Just in case you delete this, remember that a copy of this mail-out can be found on the Fan Club site at http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ -- Belle and Sebastian -- Well, we promised we'd let you know what was happening on the gig front, so here's the confirmed details: Belle and Sebastian are playing the Manchester Town Hall on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th December. There will be no support band on the Saturday night, however Future Pilot will be playing the Sunday night. Now, as we know an awful lot of want to go to these gigs, we've managed to secure 350 tickets per night to sell via the fan club. Yaaaayyyy! We hear you all scream. Well, this is how it's going to work. The Tickets set aside for the fan club are available to those paying by cheque/postal order ONLY! (This includes international money orders/Eurocheques etc.). NO cash or credit card payments will be accepted. There will be a maximum of four tickets per transaction, and each ticket is subject to a booking fee (which includes postage and packaging costs). Tickets cost £9 plus the 70 pence booking fee, total cost per ticket is £9.70 EACH. All cheques/postal orders/IMO's/ Eurocheques etc., are to be made payable to FOUNDATION and posted to 191 Alexandra Park Road, London, N22 4BJ, England. DO NOT send your ticket orders to the fan club PO Box address or to the band, as your order will not be processed, and you'll regrettably miss out. Your tickets will be dispatched within two weeks of cheque clearance. For those of you who wish to buy your tickets in person, or by credit card, there are a few outlets to do so from: Tickets for the Manchester gig are available; in person at: Piccadilly Records on Oldham Street, Manchester (speak to Laura 'cos she's lovely!). by Credit Card at: Stargreen UK Ticket Outlets on 0171 734 8932 and in person & by Credit Card at: The Piccadilly Box Office inside the Virgin Megastore, Market Street, Manchester. 0161 832 1111 (9am to 9pm seven days a week). Ticket prices are still £9 each, but will be subject to a booking fee at the outlet's discretion. Please phone the outlets for more information. There will not be any tickets for sale on the night at the gigs, so if you want to go, you'd better get your mitts on a ticket now! Or, you could try to win a pair! Just look below and enter the fab and groovy compo to try a more risky but cheaper way of acquiring tickets. -- Competition -- Yes, it's competition time again, and if you can answer the following question correctly, you will go into the draw to win a pair of tickets to the Sunday (28/12) night show, plus maybe some other bits and bobs. Ok, the question is; What football team do (the majority) of Belle and Sebastian support? All answers on a track and field postcard to the PO Box address below (e-mail entries will not be accepted), and if you win, you'll be winging your way to Liverpool and Widnes, well, no Manchester really, to see B&S live! The competition closes on the 12th December, and the winner will be notified by phone (so please include a daytime phone number) by 19th December. Good luck! And here's another reason to get to the Manchester gigs - we've had a lot of people inquiring about the Judy and the Dream of Horses mugs, which sold out at the Kelvingrove/QM gig. Well they're back in production, and there will be another limited run, this time 300, to be sold exclusively at the Manchester gigs. We would sell them through the fan-club, however the P&P costs are extortionate, and we don't want to take the risk of stock being damaged in the post, so mugs at gigs it's going to be. Isobel is also designing another badge or two, these will be a button badge design (similar to the original Dog On Wheels badges), and there's even rumours of Belle and Sebastian stickers too, so please come and visit us at the merchandise stall at Manchester to find out what's new. Rest assured the badges and stickers will be available by mail order too, so keep sending your stamps, and you'll keep getting more info! Speaking of merchandise, we've got the brown and silver Belle and Sebastian prefect badges back in stock again, as well as the yellow/green large bus design T-shirts. The badges are £2 each, postage is free if you order another item (T-shirt/CD etc.), or enclose a SAE or extra 50 pence per badge if you're ordering them on their own. The yellow/green large bus T-shirt is £8 plus UK £1.50, Europe £2 and ROW £3.50 postage. If you need another merchandise leaflet, just write and let us know, and we'll send one out. Unfortunately, we have run out of the orange/brown medium bus T-shirts, so the only bus designs left are the yellow/green in small, medium and large, or the orange/brown in small only. Now onto other news, as you may have gathered by now, the London and Paris gigs didn't end up by going ahead. After the Manchester shows, Belle and Sebastian will probably play some gigs to coincide with the release of the Modern Rock Song EP (Jan/Feb '98), and the as-yet-untitled third album (Feb/Mar '98). There will be more news about both of these releases in the next proper mailout. On the Internet front the bands own web-site at http://www.totalweb.co.uk/belleandsebastian/ is going to feature the creative efforts of all band members in the near future, well worth using the school computers for. Oh, and one last internet thingy, Belle and Sebastian are hopefully going to participate in an internet forum chat in early December, where you can ask the band all the questions you've ever wanted answered! We don't have any details as yet, but closer to the time there should be information on both of the above-mentioned web-sites. -- Another note regarding the Manchester gigs. We are attempting to arrange a meeting-point for fans going to the gigs, and should have more details closer to the dates. If you are heading up to Manchester, and would like to meet up with other people, please phone us at home AFTER the 15th December, when we will have something sorted out. If you have any suggestions about meeting places i.e. pubs/coffee bars close to the Town Hall in Manchester, then please phone BEFORE the 15th December. Our number is 0181 560 1815 - please call between 8pm and 11pm only, and try to avoid clashes with Eastenders or any Friday night comedy, whether it be on BBC2 or Channel 4! Or as you're on the net use the feedback form to let us know your suggestions. -- . . . and here's a bit from the band. -- "At Katrina's request, here is an update from the flightdeck on how we're all managing to squander our leisure time these days. This is your Captain Sarah. A new LP is finished, or as good as finished recording anyway. The studio is too busy for us to mix it just now, and so we've gone and got ourselves an office with three desks, a couple of plants, a kettle and some pictures. Stuart Murdoch has been redefining office-boy chic. We like to think we're a finely-tuned, efficient machine with our fax machines and desks and in-and-out trays, but really our main activity is sitting around wondering at the mental health of some of the people who have written to us, and listening to Stuart David's brutal character-assaniations of our correspondents. Some kind person sent a picture of George Best in a nice pair of shorts, for which I will be eternally grateful, but I'd been away to see the Violent Femmes in London, so I don't know who it was from. I think it's fair to say games consoles are becoming influential on some of our lives. Chris and Richard have had a PlayStation habit for quite a while, and I have a clear memory of Stuart David looking for cheat book for Tomb Raider. While I was visiting my friend Gerry at the weekend, we got carried away in Woolworth's and came home with a Nintendo 64 and the Star Wars game. Since then, I've been struggling to find a reason to leave the flat. Yesterday, Boba Fett got what was coming to him, and I blasted his ship for good measure. On Tuesday, Stevie was round and said "Bah! Computer games!", but within minutes he was one of us. Side-projects are appearing all over the place too. Wee Chris and Stevie have been backing up New York power pop genius Michael Shelley in the studio and in a couple of gigs. The Two Brothers (my hobby band) will have to be put on hold until Teenage Fanclub's tour is finshed, at which point we'll go back to our gin-fuelled acoustic roots after a disastrous gig of Pastels cover versions. We've just said we'll do a radio show - Beat Patrol - on Radio Scotland on December 21st. A Belle and Sebastian Christmas special. Then the Manchester gigs, with support from Future Pilot and some DJ's on the Saturday. We're working on a few versions for a support slot we'll be doing, so our repertoire could be more varied the next time we hit your town" -- Belle & Sebastian, PO Box 14153, London SW11 4XU, UK -- Yeah, we know it was a long wait for that, but what with the details changing every two seconds we even had to update the paper version a day before we posted it and re-did all of this one. Any updates will again be posted to the sinister list and announced on the Fan Club site at the URL below. thanks David Katrina ******************************************************************** http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda@totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . 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