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Sinister: Friction (abrase)
by Kenneth P Y Chu 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

..Thank God for the coming of a new album! Just as my supply of B&S song titles was punning out. Wow, UBSCARSCAB sounds like it's going to be great! I haven't been this excited about the arrival of an album since that album by Silverchair 4 years ago. And I looked at the tracklisting and LO AND BEHOLD B&S ARE COVERING "FREAK" BY SILVERCHAIR!!!!!!! look.. Fiction ----> Freak Early Letterman Fuck this Shit Fiction (Night Walk) Jersey's Where America's At Black and White Unite Consuelo I Need to See This With an Audience Storytelling Jingle/Class Rank I Don't Want to Play Football I Don't Want to Play Football (Latin) Wandering Alone Mandingo Cliche Scooby Driver Fiction (Reprise) Big John Shaft .. I think the band are taking on a new RAWK direction: <sturan> sod this wimsy indie crap dudes, we're going NU Metal! <stevie> cool! I can do me guitar solos. <mick> what are we gonna call our songs? *isobel sulks <isobel> NU metal sucks boabs guys! Fuck this shit. <sturan> YES! FUCK THIS SHIT! That's it! stevie let's rock. *stevie air guitars *isobel sulks So there you have it! I can't wait to hear the songs, "fuck this shit" sounds like it would have Rage Against The Machine influences in it... fuck this shit i won't do what you tell me, fuck this shit i won't do what you tell me, fuck this shit i won't do what you tell me, FUCK THIS SHIT I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! ARRRGH MOTHERFUCKERS! MOTHER.. FUCKERS! Cor! And look.. 18 tracks! Value for money! Right okay I'm off to practice cutting myself in preparation of the new album. Moshpits and Red Bulls Ken \m/ P.S.: I wonder if the band will reveal the clues for the treasure hunts once the Manchester clues have been found... _________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: Sinister: "storytelling" album info ...
by robin stout 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

hey! this is really exciting! isn't it? everybody: YES! HOORAY! For those of you reading this on the revolutionary Amstrad email telephone, here's what's on the website... ====================================================================== Belle & Sebastian's new record "Storytelling" is to be released in the UK and Europe on June 3rd, and the USA on June 4th. As previously reported, the record is made up of songs written for the film of the same name. The track listing goes a little something like this: Fiction Freak Early Letterman Fuck this Shit Fiction (Night Walk) Jersey's Where America's At Black and White Unite Consuelo I Need to See This With an Audience Storytelling Jingle/Class Rank I Don't Want to Play Football I Don't Want to Play Football (Latin) Wandering Alone Mandingo Cliche Scooby Driver Fiction (Reprise) Big John Shaft ===================================================================== I like the sound of a Latin version of I Don't Want to Play Football and it's good to see that Big John Shaft makes an appearance too. The last time I saw HIM he was climbing down my drainpipe with feathers in his hair. I also like the sound of Fuck This Shit, an allusion to Chaucer no doubt. Thanks to everyone who emailed about that letter. I've taken out the bit about being hit by a teacher (although it was my favourite bit) because people seemed to think i might get arrested. Everyone should have a look at Miss Patrick Doyle's website. It's funny! Has anyone else noticed how, after our little telling off for sending long emails about nothing (or short emails about long emails about nothing) those emails seem to have doubled? Maybe Auntie Linda should use a little reverse psychology, like my mum does. Mum: "You can eat as much chocolate as you like!" Me: "Don't like chocolate anyway! I'm going to tidy my room!" Aaargh! Fooled again! R(obin) _________________________________________________________________ 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: i'd rather be fat than be confused
by Bron 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

beautiful ones, lately my pancake-making has gone downhill...by some bizarre method i've been able to make them both rubbery and crispy at the same time. what's a girl to do? it snowed yesterday, but a few days before that it rained. it rained so tenderly that the moss on the few tree trunks scattered about this campus turned all shades of lime and turquois. is it a sin to lust after nature? if it is i'm going straight to hell. i just burped on accident and cracked myself up. marikka mentioned TIJAMRS. does listening to that song make anyone else want to sprint across an open field into the arms of a lover? after my spring break i brought back my old trumpet and some books on zen. we'll see if they collect dust again. last night i went to my first american bar (having just recently turned 21) and i can't say i was too impressed. china bars' atmospheres are way more chill in my opinion. i felt like being a female and being thin made me like one of those "dummies in the window" for sloppy men who reeked of old cigarettes to stare at. speaking of being confused. yes. and no. i don't know. perhaps if i gained some weight i'd be less confused about my life and it's direction and why i'm even in college and why i even care about anything. and truly i don't think my family tree goes back to the romans. oh crazy shit here: i mentioned TIJAMRS. my best friend from high school was named emma. my best friend in college is named laura. you do the math. much love and peace and stars ---your mountain mama sweetheart X ***Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right*** ---Jerry. http://www.care2.com - Get your Free e-mail account that helps save Wildlife! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: "storytelling" album info ...
by Katrina House 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

at http://www.banchory.net/belleandsebastian/news.html cheers, katrina. banchory press - management - merchandising po box 25074 glasgow g2 6ld scotland email: shop(a)banchory.net http://www.banchory.net http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/home +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: normandy in june
by marikka 22 Mar '02

22 Mar '02

it seems to be that i last wrote in august. i feel awful, almost as awful as when i forgot to write to my friend in mongolia to tell her that i had in fact graduated, visited europe, and found myself a job and a new home. well, the new job and new home are no longer new. i am posing as a workaholic (very strange word as it probably should be workic, which doesn't sound nearly as catchy), hiding from one potential suitor, and battling a mild not-so real crush on a kid at work. he garners the title of "the kid" simply because he is eight months younger and graduated from high school and college a year after me. and the potential suitor is ghastly, but i think he has finally realized that i do not want to talk to him. i don't know if i could ever really be attracted to someone who said, "i grew out of my belle and sebastian phase years ago." i am much more comfortable with people who have never experienced the band and even those who simply do not like them. but someone who has grown beyond them? why would he even want to spend time with someone who cannot escape their grip? i drive to work and then my failing tape deck will work and allow me to hear the voices of stuart and stevie. i love stevie. i've loved stevie since i first heard TIJAMRS: "stevie's full of good intentions." don't know why exactly, but preference can rarely be adequately described. and then, why doesn't the kid leave his girlfriend in santa barbara? of course, that would be weird. i am in some weird technical way his supervisor, which seems wrong. i might nearly be twenty-four, but i am not old enough for them to trust me with that much responsibility, not really. not when i want to live in southwestern france for a few months before i am thirty. but is it fair to call a mild attraction a crush? i have been debating this. am i attracted to him or to his qualities? does that qualify as a crush? it doesn't feel like other crushes, which worries me for a number of reasons. and is it possible to separate a person's qualities from the person? my situation is not helped by my friend, who is aware of the situation, will say on many occasions "i really like him," as if she is actually approving of my choice. if she only knew about the ones in the past, i even shake my head in dismay at those choices. i feel like a recovering addict. i feel like i left one long-term relationship and replaced it with another, and then got rid of the last one. i recently beat an obsession with belle and sebastian. i hit a point where of my ten cds at work, five of them bore the name belle and sebastian. during this point, i was seriously considering travelling to austin, texas just to see the band again, but then the kid i have the sort-of crush on convinced me that i should go to france. of course, he isn't going with me, he leaves this weekend and i leave in may. so, belle and sebastian was replaced with elliott smith. if i had more cds, i would probably go to low next, as if any of this is healthy for a girl who is sleep-deprived, trying to learn german in one class per week, and who has to go out in the rain tomorrow and saturday to drag this weird little box over the ground to see if there are any tanks in the ground. i would apologize for content issues, but i've been away, dealing with life, work, and trying to read books fast enough so that i don't get any library fines. one important question...what is the coachella festival like? second question...is it worth going to, or am i going to end up hating the people around me for not understanding why i love the band? marikka. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.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: Yipee, out of the Nursery at last
by Robyn Hesser 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

Hello Everyone! I am new at this, having just been released from the nursery. I am also relativly new to B&S, having just discovered them a few months ago. I am wondering if any of you are from Colorado, particularly the northern area namely Fort Collins. I live there (yeah) and am studying Art. Anyway, that's a bit about me. Sorry, it's not very interesting yet. I'll work on it. Cheers! Bynnic +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: list abuse....but good abuse, none the less!
by patrick doyle 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

Hello sinesterians, me and Jenna have just finished our website and just thought you might like to have a look around. The site includes photos from Belle and Sebastian's QMU gig in Glasgow from December 2001, so....what are you waiting for? GO LOOK AROUND, at the marvellous spectacle that is: www.geocities.com/municipalpool Cheers Patrick Doyle _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.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: Dirty Dreams #2 in Copenhagen
by Guðmundur Jóhannsson 21 Mar '02

21 Mar '02

Hello all! Came home on monday after going to Copenhagen for my first B&S gig ever! I am lost for words.. i dont know if the gig was a bad b&s.. and I dont really care as I had the best time of my life, simply outstanding!! No need to say more! just wanted to share with you this fact! Best! GJ, iceland +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: And all I KEN do is hand it to CHU and his latest trick
by heather homemaker 20 Mar '02

20 Mar '02

Now then. Mr. Brito suggested that he might own a small business and name it BS, which, of course would be rather lovely and all. However, if he were to do any international businness, say with the English speaking part of the international business world, he might get some interesting comments. As most of us native speakers know, of course, BS is short for bullshit. And that's hardly a suitable name for a company. But then again, given the premise of purpose of starting the business (i.e. saving money), maybe it is correct! Another note Mr. Brito brought up is the way in which our beloved group like to sing songs for the region that they are in. I know that when they played in Portland last year, as Im sure many of you remember, Stevie played a lovely little song that he wrote just about the city. It was quite nice and made us feel rather special. I even have a copy of it. Sadly, it is on a mini-cassette tape and I have no way of putting it in any other format. Does anyone in the western mass/general new england region have a way of transferring mini-cassette to a more suitable for listening format? Finally, all of the talk about the upcoming shows here on the east coast are making me all queasy. I mean, at first, when I heard Boston was sold out, I just told myself that it was okay, because I've already seen the band once and I mustn't be greedy. But now I am feeling greedy. I realize that several requests have come up recently, but I'll put in mine as well. Does anyone know about tickets available for any of the shows out here (pref. Boston)? I didn't think so. Thanks anyway. heather _________________________________________________________________ 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: Stuart Murdoch interview
by idleberry 20 Mar '02

20 Mar '02

Belle and Sebastian: Scots of the arch antics Forget Travis: Belle and Sebastian are your real sensitive indie band - they just aren't quite as famous. As Stuart Murdoch tells Fiona Sturges, it wasn't all about the limelight 30 November 2001 When Belle and Sebastian released their first album, Tigermilk, in 1996, Travis were still trawling London's toilet venues, Coldplay were at university and Starsailor didn't exist. Since then, sad, sensitive bands have become hard to avoid. Yet Belle and Sebastian, who are probably the saddest and most sensitive of them all, have yet to reach the dizzying commercial heights of their peers. I meet Stuart Murdoch, the band's singer and chief songwriter, fresh off the plane from Japan, where they've been on tour. When I say "fresh", I mean just that. Tidily dressed in a black polo neck, he looks unfeasibly alert. He's full of stories from Japan � about how he stood in the street during an earth tremor, watching people go about their business as if nothing was happening, and how, with true Japanese hospitality, the band were treated like kings. He's a serious-minded and circumspect individual � he doesn't laugh much � but he's still good company. When I ask if he feels Belle and Sebastian have anything in common with Travis and Coldplay, he replies: "Well, we all have a crack at a tune." He pauses for a while, then continues: "I feel very lucky; I'm quite happy with my group. In fact right at this minute I've never been happier and I think we'll give them all a run for their money now. We'll give anybody a run for their money with the way we're playing." You have to admire his optimism. The fact is that Belle and Sebastian have always been better, avoiding the empty emoting and formal rock structures of Travis in favour of a more subtle and pastoral sound. Songs such as "Fox in the Snow" and "The Boy with the Arab Strap" set flutes and shimmering strings alongside Murdoch's fragile vocals and splashes of acoustic guitar. The band, who come from Glasgow, have eight members, none of whom is called Belle or Sebastian. When they go on tour, the numbers can reach 13 with the extra fiddlers and flautists. Murdoch is brimming with confidence about their live performances: "Playing live's been a bit of a pain in the past. I know we've sounded awful. But we're very organised now. We're learning all the time, but it's going like a dream." Still, it seems the recording process hasn't become any easier. Murdoch says he came "close to a nervous breakdown" last year while trying to finish their fourth album, Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant. The recording of their latest single, "I'm Waking up to Us" � a fabulously embittered song about a dissolving relationship � didn't exactly go off without a hitch either. They hired Mike Hurst, whose previous credits include Petula Clark and Cat Stevens, as producer. "He's a great guy but he didn't deliver the finished product," Murdoch explains. "We had to work very hard afterwards to polish it up. We really need a catalyst, someone who can harness the creative chaos of the group. I suppose we're dreaming of a George Martin figure, but it's not going to happen." If Belle and Sebastian were ever to reach the levels of fame that Travis have achieved, you wonder whether they would cope. In their early days, the band were pathologically publicity-shy. For a long time they wouldn't have their photographs taken, going so far as to stick pictures of their friends on their albums' sleeves, instead of their own. Murdoch avoided giving interviews, leaving the talking to other members of the band. "We didn't quite push away the limelight, as that suggests we weren't looking for it in the first place," he states. "But we weren't interested in that side of things either. There were other things to be getting on with. The band was developing, and for a lot of the time we were in a real mess." Does he feel like an outsider? "Yes � but then it's very easy to be on the outside where British music is concerned. If you're just yourself and you don't bow to the demands of the press and the music industry, then you're bound to be seen as an outsider." They're certainly a hard-working lot. They've made four albums in five years, as well as a handful of EPs, and there are any number of Belle and Sebastian side-projects � the Gentle Waves, Snow Patrol and V-Twin, to name just a few. The band were also the brains behind the Bowlie Weekender, the springtime festival held at Pontin's Holiday Camp in Camber Sands, which later spawned All Tomorrow's Parties. More recently, there's their somewhat controversial contribution to Todd Solondz's latest film, Storytelling. At the mention of Solondz, Murdoch becomes visibly irritated. "To tell you the truth, it almost isn't worth it, what we did. We had lots of ideas, and Todd used very little at the end. I know he was having a really hard time finishing the film, but it was very disappointing for us. I'd really think hard about getting involved in something like that again." Murdoch's musical aspirations arrived late in life. Whereas most musicians spend their adolescence listening to John Peel in their bedrooms, Murdoch preferred being outdoors and, for a while, harboured dreams of being a runner. In the end, he says, he just wasn't good enough. After school, he tried a variety of jobs: as a caretaker, a farm-hand and � this one's hard to imagine � a barman at Butlins. He didn't even start writing songs until he was 23. Murdoch and Stuart David, the band's bass-player, met on a youth opportunity scheme. "It was something the Tories cooked up to get you off the unemployed list," recalls Murdoch. "We were learning to be musical engineers or something like that." The pair then moved on to do a media business course at Glasgow's Stow college, set up by the part-time producer Alan Rankine. Every year he helped a group of students to make a record, usually a single, and put it out on the college label, Electric Honey. On recognising Murdoch and David's talent, he made an exception and allowed them to make a whole album. "We had to do it quickly," Murdoch remembers. "In three months we had to get a full band together and make a proper record. We ended up recording it in just a few days. Obviously, we had luck on our side." That record was Tigermilk. A thousand copies were released at the time � original copies now change hands for up to �400 � though, two years ago, because of popular demand, the record was re-released. It was with "3.. 6.. 9.. Seconds of Light", the third in a trio of EPs released in 1997, that Belle and Sebastian finally troubled the charts, albeit at No 31. Greater success came with their 1998 album The Boy with the Arab Strap, which reached No 12. Just last year they played on Top of the Pops and performed a show at the Albert Hall. Those are landmark events in the lives of most bands, although Murdoch, as usual, is underwhelmed. Then, of course, there was the notorious Brit award. Belle and Sebastian bagged the best newcomer prize in 1998, to the outrage of the other nominees. Rumour has it that Pete Waterman, the man behind Steps, called for a re-count. "I didn't pay much attention," says Murdoch. "I certainly didn't know what a big deal it was until after we had got it. But I remember, we were recording in the studio the day after. All these television crews were coming in and out � the BBC, ITV, the lot. After we'd finished in the studio we bought a newspaper. Suddenly we were front-page news in the tabloids � one of them said "Scots Band Cheat At Brits" or something like that. At first we were really angry but later we saw the funny side." Then he adds, with a sly smile: "Let's face it, it's probably the first and last time we'll ever be on the front page of a newspaper." 'I'm Waking up to Us' is out now on Jeepster. Belle and Sebastian appear tonight on 'Later... with Jools Holland' at 11.35pm (BBC 2). The band play Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow University, on 20 December and Mandela Hall, Belfast, on 21 December http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/interviews/story.jsp?story=107508 ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke and the world did get covered in a thick haze of corduroy smoke. And it felt good. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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