Re: Sinister: re: century of...
manchester was just plain weird though. yeah, doing gigs in the round has been going on since before the globe theatre was built. but usually the audience is around the players... 8) (and yes, given that all the staging was brought in it could easily have been arranged into a long, wide stage but i kind of like the way they tried something different) I was there on Sunday night. I liked it too, the way the audience was corralled into such a small area, and subsequent band movements caused maximum confusion, and most of us opted to stare hopefully at the empty mike stands, instead of craning our necks to see the top of Stuart M's head ... so I had time to look around me and listen to the songs and watch the steady progress of a wee girl in a sheepskin coat who crept past me and who wouldn't be able to see a thing unless she got to the front. Afterwards, driving to Birkenhead in the pouring rain we talked about how we felt about it. Four people's conclusions approximate as follows: Futile pilot were shite. The stage setup was unconventional, but worked. B&S kept us waiting an awful long time before they came on. But that was OK, because they were brilliant, technical hitches notwithstanding. Maybe a bit more polish next time but who wants slickness? I've seen a lot of bands (beginning with Japan at Edinburgh Playhouse when I was 14 in, er, 1982) and B&S was by turns one of the most moving, and quirky, and funny, and flawed. I think that's a good combination. Even the flawed part made no difference. It was just part of the experience. One note of dissent: I think Orange Juice's version of In A Nutshell could never be bettered. Or is this too dogmatic? Charlotte ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi, just reading your B+S bit, just had to reply with the fact that... I've seen a lot of bands (beginning with Japan at Brighton Dome when I was 14 in, er, 1982) !!!! ;-)))))) Just a thought. -- Stuart ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Charlotte Hall wrote:
One note of dissent: I think Orange Juice's version of In A Nutshell could never be bettered. Or is this too dogmatic?
Perhaps if it were actually recorded in a nutshell, preferably by some squirrels with their cheeks stuffed full of the original contents of said nutshell.
. We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we?
Is it just me, or are some of the bunnies' batteries running a bit low? I know mine are. Still, I've been given a big bunny boost by the belated news that I finally managed to put Choo Choo Mitchell in his proper place by giving him a jolly good thrashing in the exciting Ivor the Engine competition. I don't know how many other people I inadvertently humbled with my encyclope (whoops, spelling problem - irony in action) dic knowledge of children's television, but at any rate it's the taking part that's important. I'm just off for a victory lap around my computer terminal. Trousers, once again I doff my trousers to you and your fiendish competitions. Obviously this one was much more difficult than the first. I've spent half the afternoon reading the backlog of messages and I've forgotten all the things I was going to answer, add to, distort, etc. Whoever was asking about videos - Andy Dean's ever increasing Belle and Sebastian archive contains some stills from the videos, including one of Stuart Murdoch dressed up as Quentin Crisp, and some people painting lines lazily. I think he was intending to put the full things up in Quick Time video form or something. Andy, am I right or am I wrong? In the meantime, anyone who hasn't seen it can get to Andy's site via Paul's site (below) or David and Katrina's fan club site, where Mister Dean is referred to as "a lovely person". I apologise if this subject has been covered in my absence. The videos, not the loveliness. Do you like my new flat? I am now the proud owner of two new flatmates, so I think it is my duty to try and convert them to Belle and Sebastian. I will also try and get them to write messages to the list. From the looks of things we will soon have the entire population of Spain signed up. Once upon a time there were only two of us We have painted the flat very unprofessionally but I like it better like that because it is now a part of us and us a part of it. That doesn't mean to say we won't try and do it better next time, or that professional painters and decorators are all bastards, but.... And we set the step ladders up in a funny U-shape and swapped rollers every now and then. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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