Sinister: a one line joke virus warning foubling as a test message
hmm. Virus warning. I have a friend who forwards them constantly, and it really bugs me. I am getting fed up with spam (especially from some guy called Lowfly or Art Vortex who, unsolicitated, sends me big graphic attachments. Annoying ..... Anyway, to matters at hand. ie, eg, or ..... for example ***BELLE AND SEBASTIAN*** I am kinda annoyed with the complete lack of Belle & Sebastian in my life. I know we (as a list) have been over and over the whole thing about no one in the band wanting it to be *all* they do, and I know that the band owes me nothing, but still ..... It's not like there wouldn't been any new material. There are *loads* of brilliant songs which haven't been released. Lord Antony, Rhoda, The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner, plus the myriad of songs which were (supposedly) recorded during the "Peasant" sessions and have never seen the light of day. So really, I don't think a new album would be too difficult to hastily compile. Also, the lack of gigs. Now personally I don't really care too much, because ... hey, fat chance they'd ever come to New Zealand, but it does kinda suck. If you're gonna tour constantly (like Bob Dylan) you can forgive an artist for not recording much, because they're always on the road. Silimarly, if you want to be The Beatles, and just *stop* playing live, for whatever reason, and just make music, then .... well, more music. Cool. Unfortunately, B&S are doing neither, and may well turn out to be the Def Lepard of the 00's My sneaking suspicion is that the band has, for all intents and purposes, broken up.I think Stuart D leaving was a bit of a blow for the band, but they soldiered on and released the album anyway, and theb did precisely *no* promotion for it, aside from one press conference, an phone conversation with Steve Wells and a mimed appearance on TOTP. Then nothing. My friends, I really believe, though it gieves me to say it, that this may well be the end of the line. Most of the band members seem to be off doing the solo thing (apart from Stuart, who, lets face it, is really the only person we're desperate for solo things from ...) and no news has leaked from the camp in more than six months. And what the hell's going on with Jeepster? The site never gets updated, the shop didn't even sell the Christmas album, and there have been no newsletters in months. RIP? oh God, I hope not. feeling bleak ..... Lawrence +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Little treasures, A couple of follow-ups to things in the last day. Amongst the *sparkling* posts (may I say) of the last 24 hours I found: Lawrence Mikkelsen said:
I am getting fed up with spam (especially from some guy called Lowfly or Art Vortex who, unsolicitated, sends me big graphic attachments. Annoying .....
I thought I was the only one getting these. Various addresses from the ip.pt domain have been trying to send YOU all lots of advertising mails for "LowFly records" and "ArtVortex" since September, and taking no notice of my pleas for them to stop. You haven't been seeing them because I blocked them with the list software, but many contained very big attachments (pictures and the like, not nudey, unfortunately) which would be a real pain for slow modem users. They seem to originate from a particular user on the list who today is no longer a listee and only ever tried to send an advert anyway. If you've received them they'll be from addresses like: arnaldopedro@ip.pt, lowfly@ip.pt, artvortex@ip.pt, agenda_lowfly@ip.pt. I'm pretty horrified to hear that he, or they, have been sending this junk individually to list members too. If you've been getting them too, please don't send me a mail expecting a response because I'm waterlogged with email, but send me a blank email with "junk email from ip.pt" in the Subject so I know and can report this. I get really *really* angry at this sort of abuse of the goodwill of all you post and *don't* try and sell the rest of us things, apart from your bodies of course. Particularly as Miss Print is so adamantly anti-adverts and all such commercial tartiness. One of these days I'm going to put up a banner ad or popup window on the Sinister site to shock you all. Just for a day :) If anyone wants to see my grumpy mail to the ISP who host these cowboys, just to prove I CARE!, go to: http://www.missprint.org/sinister/ip.pt.txt It's not very interesting reading though. I received an auto-response saying they take this kind of thing seriously and will act, so we'll see. Needless to say, never *ever* buy anything from LowFly records. Lawrence also said:
My sneaking suspicion is that the band has, for all intents and purposes, broken up.
As a few people have said recently, they've been in the recording studio! And are at the moment I think. Word has it they're recording two singles, but even undressing and running naked round Neil Mr Manager Sir from Banchory in the chatroom wouldn't extract the names of said songs. I can however, exclusively reveal, that one of the new songs is a sort of "prog-rock version of 'Lipstick, Powder and Paint'" and none contain "1991-style indie pseudo-dub bass". Such are the vaguaries of chat-room conversation. Oh, and Mick is playing bass, at least in the studio. Apparently if you're a fan of Petula Clark, you won't be disappointed. Peter? As to all the "they're so lazy" talk, I can't help wondering if anyone would riot if a Jean-Paul Sartre decided to spend 2001 on a beach. Because he wanted to. Honey x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead 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 +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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