Hi, I've been a bit busy during the latest days it seems, musically anyway! Came home from London and the wonderful B & S concert a few days ago and yesterday there was this pretty cool music festival in Stockholm, Sweden called Accelerator. Bands playing includes the Moldy Peaches, the Strokes, Arab Strap, Katryn Williams, the Magnetic Fields, Black Heart Procession. My personal favourite was the Magnetic Fields. They were really great. Even though Stephen Merrit didn't seem to be on such a good mood. The played for about one hour and a half and most of the songs were from the "69 Love songs" album. They were really strong live. The songs were performed with so much feeling. So what do you think about the Strokes. Apparently they are the next big thing. I mean, sure they're great and all and pretty cool but I don't know. They seem to be a bit too cool and a bit too much we're-from-New-York-and-we-don't-care. A bit too much hype if you will. But what do I know... By the way, sorry for this but if there is anyone who knows anything about an available apartment in Stockholm starting this autumn I would be more than greatful if that person would contact me in private. I'm starting school at the University of Stockholm this autumn and currently have no idea where I should stay. Thanks Rock On. ///Alexander +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
start the week with rener! or don't. Alexander Bartilson wrote:
yesterday there was this pretty cool music festival in Stockholm, Sweden called Accelerator. <snip> My personal favourite was the Magnetic Fields. They were really great. Even though Stephen Merrit didn't seem to be on such a good mood.
that was probably the old food poisoning kicking in ... i went to see the Mag Fields a day or two later in dublin, and they'd been on the point of cancelling the show because stephin had been so ill. but he recovered enough to do the show in his pyjama top, fair play to him. he was quite subdued compared to normal, and they altered the set list so claudia got to sing more songs, which was lovely - claudia's great. it was a completely top show. from experience, my top tip for avoiding food poisoning is: never eat prawns in dublin. not even those dublin bay prawns (recogniseable by their beards and their tendency to break into renditions of The Ould Triangle at the sight of a pint of guinness) dirtyvicar wrote:
Rener made a new friend who it somehow became apparent had kept going to gigs to see the Mull Historical Society support someone, only to arrive late and find the headliners already onstage. He then told her an amusing anecdote about the time he met Isobel Campbell, but that's Rener's story so I'll let her tell it.<<
it's not that amusing, really, but oh all right. the conversation between isobel and this guy somehow got around to Fans, and isobel said that she was a bit scared of them, especially the ones who send her their favourite childhood cuddly toys in the post. she then elucidated: <passable chirpy scottish accent> "i wouldn't mind, but ... well, some of them haven't been washed for years, and they're really *smelly*"</chirpy scottish accent>. i hope no-one on this list is offended by this story. i didn't make it up .... and i have a giant cuddly ladybird that i've had since childhood (it was my last santa claus present, sniff). it is pretty smelly. i'm not posting it to isobel, though. will salt wrote:
I'm not a fan of summer. It's too hot and sweaty. I prefer autumn, when I can snuggle up inside under my quilt, against the rain and the wet leaves. Can't we just get this season over with?<<
Could someone, preferably called Keith, please tell me which Thin Lizzy records Phil Lynott used his
too right. another month should do it, and then we can all take to the streets once more. yay! peter miller wrote: perspex bass on?<< someone's mentioned here before that the perspex bass was a gift to stuart murdoch from philo (as we ould dubs like to call him, whuh whuh whuh). is there any truth at all in this story? i ask because phil lynott died in 1983, and therefore i'm a bit skeptical. or sceptical ... furthermore, i grew up being forcefed thin lizzy and i don't remember philo having a perspex bass, only a mirrored one. of course, the perspex one could have been post-lizzy. anyone know more about this? bye! rener ===== "Yarr, its kind of you to deliver these copies of Jugs. They'll keep my men from resorting to homosexuality fer about 10 minutes. harr harr harr." - The Cap'n ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Hello you fellows... Support you local independant record shop, oh yes please do. I went in to mine today to grab a copy of the new Beta Band type CD (which is great by the way) and they presented me with a copy of the Jonathan David video... which I'd asked about a while ago. How fantastic of them... it said 60's & 70's version on it... does that mean there are other versions? Goodness. I wonder, am I supporting them for the right reasons, or am I using them... perhaps they're using me too... they do seem to have a lot of money that was once mine. Rener asked...
someone's mentioned here before that the perspex bass was a gift to stuart murdoch from philo (as we ould dubs like to call him, whuh whuh whuh). is there any truth at all in this story?
Cough... well I'll confess that it was me that called out 'nice guitar' when Stuart was putting on his stunning perspex bass at the Scarborough gig... I was most impressed by it. He told us all that it was a gift from the band, but that it used to belong to... well you guessed it. he seemed to cherish it. I was (once again) listening to the session the other day... does anyone else feel that when Stuart says "he amuses me greatly" he might be being a little sarcastic? Of course there've been reams written about the gigs... so I'll just say a cheery thanks to big Stu for giving me a lift there... and for providing enough quiche to feed a small nation (of quiche eaters) at our little picnic on the beach... where no quiche eating nations were to be seen, just Liz, Stu and myself, and later on Charlie, Mo and Frasier (who I knew at school) and their friends Tom and Lauren (??? I didn't hear her properly when she said it). There were other people picnicing on the beach, but not with us. I went looking for other sinisters but chickened out of actually asking any of them... so if you saw a fellow wandering around the fringes of your group, perhaps pretending to have spotted something glinting in the sand.... well that was me, before I returned to the quiche, sandwiches and vodka lemonade. Mmmm I saw a few people wearing ampersand Teeee-shirts at the Radiohead type gig in Oxford the other week... Hello if you were there. I really enjoyed that one, and have since bought a Sigur Ros CD... It fits in at the uber-mellow end of my CD collection (when I finally get around to reorganising them by mood). Does anyone know where you can find a translation of their lyrics? I also nabbed myself some blue cord flares, and a girl in the rain, though I'm not entirely sure what's going on there, but she seems lurverly, I like her lots on the phone, but I'd like her more in person some more I think... maybe she nabbed me, I'm not sure. Anyway... I'm a-rambling now. Hope that stuff is great for you all. Love. Jonny (is this me for life?). +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
participants (3)
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Alexander Bartilson -
Jonathan Howell -
Rener