parks Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48208
313.898.4ART
See you there!!!
Any questions please email me at: thom(a)mechanicalboy.com
Thom
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B&S covered "Summer Holiday" by the mighty Cliff last
year at their scarborough gig. Honest.
Dean XX
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all day my little etta knew something was up. i was dancing around getting
ready and she knew.
"it's belle & sebastian tonight isn't it?"
"yes," i told her.
"may i come?" she asked.
"sorry my lovely, but it's not the place for little cats like you. it's for
those 19 and older and you're merely two," i responded.
she seemed to be content with this and started to lick something.
well i've just got back from the toronto show, and i had a lot of fun.
i won't add setlists as i don't remember all the details. one thing i'll say
about the toronto audience, is they weren't dancing. the aislers set did a
great set, the singer was a little off, but that might be due to this
audience. a few hundred people just standing, staring and chatting during
their entire performance. i was standing off to the side looking for people
i knew. steven kado walked by me three times yawning looking for friends, i
felt welcome. laura, who did the first b&s night i went to in toronto was
there as well.
i met my friend kelly, her boyfriend is in sully that just opened for the
cranes, and stood away from the evil black light that plagued the whole
venue. khaki flairs look like dirty white pants under those evil things.
after aislers set we found a great place to watch b&s. (note to short
people, don't complain about not being able to see past us tall people when
we leave a lot of space infront of us for you to stand.)
i was very happy seeing b&s, i had a lot of fun. to that person who had that
apparatus that when he spun it around and it spelled out belle & sebastian
in laser lights, you are awesome, and stuart commented on it.
i had loads of fun but as the last song wound down i had to run for the last
train out of toronto. it runs at 12.13am and i ran for it. i made it, and
i'm back here with etta on my lap looking for a concert tshirt to sleep on.
the storytelling shirts are nothing to look at and i already own an
ampersand shirt, so she's sleeping on my jacket instead, looking quite
content.
see you in #sinister land...
the angel blackwell...
the early bird get's the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese... }:>
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The Montreal show totally kicked my ass. And a big word up to Mick Cooke
being one of the highlights and providing much viewing pleasure to everyone
in our section. We couldn't see about half the stage (but still managed to
see quite a bit, due to the sheer amount of people playing), but were fully
entertained by his many talents.
The Aislers Set were very good- I didn't know much about them, but I noticed
that the keyboard player is from The Fairways. Unfortunately, the sound was
not very good during their set...I think something was wrong with the mic
and the overall mix was very quiet. The sound was corrected for B&S, but
it's too bad that The Aislers Set didn't get their volume cranked to 11 as
well.
Here's the setlist, as I wrote it on a scrap of paper. I'm forgetting a lot
of the talking parts, so I'm hoping that the other Montreal go-ers can fill
in the blanks:
Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie
- I was in the bathroom when this started, and let me tell you: everything
they've said about bathroom acoustics is true. I would've stayed in there if
there was a Jumbotron in the sink area. I don't think they started out with
Fuck This Shit since I didn't hear a harmonica among the crowd-screams, but
I was in the can, so I'm not really sure.
Dirty Dream #2 (no talky bits)
Dunno (Magic of a Kind Word?)
I'm Waking Up To Us
I Love My Car
Stevie Song from Storytelling (Consuelo Leaving?)
- complete with suggestive Genie In A Bottle dance moves from said B&S
member. The string section sounded excellent.
Scooby Driver
Stars of Track and Field
- this one received one of the biggest cheers of the night. Stuart hesitated
at the beginning, which prompted a short conference with Stevie. I think
this was when a girl in the audience shouted "I can sing it!". Ten seconds
later: "I mean it!". Heehee...
The Model
Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
- !!!, with Sarah on vocals; Stevie, Mick, Bobby and Chris
I Could Be Dreaming
The Boy w/ the Arab Strap
- included a Mick-led clapping frenzy. I ran out of clapping-steam about
half way, but the rest of the crowd showed endurance and strength right to
the finish line.
Slow Graffiti
Family Tree
I Know Where the Summer Goes
Dog On Wheels
The Wrong Girl
There's Too Much Love
Put the Book Back on the Shelf
Legal Man
- all sorts of good crazy shit. Great closer, since we did not get an
encore.
Stories included an announcement of the Canadiens win over the Hurricanes
(no comment as I'm from Ottawa), hockey fights, rats following Stuart
around, and a questioning of whether they were considered prog due to
Stuart's double bass/guitar combo. Sadly, no Yes covers were played,
although the Leonard Cohen tune almost made up for it. The band seemed to be
in a good mood: lots of crowd interaction, dancing, smiles, glasses slipping
down noses. It was pretty wild.
For those of you catching them on the rest of the tour: I hate you all!
Have fun,
--Cathy.
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I truly apologize to bother everyone with this, but I have to make a special
request to anyone who can help me. My sister (her name is Cat) lives in
Chicago and she has been unemployed until recently. She couldn't afford to
buy a ticket to the gig at the Congress Theater (and I didn't think of
buying her one until after it sold out). Now she finally got a job, and I
want to give her a sort of "congratulations, you've done it" gift and she
REALLY wants to go to the performance this Saturday. Can anyone with an
extra ticket to the gig please e-mail me privately at JNovotny(a)hotmail.com?
We can set something up. Again, I sincerely apologize for bothering all of
you with this, but I'm fortunate enough to get to see the band here in DC
and I would love my sister to be able to go, too. Thanks so much for your
patience.
Joe in Washington, DC
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Lately I remembered a night, sometime around the time I was fifteenÂ… lying
in bed at night and listening to the radio in the silence and the darkness.
I heard two girls, that couldnÂ’t have been much older than I am now, but
then seemed to somehow belong to another world, read out something likeÂ…
“Self-alienated, a man doesn’t even communicate with himself. Deep inside
him lives a scared child that he hides well, especially from other men. If
however a woman discovers it then he has another mother and heÂ’s definitely
lost. The second castrates what the first one has left. Only when men sing
and drink together are they (temporarily) free.”
(Of course, I didnÂ’t remember that by heart for six years. The girl was
reading it off a magazine that was reviewing the book it was written in, and
the next day –back at those days, I was patient enough to stay in bed and
wait for the next day - I found the magazine in our living room, cut the
pages out, glued them together and kept them. It surprises me that six years
and five times of moving later I knew exactly where they were. If I have
killed it in the process of translating it, forgive me. It was weird in the
first place anyway.)
Yesterday, or the day before – at three am, it’s not today but it’s not
tomorrow either- I went back to the flat I used to live. ItÂ’s strange how
much I know and remember that place, how the way the walls are painted and
the view from the back windows and everything is familiar – so familiar I
can still walk in it in the dark. It is also strange how much the boy that
lives there is familiar, everything down to the way he messes up his room
and the way he piles up things. And itÂ’s strange how even the things he
never did when I used to live in the next room are familiar too, how he
looks more and more like he always looked in my dreams.
We sang along to Hefner together in the half-light, ‘let me put it to you
this way, you will get hit by a bus, you will fall from your bicycleÂ’, and
for a while, it felt as, as will put it, it could alter the structure of
reality itself. He asked me if the song said that youÂ’ll get hit by a track
if you do bad things, and I fell over giggling and couldnÂ’t stop for a
while, it made him turn the volume up and look the other way. Apart from
giggling, I felt like crying too, I was moved to tears by the fact that
someone can say that. And by the fact that someone can be a part of you and
at the same time keep surprising you.
He asked me to imagine how the room would looked if you were standing at the
window opposite, he said it would look like a movie, and I didnÂ’t know what
to say first: youÂ’ve always looked like a movie, or do you think I havenÂ’t
imagined that already? I used to live here remember? But it was innocence,
not carelessness or something like that, and it made me make lists of the
reasons I like boys. In my head, of course, and with a clarity and accuracy
that for my dazzled mind was surprising.
Their smell – and they’re being different – being made in a different way –
and the wonder of two differently made creatures coming near –
I suppose thatÂ’s how far it went.
I said I think the song is about how all the things you could have done but
didnÂ’t do will mean nothing when youÂ’re dead, which could be anytime, so do
something pretty while you can. I just like it for the way it says it.
I had woken up that day with an urge to play It Could Have Been A Brilliant
Career in the silent house, in a theatrical way. To make a mixtape starting
with it. To tell the world something, anyway, starting with it. Which would
be strange, if not inexplicable, had it not been for the feeling of loss
thatÂ’s been haunting me the last few days. Loss of what, you might ask. IÂ’ll
probably say I donÂ’t know. I might be lying about it.
Cause all that was only for a while, and then he had to go and do different
things with different people, and me, I donÂ’t know what I had to do.
I remembered that night, though. I remembered the silence and the darkness
that made me more open to all feelings. And what the girl read out loud. In
a way, I didn’t understand it; and in another way, I understood everything –
or at least the feelings behind everything, which, for me, is everything.
And it was weird. How it broke my fifteen-year-old heart – at the time I had
no expectations from any boy whatsoever, so I was free to feel the sadness
of it. And how IÂ’ve lived the rest of my life with a vague knowledge of it.
Whatever it actually is IÂ’m talking about.
Why is falling love so difficult? And why does it scare people when they
want to fall in love anyway? And why do people run away from things? And why
do people do things that don't really make them happy? And why is letting go
of your fears so hard?
Oh, please, do something pretty while you can,
Dimitra
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