Sinister: Has it really been a decade?
Hello Sinister Since there's some noise round these parts at the moment, this seemed a good time to pop my head up out of the parapet and (re-)say hi (well, technically I think my out of office did that for me the other day but please let's pretend that terrible mailing list faux pas didn't happen). Ten years ago, when I was a lowly undergrad, I did my dissertation on the way Belle and Sebastian fans and Cliff Richard fans used the internet... some of you may remember, if you were around then. Anyway, I had loads of juicy material but never did anything with it beyond the dissertation, and now I work in the world of academia (in the media department at Sheffield Hallam University), and have the means to use it, so I want to repeat my study ten years on to see what has changed and what has remained for the two fan communities. The aim would be to turn the study into something publishable, using material from the original study alongside new material for comparison. If it gets published I'll find a way of letting you all read it. I would love to interview some of you (via email/IM/phone/Facebook or whatever works best) about your experiences of Sinister and/or the wider B&S fandom over the past decade. There'll probably also be questionnaires for those who don't want to say a lot, but I want to start with interviews as I think they will potentially be the richest source of material. If you are interested please email me (r.a.deller@shu.ac.uk) and I'll send you a consent form and we can chat further. You don't have to have been a member (or a fan) ten years ago, as I am interested in what happened in between as well as how things were in 2000 and how they are in 2010, though if you were around ten years ago, even better! Oh, and I got a first last time around for the piece so, belatedly, thank you all very much! Ruth/Rad x +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I see (where) the author of the original book about Belle & Sebastian has expired aged 81. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10709826 http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/Belle_and_Sebastian_author_Cecile_Aubry_dies_at_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_et_S%C3%A9bastien The funeral is on Monday at the church of Dourdan, Paris. Belle et Sebastian became a famous and popular children's tv series in France and then in the world in the early seventies. [Yes - then in ... the world.] We pay homage to her work. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Hello Sinister I was sad to read about the death of Mme Aubry, via The Pinefox. I've never knowingly seen Belle et Sébastien, the cartoon, but (obviously) Belle & Sebastian, the band, wouldn't be who they are today without her – literally – so for that I am grateful. Her passing coincides with another sad loss - this time more personal, but no less B&S-related. My last surviving original B&S badge from years ago, given to me by Jo Perry (of this parish) and worn on many a coat and bag for many a year, mysteriously popped off my bag somewhere between the Latitude festival and my workplace this morning. Now all that remains is the wire frame on which the button sat, rusty, bereft and naked. I have no idea where the button made its leap, and the shear number of miles I have covered in that time renders a search somewhat futile. So that's that, I suppose. I was aware of its precariousness, and also its preciousness, but never really did anything to safeguard it. I sometimes thought of it as the last remaining Beatle; I have a feeling that Ringo will be the next to go (but not for a while, I do hope!), and then Paul will be left to carry the torch alone. That last badge (the purple and white one with BELLE AND SEBASTIAN written across the middle) was my last Beatle - the final concrete link to Back Then. Now I'll just have to remember. In related news of B&S absence, does anyone else find the announcement of not a single tour date anywhere in the South-East slightly snubbing? Maybe I'm sounding London-centric. Maybe I need to get out of the city, and into the springtime. Bulk love Sam.x ================================ "He's strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly has a good vocabulary" - Holden Caulfield ----------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:52:28 -0700 From: pinefox1@yahoo.com Subject: Sinister: Belle et Sébastien To: sinister@missprint.org
I see (where) the author of the original book about Belle & Sebastian has expired aged 81.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10709826 http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/Belle_and_Sebastian_author_Cecile_Aubry_dies_at_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_et_S%C3%A9bastien
The funeral is on Monday at the church of Dourdan, Paris.
Belle et Sebastian became a famous and popular children's tv series in France and then in the world in the early seventies. [Yes - then in ... the world.]
We pay homage to her work.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Sam Walton