I know the subject has passed, however reading of bands that do not indulge in self promotion I thought it appropiate I offer a little word of mouth information on Luna and their latest album release... Titled "The Days Of Our Nights" it is due out on May 25, and it was originally titled "The Young And The Restless"!!! For those not familiar with their official website, courtesy of bassist Justin Harwood, it is www.fuzzywuzzy.com Can anyone explain the expression on Shaun Edin's face as he plays??? May looms as an infinitely pleasing month for cd purchases. Bye Chris +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
hello, my name is kit. listening to the looper lp and thinking again about that dreaded troon promenade with it's bugging system designed to catch glaswegian crack dealers which cruelly backfired one day back in '78, recording all my deranged infantile imaginactions onto a microtape before sending them into the ethers to emerge, not unlike the bloke with the envelope in the rain in Back To The Future, in the greasy paws of one Stuart David twenty years later and from which he constructed his Looper myth. he even has the gall to write a story about a beach. the cheeck of it. i listened to the Looper lp on the way to school today. the sun was in the sky, the sky was blue, and the little tale about laying on your back and looking at the stars with your back getting wet from the dew, well i tell you my heart lodged in my throat. i played it in my class several hours later to the strains of 'what's that shit?' except they never said shit because they would have got into trouble. obviously. kids today. no taste. sheesh. why does no-one talk about glo-worm on the list? don't people know of their god-like genius? and is anyone else beside themselves at the prospect of the Black Tambourine CD coming out sometime soon on Slumberland records? What do you mean, Slumberwhat and Black tambawho? You never heard 'Throw Aggi Off The Bridge' with it's Meat Whiplash sonic wall of melody? And you ask Meat Wholash???? get an education, kids! someone mentioned Luna. their new single is fantastic, plus they do a cover of Kraftwerk's 'Neon Lights'. it's fine fine fine, which is all you'd expect from a group that marries Galaxie 500 to the mythical Feelies. Did you know that Del Amitri once wanted to be like the Feelies? the new Wilco record is lovely too. keep the faith, the duke ------------------------------------------ 'what's the name they call ones like us?' ------------------------------------------ Tangents On-Line http://www.tangents.co.uk PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK editor@tangents.co.uk ------------------------------------------ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Well I would have put some money on that horse today, but I'm still recovering from the news that Mark C thinks of my singing every time he hears Modern Rock Song. Poor bugger. And I must just say how nice it is to have the delightful Genevieve back with us again. I'm just jealous of all the people at her prom who'll see her in an old-style heaving bosom type dress. We demand photos! Anyway, the real reason I'm posting is because noone has mentioned yet the Genital Warts article in this week's NME. It's quite long, but here goes: "People are rarely what they seem. It's the quiet, 'keep themselves to themselves' types who end up rampaging through shopping centres with rifles, and the jovial pub jokers who end up putting their heads in the gas oven. Meeting Isobel Campbell, sometime cellist with Belle And Sebastian, in the sunny surrounds of a South London bistro, you'd have her pencilled down as a gentle, happy-go-lucky funstress within 15 seconds. And you'd be wrong. The release of her first solo project, The Gentle Waves' 'The Green Fields Of Foreverland...' will show that behind the effervescent persona and lilting Glaswegian burr lurks a heart of darkness. Its eerie, psychedelic-folk overtones, leavened by some sparkling songwriting, cannot mask the fact that this is mournful stuff. "I am quite grim," she smiles. "Ask anyone that knows me properly. A lot of people think there's nothing going on in my head because I'm giggly, but I'm a lot more thoughtful than people give me credit for." So exactly how did this exercise in dourness come about? What was it that turned this mild-mannered, multi-instrumentalist into a squeakier version of Nico? She pauses. She's not really sure. The facts are simple. Before joining Belle And Sebastian she was a 19-year-old university student, lazing about, going to parties and buying records, but long, long before this, she had started writing. "I had been making four-track recordings with friends for ages," she explains. "But I was writing songs even when I was a wee girl." While her musical contribution to B&S has been plentiful, she still harboured ambitions to make her own record. In the end it took only one week out of the band's busy schedule to make that dream a reality. "We'd been away in America in the tourbus and it was awful," she groans. "It doesn't matter if you're with the most wonderful people in the world, if you haven't got your own space it's just..." she makes a face, "Grrrrrrr. We had four days off when we got back and after I'd caught up on my sleep I made the record." Recorded with the help of friends and bandmates Richard Colburn, Chris Geddes, Stuart Murdoch, Mick Cooke and Stevie Jackson, 'The Green Fields...' and forthcoming single 'Weathershow', sound anything but rushed. That being said, there is a song on the album,'Tree Lullaby', which appears to be addressed to, well, a tree. Care to explain? "It's not to a tree," she states with mild disdain. "It's more humanity." She rolls her eyes in disgust: "Oh God, that's so cheesy. I like trees though. Sometimes trees look like people because they're so twisted, y'know?" Erm, yeeeesss. We edge towards the door smiling and making sure to maintain eye contact. Sure, Isobel Campbell seems like sweetness and light personified but you can never be sure." I don't think I'll bother typing in the Looper live review as well because, well, it's not quite so complimentary. Other top moments from this week's NME include their description of "Belle And Sebastian's forthcoming nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp gangwanking whimsy-thon". I kid you not... Big Stu PS If you're bored, head for http://www.email.net/work-well-together.html o o o, ,o, ,o o o> <o> <o o o o |^ ^|^ ^| | |~ ~|~ ~| | \> <X> </> <|> /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ Hey! Macarena... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Stuart Gardiner