Hello
goodness me, doesn't anyone (I don't) have the technological know-how to set up a site where people can go to exchange, beg, borrow, steal, extort, and moan about tickets for these shows? It would save a lot of bother, wouldn't it?
It all raises some interesting issues, though. I mean, are you a *real* fan if you failed to get a ticket for the concert? Shouldn't you have been hovering over your keyboard/telephone at Noon on that fateful day, cussing like a whore about Ticketmaster's total inability to cope? I consider myself a Huge Fan of TLC, but I tried to get a ticket to Lisa's funeral the other day and the fuckers had all gone already. Bummer.
Anyway, next year Belle and Sebastian will play Madison Square Garden and we can *all* get tickets, and then whinge about how they're so far away, and that they're inaudible past the second row. Again.
You know there was that awful rumpus a few days ago about Top Ten Lists of Favourite Albums? I've been trying to think of any albums that I own which are actually *perfect*. My definition of that being that they start with an absolute drop-dead classic song and then every single track on the album after that maintains the same standard. Not even a miniscule deviation from genius is allowed. So, no B&S albums make it. No Smiths albums make it. And 'Greatest Hits' aren't allowed. Otherwise the imaginary Lighthouse Family CD in my head would definitely qualify. And the weird thing is that the only 2 albums I can think of which are *perfect* are not my favourite albums by any stretch of the imagination. What does this mean? Is perfection indeed boring, as Claudia Schiffer once whispered to me in a moment of self-doubt? Does an album need a couple of rotters to make the stand-out songs, er, stand out? 'Me and the Major' plays that role to perfection, I think. It would be interesti!
ng to know what people think about this. And Please Please Please don't send lists of your 'perfect' albums to Sinister. It's just something to talk about other than tickets, I hope.
Take care,
David
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i am having one heck of a time sending messages to the list-
what words or phrases are blocked?
anyway, is anyone going to philly and want to rideshare? or maybe even rent
a car? share toll / gas/ driving?
email me as_fein(a)hotmail.com
also anyone who wants to go sunday night and can't go monday? my friend todd
is looking to swap - email him todd_snyder(a)hotmail.com
cheers!
also isobel should be joining up with them in philly onwards.
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hi all
caught b+s at coachella last weekend - excellent. the band seemed in good
spirits - stuart seemed especially pleased at playing outdoors at the magic
hour
he said "this is the first time we've played outdoors, and i'm wondering why
the f*ck we haven't before!"
he also explained that isobel would be joining up with the band philly
onwards
anyway, anyone driving down to the philly show tomorrow night?
i'm in manhattan and very keen to rent a car or hope a ride with someone-
will share driving, tolls, gas, etc.
or is anyone taking the train? i really want to go!
(i also need a ticket if someone is selling)
email me privately as_fein(a)hotmail.com
also my friend todd is desparate to get his girlfriend in to the monday
night show in NYC -he bought a sunday night ticket on accident - so he can
even trade. todd_snyder(a)hotmail.com is his email
sorry about all the ticket-transaction-type content!
cheers
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hi all
caught b+s at coachella last weekend - excellent. the band seemed in good
spirits - stuart seemed especially pleased at playing outdoors at the magic
hour
he said "this is the first time we've played outdoors, and i'm wondering why
the f*ck we haven't before!"
he also explained that isobel would be joining up with the band philly
onwards
anyway, anyone driving down to the philly show tomorrow night?
i'm in manhattan and very keen to rent a car or hope a ride with someone-
will share driving, tolls, gas, etc.
or is anyone taking the train? i really want to go!
(i also need a ticket if someone is selling)
email me privately as_fein(a)hotmail.com
also my friend todd is desparate to get his girlfriend in to the monday
night show in NYC -he bought a sunday night ticket on accident - so he can
even trade. todd_snyder(a)hotmail.com is his email
sorry about all the ticket-transaction-type content!
cheers
kimie
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caught B+S at coachella last weekend- so good
and the band seemed especially pleased to be playing outdoors during the
magic hour.
stuart said "this is the first time we've played outdoors, and i'm
wondering, why the fuck haven't we done it before?"
he also explained that isobel would be joining the band in Philadelphia -
onwards.
BTW is anyone going to the philly show? and driving down there?
I'm in NYC and really want to go- maybe rent a car or something?
let me know if anyone is intested in going after work tomorrow. email me
privately - as_fein(a)hotmail.com
also if anyone is trying to unload their B+S ticket for monday night, my
friend todd is desparate to get his girlfriend into the show- he bought a
ticket for sunday but needs monday- so he could even do a trade if someone
is in a similar situation
todd_snyder(a)hotmail.com is his email.
sorry for all the ticket-transaction type content!
cheers
kimie
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caught B+S at coachella last weekend- so good
and the band seemed especially pleased to be playing outdoors during the
magic hour.
stuart said "this is the first time we've played outdoors, and i'm
wondering, why the fuck haven't we done it before?"
he also explained that isobel would be joining the band in Philadelphia -
onwards.
BTW is anyone going to the philly show? and driving down there?
I'm in NYC and really want to go- maybe rent a car or something?
let me know if anyone is intested in going after work tomorrow. email me
privately - as_fein(a)hotmail.com
also if anyone is trying to unload their B+S ticket for monday night, my
friend todd is desparate to get his girlfriend into the show- he bought a
ticket for sunday but needs monday- so he could even do a trade if someone
is in a similar situation
todd_snyder(a)hotmail.com is his email.
sorry for all the ticket-transaction type content!
cheers
kimie
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not for nothing, but i am one of the one's who bought an extra ticket for a
friend only to have that friend back out. well guess what? too bad! i
overmaxed my credit card and am now paying out the ass for these tickets. but
its worth it. im not not going to buy tickets just because im not sure who im
going with three months in advance. im not trying to be bitchy either. its
just you know, reasonable i think to buy a ticket to go with someone else
even if you dont know quite who.
well, thats enough on this topic. its quite boring wouldnt you agree?
colleen
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hello sinister.
not to be bitchy about it, but i wonder this, too, being one of the refused.
l.lou
>From: Sillylorna(a)aol.com
>Reply-To: Sillylorna(a)aol.com
>To: sinister(a)missprint.org
>Subject: Sinister: TICKETS!
>Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 03:39:33 -0400
>
>Hi everyone.
>
>I cant help but notice an overwhelming amount of people who have ordered
>extra tickets and now have them spare, therefore causing the tickets to
>sell out quickly leaving others who want tickets shafted.
>
>You'll probably say it's because you have friends who would want to go but
>let you down. well if that's the case let them purchase them themselves.
>
>Last year before I joined any mailing lists I tried to order tickets to a
>b&s show and was refused cause they had sold out. I wonder how many of you
>had tickets lying in wallets going un used...
>
>Bye bye.
>Lorna
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A long long time ago -- about six months, to be precise -- the lovely
Amy Longcore sent a questionnaire to Sinister. She promised to compile
all the replies she received and put them up on a web page somewhere.
However, it didn't quite go to plan, and all the answers were sadly
destroyed in a bizarre accident involving a combine harvester and a
bucket of prunes.
Because Amy is such a lovely person -- even if she does phone people up
when they're not expecting it -- I promised her that I'd redo the whole
thing myself. So, I have. It is -- like Amy's original -- "a sort of
fun, get-to-know-ya silly thing". I'll compile all the answers and
either email them out or put them all up on the web somewhere
(whatever's easiest). Please, please, if you want to join in, send
your answers directly to me and *don't* post them to the list. The
questions (which aren't exactly the same ones that Amy posted) are at
the end of this post.
I seem to be having a lot of strange dreams lately. Not exactly *bad*
dreams, just vivid. Maybe I shouldn't try and sleep and listen to
Radio 4 at the same time. Only last night, I was trying to escape from
an archaeology field trip when I ran into two Roman men who had
accidentally discovered some kind of magic spell which causes time
travel. After lots of chasing round and running through London
Underground tunnels (which was a bit odd, because the dream started off
in East Lothian, and I didn't know the Central line went that far out)
I managed to catch up with them -- along with a lot of other people --
and we were all chanting the spell to take us back to the 1st century
when I woke up. All morning, I kept thinking: but how would I have
coped in Roman times? I don't speak Latin. And how come they learned
English so quickly when they got here? The night before I was at a
town planning conference in a big hotel, which turned into a bit of a
nightmare when I found that me and my friends were all trapped!
trapped! and the conference attendees were going to use as as
guinea-pigs for some bizarre time-dilation experiments. I'm not sure
why there's a time-travel pattern here. That dream never really
reached a decent conclusion, although I did discover a way to make my
mobile phone alter the structure of reality itself. Which was nice.
I've started getting SMS spam, incidentally. It makes me want to
shout. One ... two ... three ... YOU BASTARDS!
The Austin gig sounds like it was fun, although I wouldn't fancy an
outdoor gig in Scotland. They don't do encores very often, but they do
sometimes. I could be wrong, but I think the first gig at which they
did do one was the second Glasgow gig last summer. The feeling in the
audience at the time was "if you don't do an encore, we're not going
home". Incidentally, I was intrigued by Paisley going off to make
fireworks with a nice young man. We all want to know: how cute is he?
Incidentally: am I using the word 'incidentally' too much?
I've decided to make a CD for a friend of mine's wedding. On the
invite, she asked everyone to suggest a song to be played at the
reception. I couldn't think of one specific song I wanted played, and
I didn't want to cart any of my own CDs over to Paris for the event, so
I decided to make her a CD and send it before the wedding, so she can
pick a song or two she likes off it. I'm trying to make sure that she
has never heard of any of the bands on it, but as she's a classical
music fan that shouldn't be too hard. Lots of B&S, obviously. I'm
having a bit of trouble finding nice upbeat
good-danceable-to-for-a-wedding-reception songs for it, though.
And *then*, I'm going to write a nice little inlay booklet about how
pop music saved the world from alien invasion, so sheep could graze
peacefully (and disco-dance) once more. She'll like that.
Anyway. The questionnaire.
1. What's your name and where do you come from?
2. What name(s) do you use on Sinister/#sinister?
3. How long have you been on Sinister?
4. How old are you?
5. Describe your first snog. Oh, go on.
6. What was the first novel you read that really made you all excited
about life and stuff?
7. What's your favourite board or card game?
8. Vowel or Consonant?
9. First movie that made you cry. I know you have, just admit it.
10. First B&S song you heard that made you realise you'd never go back?
11. Best concert/show/gig/whatever?
12. How far would you have to stretch your arms to show just how much
you adore Princess Honey?
13. What artists do you admire? Which do we deserve to know more about?
14. Got any siblings?
15. Ever genuinely had an internet crush?
16. Ever had a crush on someone you shouldn't have?
17. On someone a lot lot older or younger than you?
18. Ever been embarrassed by something you've posted on Sinister?
19. ... or something someone else has posted on Sinister?
20. Worst 70s song? 80s song? 90s song?
21. Worst 80s snog? 90s snog?
22. Most overrated band?
23. Got any pets?
24. Who from Sinister would you most like to meet (but haven't)?
25. Which B&S song gets in your head the most? Which other song?
26. Ever been in a car crash?
27. Who did you blame for it?
28. Worst job you've ever had?
29. Ever been in unrequited love?
30. Write a poem! now! Yes, here!
And finally: have you ever done it? (NB: this was what Amy said.
obviously, *I* don't know how you should interpret it ;-) Maybe this
one should be an essay question.)
love
xx
caitlin
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a picnic perhaps?
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