Hello Sinister! Thought you might like to hear about this... If it's October then it must be time for our annual Belle & Sebastian album special. The very first one of these happened by accident almost. Belle & Sebastian had announced that they were going to play all of "If You're Feeling Sinister" at the Barbican in London on Sunday September 25th, 2005, and a gang of people, many members of the Bowlie online forum, started to make plans to attend. As quite a few Bowlies were also HDIF regulars, it seemed like a good idea to have a night on the Friday to kick off the weekend, and seeing as B&S were playing all of one album, we thought we'd play all of one too - "Tigermilk". It was a funny old night really - absolutely packed with Bowlies, HDIF regulars and B&S fans, and it felt more like a family party than a regular club night. But as you might expect, with a room full of old friends who were meeting up for the first time in ages, there was lots and lots of catching up being done, and not a huge amount of dancing. The "Tigermilk" bit - we played all of the album in one go - kind of came and went, and I remember being surprised that while people danced it wasn't really a big joyous, communal event like the normal HDIFs. But it was fine - some people danced, some people chatted, it was a great, great night, just not quite what I thought it would be. The following year, we decided to do it again, only this time playing "Sinister" and not all at once, but spreading the songs out over the whole night. And it worked! So we spent the years after that working our way through the albums (skipping only "Storytelling" and "The Life Pursuit", the latter because the special last year coincided with the release of "Write About Love" and it seemed silly not to go with that one...and kind of equally wrong to go backwards in the album sequence to catch up this year....). All of which brings us back at the start of the story again - "Tigermilk". Here's how it'll work, then. We'll play all of "Tigermilk" over the course of the night - not all at once this time, but the songs dotted throughout the evening. We'll kick off with "We Rule The School" at 9.20pm, so please come along early if you want to hear the whole album. And that's that. There'll be no B&S songs from any other albums played, just the ten from "Tigermilk". Yes, just those ten songs. "The State I Am In", "Expectations", "She's Losing It", "You're Just a Baby", "Electronic Renaissance", "I Could Be Dreaming", "We Rule the School", "My Wandering Days Are Over", "I Don't Love Anyone", "Mary Jo". The photos from that original night in 2005 are here - http://www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk/sept232005a.html And I wrote a little thing on "Tigermilk" for The Guardian last year. Scroll to the end of Laura's interview - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/3...arton-interview Hope to see you there. ----------------------- How Does It Feel To Be Loved? Saturday October 22nd The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0PP, three minutes walk from Oxford Circus tube station, 9pm-3am, £4 members, £6 non members. Membership is free from www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk This is our annual Belle & Sebastian special. This time we're playing all of the band's classic debut album, "Tigermilk", over the course of the evening. We play: The Smiths * The Supremes * The Go-Betweens * Dusty Springfield * Belle & Sebastian * Love * Tammi Terrell * Aztec Camera * The Ronettes * Orange Juice * Beach Boys * The Temptations * Velvet Underground * Felt * The Shangri-Las * Primal Scream * Otis Redding * The Field Mice * Dexys Midnight Runners * Camera Obscura * The Four Tops * Melba Moore * The Orchids +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+