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Sinister: blah blah blah
by Matthew Henderson 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

hi everyone, well, it's been an interesting week. London was more fun than i remembered, and the small scottish towns were an absolute blast. i'm still recovering from last night though. the nicotine is killing me i think. I am currently in an internet cafe on st. vincent street in glasgow. it's quite nice. i'm not sure what to do with myself over the next few days, but i'll find something. any suggestions? well, i'm sure i'll see some of you at the gig in a few nights, so see ya! -matt p.s. this post reeks of worthlessness and list abuse. how awful of me. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: She's Bowling It - Part 2 (LONDON BOWLING PEOPLE PLEASE READ)
by Kenneth P Y Chu 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

Haha at the risk of looking as if I'm trying to organise a Chicago Sinister Picnic, here's another e-mail about SINISTER BOWLING DAY - LONDON BRANCH. CHANGE OF VENUE? Okay, I know I said Finsbury Park, but a couple of people made a couple of good points: 1) You have to pay a quid to get into the Finsbury Park Bowling Place. 2) There is a bowling alley in Canada Water with a DDR machine! Would anyone object to moving the venue from Finsbury Park to Canada Water - seriously the bowling alley is a lot nicer there, and I know that it can be quite far to a few people but it's only a tube ride away. So what do people think - can everyone who is thinking of going e-mail me now, stating your preferred venue (Finsbury Park or Canada Water or not bothered) so 1) I have a vague idea of how many people are going. 2) I know which place to book for. Thank you for reading, if you are not interested, I'm sorry. If you are interested, can you e-mail me now please. :) NOW! Your rubbish Bowling auntie Ken P.S.: on a different note - I have had 3 hours of sleep last night, and someone at work brought in some reaaaally dreary Christmas music, and now I don't know if I'm dreaming, or just having a bad dream. _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Glasgow meet-up?
by Michael Grant 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

>Love and Red Bulls >Ken >P.S.: Hey - are there any meet-ups before the Glasgow gig? Someone should >TAKE CONTROL! Heh. GRRRRR! im taking control. (ish) i propose a meet-up in a drinking establishment before we go to belle and sebastian. not the most radical idea in the world, i know, but i think it'll do. i was thinking of the qmu itself, *BUT* its no longer term-time, is it open all the time? will it let in large numbers of non-students? anyone who can help me, let me know. i may be being silly and the qmu is an option, but i propose curlers as a venue for a number of reasons. 1. - its nice and has a (reasonably) good jukebox. no b&s, but more indie-ish than poppy. (blur, gomez, etc) 2. - its right-next door to hillhead underground station, so anyone coming from far away (ken?) or just the other side of the city, can get there easily from the centre of town. 3. - its a 5minute walk away from the qmu. 4. - i will probably be working in echo records in byres road on thursday, and curlers is right across the road. if we meet there, then i can be lazy and not walk very far! 5. - its one of the 'its-a-scream' pubs, and students get yummy discounts!! 6. - ive been drinking in there for a couple of years now (im 18), so it shouldnt be *too much* of a problem for any mini-sinisterines to come along. (not that im condoning under-age drinking or anything, but if those youngsters are gonna drink, then would it not be better for them to do so with the supervision of big and wise sinister folk?) this is a provisional plan, and if anyone can see any major flaws in it, then let me know. if anyone has a major problem with curlers, again let me know. time : eh...when is it acceptable to start drinking? if im not working ill start drinking early, (bout4?). if i am working, ill just try and get off work early. (bout4?) hope to see lots of people there, mike.xx _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Sinister: Stories from the town, stories from the city
by Peter Carter 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

Kieran Devaney pointed out that it is the season for end of year poles... and I couldn't agree more. With that in mind, I've compiled my own list. So, without further ado, the top 9.5 most credible records still on sale during the 2001 shopping period (sponsored by Jo Whiley): 1. The Best of the Beatles - The Beatles 2. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony - Beethoven 3. Nevermind - Nirvana 4. The Number One Hits - Elvis Presley 5. White on Blonde - Bob Dylan 6. Billie Holiday - Greatest Hits - Billie Holiday 7. Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix 8. OK Computer - Radiohead 9. The Very Best of Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra 9.25. Is This It? - The Strokes 9.5. White Blood Cells -The White Stripes There, I trust I've covered all my bases. On a slightly less pissy and sarcastic note, I'd like to qualify my comments on the Tompaulin album. Someone said a while ago that they disagreed with my comments on it, well, I think perhaps I was a little harsh. The truth is, it has some wonderful songs in it, particularly All Your Favourite Records, Daydreaming, The Boy Hairdresser and Second Rate Republic. However, there are also a few problems. 1. About a third of the album is filler, songs that really aren't important at all. 2. Of the rest, two of the tracks I already have on other records. 3. Because I'm used to their almost flawless E.Ps (the B-side of Bootboys single excepted), I was probably expecting a little more than I should have been. So my reaction is mostly due to circumstance, and I would still recommend it as a heartily worthwhile recording :). Well, I think that's it from me, nothing else much interesting has happened yet. Though Kara it coming to visit little old me in Inkland soon, so that should be wondrous :) Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year all, Peter +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Sinister: A redder shade of neck on a whiter shade of trash
by Daplyn Elizabeth 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

Buenos lunes a todos mis amigos. Three quarters of an hour on the way to work is a long time (some of it, indeed, on a bus), but it's much better with a lovely portable CD player. And an hour at the weekend reorganising my music collection (in the course of an almighty cleanup in preparation for Christmas sparkliness) has led me down the memory lane of P!O!P!, if you will. So I listened to "At the Club" by Kenickie this morning as I wandered towards the bus station, boarded the (luckily correct) bus, and finally disembarked in the *industrial park* (park? As if, tchah) whose precincts I have the particular joy to be working within. The bus passes a convent on the way, which is intriguing, but that's about all that's interesting about my daily morning journey, apart from bringing me into contact with schoolchildren again after a lacuna of several years, which is of note purely due to my continually recurring amazement at the varied habits of individual species of the aforesaid. Picture my amazement at just how tightly teenage girls can tie their hair back these days. The lad and lasses of Kenickie are a couple of years older than me, so I was listening to the album first when I was emerging from my nasty (navy, with pink gingham shirt) school uniform into the relative freedom of the Sixth Form Dress Code, and entirely appropriate for those bleak times it most certainly was. "We can't work with heavy coats - they're not revealing; We've got to see each others' clothes, and now we're freezing..." Despite not coming from Newcastle (surely an oversight on the part of the Creator) I empathise with this. Brrr. Although at the time I was more interested in having the right Doc Martens and cardigans (which are much warmer than your customary leopard-print clubgear) to wear down the bog-standard live indie nites at Gillingham's Oasthouse Community Centre (famed in song and story). O the Medway Towns, how very horrible you are. Speaking of sartorial matters, I have fantastic new pinstripe trews with simply enormous turnips. Sorry, turnups. You know. I may wear them bowling *some day soon*. *** <<A light comes on, 5 seconds pass, the light goes off, 5 seconds pass, the light comes on, etc. Personally I thought the judges made the wrong decision. There was this rather groovy photographer, who made documentaries on his family, and besides minimalists get on my nerves.>> Andrew, Martin Creed is not particularly Minimalist. Speaking as one with a passing acquaintance with the movement, it's about being true to materials (see Carl Andre) and spaces (Richard Serra) and architectural form (Donald Judd) and concepts (Robert Morris). Although Creed could be shoehorned into any or all of these categories, it would be anachronistic and facile. And besides, he ripped my degree portfolio off with that light thing, which is to say, he has good taste ;) Feel free to call me an arty wanker. Many have. ** And who amongst us is going to be feeling Strangely Fruity in London for the New Year? Bugger 'A Child's Christmas in Wales', I'm heading over the border. Spent a while last week constructing my Sinister exchange presents and wrapping them up lovingly (OK, hurriedly, I had to catch the post). And after all, what can be more joyous and fulfilling than an hour with a hot-glue gun and a project to complete? Besos (pero solamente a _unas_ personas felizes) Liz D :x "And people say, the games you play; You're either weird or lonely" The Beatified Nicholas Drake, Esq. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Sinister: goodbye...............for now
by Doyle Patrick 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

Hello all, sorry I haven't sent alot of messages over the short time I have been a member of the list, but I have loved reading all your mails. I recently failed my Psychology assesment (bugger) probably due to my lack of essay writing!! Anyway, the Christmas holidays are on their way and I won't be able to read your mails for weeks now! so I'm tempararily unsubscribing from the list. I can't wait to see you all at the Glasgow gig on Thursday and im sure the gig will be great, Anyone know whos supporting??? I will re-subscribe to the list when school starts again and no doubt I will fail more Psychology assesments..ah well! Patrick Doyle, "The kid with the crimped and overheated hair" P.S Anyone whos going to the Glasgow gig please come and say hi +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Sinister: nice day for a spam (one glasgow ticket for sale)
by Kenneth P Y Chu 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

Ten pounds and a kiss and it's yours. In true Jools Holland style, E-mail, phone/text me (07967 755446) with the reason why should you be sold a B&S ticket. Ken P.S.: Sorry for the short message I'm still a bit ill - I'll write properly next time. _________________________________________________________________ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Anyone need tickets for Glasgow B&S gig on the 20th?
by Mark Casarotto 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

Hello, I thought I'd let you know that I *may* have two spare tickets for B&S in Glasgow on Thursday ("may" because it's only about 80% certain that I'll have them spare), so if anyone's interested, can they email me off list? It may be 24 hours or so before I can confirm they've got the tickets, so apologies for that... See you in Glasgow :) Mark xxx ********************************************************************** HIT Entertainment PLC, Maple House 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF Tel: +44 (20)7 554 2500, Fax: +44 (20)7 388 9321 The contents of this e-mail from HIT Entertainment PLC are confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy or further distribute this e-mail; please notify us by telephone on +44 (20)7 554 2500, and delete this message from your computer system. This e-mail has been checked by our anti-virus system before leaving us; we accept no responsibility for the e-mail and any attachments once they leave us. www.hitentertainment.com www.bobthebuilder.com www.hitwildlife.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: T.O.P.
by MyMomSays＠aol.com 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Lately I have been going on a lot of walks--sometimes I go alone and bring along music so I don't get lonely, and sometimes my sister goes along with me. But mostly, I go alone. I live in a neighboor adjacent to Bittersweet Park--and, for some reason, this neighborhood is called Bittersweet. As a kid I didn't realize the meaning of Bittersweet--I merely associated it with a color that was some orangey brown in my box of Crayolas; right now I can't actually remember if there ever was an actual color called Bittersweet, but this orangey-brown, perfect for coloring in the empty outlines of a running Deer--I called it such. Once someone visiting from out-of-town commented in this odd name for such a place--Bittersweet is a weird name for a neighborhood and a nearby park. My friend answered his question by saying "Children play here, but blood has been shed." I like the idea of some ancient mishap going down at Bittersweet park; the settlers drinking the tainted water from bittersweet lake and going nuts and killing their own children. I know it's ridiculous of me to want such a thing to have happened--but I can get away with it because I know it didn't occur. Bittersweet was some before-sleep daydream constructed by a bored mid-70's developer. Twenty years ago this was dirt. But I often take a walk by the park. The other night I made a new friend--a jaunting collie that was chasing geese. I never know what to do with my hands and arms when I am walking. One could move them back and forth merrily, but I always feel sort of dorky doing that. Usually I end up shoving them in my pockets teen-angstily. But I was walking along and this Collie jaunted beside me throughout the duration of my walk, eventually coming to regard me as its owner--perking up at the sound of my voice, obeying my random claps and whistles. We walked together for a while, all around the park and then through the neighboring houses, and I eventually lost my new friend. I had daydreamed of me actually being able to live that 12-year old's fantasy of "He followed me home"... but, I lost him somewhere. Last weekend I decided to take another walk with a B&S mix tape I'd made. It was mid-afternoon, around 3:30, and I had to weave through about three hundred canadian geese that were milling around the sidewalk--I was really enjoying myself, don't get me wrong.. the setting sun and the frosty air accompanied with a few of my favorite Belle and Sebastian songs. But I did find out something I didn't know; I never know what to do with my hands when I am out walking, but I found that a few hand claps can stir hundreds of geese into flight. lv mandee +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Sinister: twiglets and hedgehogs
by Kieran Devaney 16 Dec '01

16 Dec '01

Dear sinister, tis the season for end of year lists/polls, especially ones about your favourite records or albums of the year. there are lists of certain publications favourite 10/20/50/100 albums from this year all over the shop. am i the only one who finds them annoying and pointless? "but they're just a bit of fun" i hear you cry, well maybe. but i personally think that any list like that seems to stop people talking about the actual records in the list, and instead the conversation will turn to pointless 'this should've been higher than that' or 'wheres...?' type statements. such lists are not conducive to good conversation. plus these lists always ignore more left-field choices in favour of whatever has been fashionable this year - as shown by the strokes/white stripes topping almost every single list i've seen. so maybe the 'wheres...?' claims are not that unjustified, but what i mean is that people tend to start picking apart the lists rather than the records themselves. so neither the artists nor the music benefit particularly. why are the white stripes better than sparklehorse? because they are higher in the chart. seems rather silly and self-defeating if you ask me. nobody did ask me, but i'm saying it anyway. what i'd prefer is if people picked their favourite records of the year (whether it's just one or more than 500) and said what they like about them, rather than playing radically different records off against eachother. am i being overly harsh on list compliers, or is the whole concept of best of the year lists inherently flawed? are such things symbolic of a society obsessed with quantifying everything - having to turn art into sport? do IPC subeditors dictate our youth? answers on a postcard please joe pancake/rachel vester said something along the lines of: "Jeanette Winterson, who is the most abrasive and disagreeable author I can think of offhand. She writes in an irritating way and just takes herself far too seriously while generally being pretentious. And being a total bitch." all of which seems fair enough. she is certainly abrasive and very pretentious (especially some bits of 'the passion' i found that book very difficult to get to grips with), though i would say someone like Joseph Heller was more disagreeable, not because of his politics or anything, but more because of his 'clever' style; which i find almost impossible to like. while jeanette winterson is definitely pretentious and abrasive, i think you have to admire the singularity of her vision - and i think her writing is very affecting at times. i'm not a huge fan of hers though, so perhaps someone who is could do a better job of defending her. i only mentioned her in my post because she seems the complete opposite of JK Rowling and her awful harry potter books which are so fashionable. i'd much rather someone like winterson was en vogue (though i don't think ms winterson herself would enjoy it). the kids reading harry potter could do with an injection of pretension i think, if only so they know what it looks like. JK Rowling once did a visit to the library where i work to promote the first harry potter book (before my time there though i'm afraid), apparently it wasn't very well attended or anything - whereas now just putting on a crappy 'harry potter activity day' basically consisting of the books on tape (the steven fry ones) being played at considerable volume, and an amateur party wizard bloke coming in draws out all the local kids and whips them up into a potter induced frenzy. how times have changed. thats enough for now i think i'm listening to autechre at the moment - thats not very twee is it? i must try harder at that yours faithfully kieran _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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