In a message dated 99-07-30 20:24:37 EDT, kwl96@hamp.hampshire.edu writes: << but this was in last week's new yorker magazine: "looper is the brainchild of belle and sebastian bassist stuart david, his visual-artist wife, karn, and his photographer brother, guitarist ronnie black. stuart sings and speaks with a soft scottish lilt, and the group's low-fi songs are infused with the sounds of children cackling, typewriter keys clicking, andother odd sounds. their performances are backed by karn's homespun video images of toy scooterw, tree houses, and spaceships. the net effect is a childlike exuberance that's still enver far from the cruelty of youth, a prime example of which is the lovely ballad "burning flies".

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i heard about this article as well but not by reading it. it was 2 am in the morning and my friend and i just got off the train from the looper show in NYC. the train car was empty by this stop and i had just finished an article about Stanley Kubrick in Premiere. so down the steps we went to go and look for his dad's car. when we found it and got in, his dad starts shooting off these looper facts. "How was the show with the bassist from Belle and Sebastian? Did they have any video footage of kids running around?," were almost his exact words (it was 2 in the morning). It was quite the strange occurance because my friend had told none of this to his father. so my friend got around to asking where the hell he found that out from and he came back with, "It was in the New Yorker." i myself am a quiet lurker. i only wrote this because im at my aunt's house with nothing better to do. the looper show was quiet entertaining but i was a little disappointed that the songs were stripped down. they just didn't have enough people to play the little riffs that get added throughout each song. my friend and i waited outside tramps from about 5:30 to 8:30 because we got into the city too early. the plus side to that was we got to talk to stu d and karn outside the club before the show. they seemed kinda surprised to see anyone there that early. they signed my friend's looper cd (i forgot mine) but i got my ticket stub signed by both of them. karn used stu's back as a writing surface. well, i guess i have nothing else to write. wait, i've thought of something. i met some people at the show who were big Radiohead fans but we didn't get to talk much. they said they were on the RH mailing list but if they're on this one too, email me if you'd like to talk more about the Radiohead or whatever. -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" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+