alright, everyone....and especially that one who wanted ideas of promotional stuff. i was driving in my car today and a little bubble rose above my head that said "eureka", because i know the best idea for promoting the next album. listen up: the first thousand copies come with a cd of tigermilk.....and only 1000 copies. no more. ever. that way we can get our hands on it, and it would still remain a rare collectable sort of thing. i think i deserve a nobel prize. now on to other business: i can't begin to name my favorite b&s moments. so here's some of my other favorite stuff: 1. when i wake up the morning and i go downstairs to get a cold glass of juice or milk or whatever, and i drink it and i can feel it coating my stomach because it's the first thing to go down there in a while. 2. going over a little dip in the road and you can feel your stomach rise like you're on a rollercoaster. 3. when it's raining and the sun's still shining bright. i love that. 4. when my philosophy professor gets all heated up and starts freely using the adjective "fucking". and sometimes he'll say "jesus christ" as an expression and you can see the ears melting off the holy rollers in the front of the class. there's more. but not now. i gotta pace myself. i do have one b&s question though, and i'll try to ask it delicately as possible. does the term "on the rag" mean the same thing in scotland as it does here in america? here, it's a crude term for saying a given girl is going through "that time of the month". i'm just curious for no particualr reason. oh and one more question...is stuart a very religious man? i read that thing where he went to church, and i've read a couple of other things, or is he just fascinated with the idea of religion? curious again for no particular reason. bye. brad ********************************************* that smile on your face i tried to erase that smile on your face but a kiss was not the answer a drunken kiss was not the answer (bill callahan) ********************************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
alright, everyone....and especially that one who wanted ideas of promotional stuff. i was driving in my car today and a little bubble rose above my head that said "eureka", because i know the best idea for promoting the next album. listen up: the first thousand copies come with a cd of tigermilk.....and only 1000 copies. no more. ever. that way we can get our hands on it, and it would still remain a rare collectable sort of thing. i think i deserve a nobel prize.
Giving Tigermilk away sounds good, but make it more than 1000 copies. Firstly so that more people can hear it; but also, surely the whole idea of promotional things is to help get the album in the charts? 1000 copies that would propbably have sold anyway isn't going to do any good. You need enough with the free Tigermilk for some to be available to people who wouldn't have bought the album otherwise. As for promoting the EP, how about making shaped CDs? You can cut the outside of a CD off, and as long as you don't go far enough in to affect the recorded bit it doesn't affect it at all. If they were cut into, say, crosses, then you could have cross-shaped CD boxes as well. If you've got a CD case on the shelves in the stores that a normal CD quite clearly wouldn't fit into, people are bound to be curious and want to know more... Also, after the "festival" that was attempted at midsummer, how about a special event on the shortest day of the year? Free outdoor gigs in several locations (they would have to be reasonably close together - say around the South East of England, given the number of potential customers round there, and the fact that the post-Christmas gigs are in Manchester). The band would do a gig in one place, then travel to the next, and so on for all the hours of daylight. Anyone who lives nearby could just turn up on the day, and see the band for nothing; you would probably get some passers-by stopping to listen as well. And then you could have coaches travelling round so that fans could get to see all the gigs! It might get a bit cold, but it would be great publicity, especially since it would get into the bumper Christmas editions of the music press; you could even film the video for the EP during the day! Getting carried away now, Stuart G ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
superbob wrote:
incidentally, i remember back in '92 the boo radleys were supposed to re-release their first "hard to find" album, and here it is almost 1998 and no sign of it <
There's no comparison though. I'm fortunate enough to own that Boo record (_Ichabod & I_), and it doesn't hold a candle to _Everything's Alright..._and_Giant Steps_. While _Tigermilk_ is a "must-have" for everyone. Sometimes bands get better, sometimes they start great. Aadam ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Since I'm a high level security engineer for the government I can't tell you where I live, exactly what I do, or how old I am; but I can tell you that I dated Stuart's Mom (both of them). I have deyermined that B&S are not a security risk, and can visit the US whenever they wish _as long as they visit Chicago_ superbob wrote:
what's everyone's claim to fame? I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you.
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superbob wrote:
i know something we can do that will get on some people's nerves and take up a lot of mail space. it's kinda similiar to the stats thing. what's everyone's claim to fame?
i'll start. 1.) in 1992 i had dinner in burger king with martin and rob and sice from boo radleys. i ended up hanging out with them all night and woke up in a stupor on the tour bus at five in the morning not quite remembering how i got there.
My wife's boss is mates with the other one out of the Boo Radleys, Tim, the one who looks like Lurch (I think). I only found this out last night, prompting me to dust off my Giant Steps tape. It's better than I remembered it, especially Leaves and Sand.
2.) i snuck onto the band GENE's tour bus a couple years back (again, in a drunken stupor) and began telling them they'll never be as good as the smiths. the singer was rolling a big fat doobie and the guitar player was giving an interview to one of my friends from a rival radio station. needless to say i was kicked off the bus.
My mate shook hands with Lou Barlow through the van window. When he was a Dinosaur. I once saw Terry Scott (of Curlywurlyfame) eating an ice cream in Bournemouth. I think he was pissed. I once saw Rodney Bewes (of Whtever Happened to the Likely Lads? fame) in the pub. I was quite embarrassingly excited, because I love him dearly. It was the day of the big Mandela concert. I followed the fat one out of REM around San Sebastian. He stopped in all the cake shop windows (honest). Rock'n'roll. I once nearly ran over Valeri Karpin, a very good footballer. It would have put paid to his multi-million peseta move to Valencia. I have seen Worzel Gummidge in real life. The song "Cookie Jar" by Fuzzy Haskins was written for me.
3.) i got a picture of me shaking hands with david j (he of bauhaus and love and rockets).
I've had my picture taken with Barry Sheene, former world motor-cycling champion. Around about the same time as Showaddywaddy were hot news.
4.)and, pertaining to belle and sebastian in high school, in french class, the teacher re-named me sebastian, and thus i was called sebastian for two years by everyone in the school.
There's no answer to that one.
i was born on elvis' birthday (jan. 8)
Kylie's. Or the day before. Same year and everything. She's got more money than me though. Shocking, isn't it?
that's it for me. -brad
And me. But I'll be back when I can think of some more. Unless this thread is banned for its complete lack of relevance. 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Peter Miller and/or Arantxa Ubieta wrote:
superbob wrote:
what's everyone's claim to fame?
i'll start.
I once saw Terry Scott (of Curlywurlyfame) eating an ice cream in Bournemouth. I think he was pissed.
OK. 1. I once had a video camera pointed at me in some football stadium in Spain next to Johan Cruyff - I felt such an arse as I was dressed in an identical striped shirt to my two brothers (younger and older, now leading executives in Ford and Mitsubishi respectively). I think we were supposed to look "cute" and were told we were going on Dutch television. I didn't know and don't know anything about football so I probably even spelled his name wrong. 2. I got Tom O'Connor's autograph in Upton Village on the Wirral when I was 8. He was opening a record shop. 3. My gay buddhist friend in Newcastle lives next door to someone from The Bill. We nicked a twig from her garden. 4. My girlfriend Linda saw Robin Cook with his wife in the Loon Fung restaurant in Edinburgh. He didn't look very happy apparently. 5. I know Peter Miller. 6. I had a chat with Patrick Moore in an observatory in La Palma, in the Canaries. He called me "young chap" and "my boy" a lot. I was about 24. 7. In a pub in Dublin last year Linda and I saw Father Ted run in, clutching a mobile phone, look round in a panic and run out. This 30 minutes after Lucian from The Liver Birds had sat drinking at the bar. Now for goodness sake let's dispense with these irrelevancies and get on with the list. Sniff. Paul mailto:owner-sinister@majordomo.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Mitchell wrote:
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Peter Miller and/or Arantxa Ubieta wrote:
superbob wrote:
what's everyone's claim to fame?
i'll start.
I once saw Terry Scott (of Curlywurlyfame) eating an ice cream in Bournemouth. I think he was pissed.
OK.
1. I once had a video camera pointed at me in some football stadium in Spain next to Johan Cruyff - I felt such an arse as I was dressed in an identical striped shirt to my two brothers (younger and older, now leading executives in Ford and Mitsubishi respectively). I think we were supposed to look "cute" and were told we were going on Dutch television. I didn't know and don't know anything about football so I probably even spelled his name wrong.
I'm quite jealous. Johann Cruyff is one of my most admired people in the world. I have seen him in the flesh, but at a distance. Splendid fellow. I shouted "Big fat Ron!" at Ronald Koeman. Fortunately he took no notice.
2. I got Tom O'Connor's autograph in Upton Village on the Wirral when I was 8. He was opening a record shop.
Did they have Tigermilk?
3. My gay buddhist friend in Newcastle lives next door to someone from The Bill. We nicked a twig from her garden.
Is gaeity allowed in Buddhism?
4. My girlfriend Linda saw Robin Cook with his wife in the Loon Fung restaurant in Edinburgh. He didn't look very happy apparently.
I saw him sitting on the Glasgow-Edinburgh train once. First class, the traitor. He was busy with some papers.
5. I know Peter Miller.
He's a bastard, isn't he?
6. I had a chat with Patrick Moore in an observatory in La Palma, in the Canaries. He called me "young chap" and "my boy" a lot. I was about 24.
I bet he'd like B&S, being a xylophone whizz. I'm quite jealous of this one too. I once met Eddie Waring's next-door neighbours. A very nice elderly couple.
7. In a pub in Dublin last year Linda and I saw Father Ted run in, clutching a mobile phone, look round in a panic and run out. This 30 minutes after Lucian from The Liver Birds had sat drinking at the bar.
It never rains but it pours. Is that the curly haired bloke, or am I dreaming?
Now for goodness sake let's dispense with these irrelevancies and get on with the list.
Whoops! It's too late now. If anyone else likes this sort of thing, there's a very good - erm - thingy on the When Saturday Comes website, called Ohmygodit'swhatsisname or something similar. I'm on it twice, but the David Icke one (yes, I've seen him too!) doesn't work properly. Your Cruyff tale would be a welcome addition, Paul. I don't know the URL offhand, but I can look it up. It's second only to Sweary Mary's Swearbox for web-based fun'n'frolics.
Sniff.
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bradford wrote:
i do believe that there are a lot of people on this list making up shit as they go along. -brad
No way mate, this is all scientifically proven fact! Lemur lovers should "point their browser" to (or at): http://www.reepham.demon.co.uk/ Dedicated lemur researchers should then follow some of the lemur links to get to the really meaty information. If you are bitten by the bug, you can investigate the equally fascinating world of Madagascan vegetation. Apparently lemurs are less advanced than monkeys, but that doesn't mean they stopped evolving, it just means they evolved in different ways....which brings us back to B&S! They didn't stop evolving when the Go-Betweens left Postcard, they just evolved in different ways to say...(desperately tries to think of something modern) Bently Rhythm Ace. 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, 21 Nov 97 14:40:08 PST, "bradford" <parachute@earthlink.net> said: << the gothic archies have an album coming out on merge. it was supposed to be released last week, but got pushed back. they have an e.p. out on hello records that is near impossible to find. >> AJAX have the ep. http://www.ajaxrecords.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the TRAUMATONE/Great Northern Electrics/Bacchanalian Revel homepage: http://www.geocities.com/~greatnorthern/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
this is a quiet list today. if people don't start writing in soon, i might actually have to start doing homework instead of messing around with this computer. anyone...anyone? laurel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, bradford wrote:
here's one i heard on conan o'brien the other day.
http://www.liszt.com/cgi-bin/liszt.cgi?word=joke&junk=s Come on peeps, I know we're suffering from a bit of a B&S vacuum (soon to be filled, I can assure you..) but let's keep just very vaguely on topic. There's lots of other mailing lists around... and there's 380 people listening to every word we breathe so... well you know. Oh and please don't take this as a direct criticism of anyone - it's just um.. a gentle nudge. P mailto:owner-sinister@majordomo.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
bradford wrote:
any thoughts on the connection between peanuts and b&s ?
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I've found that the opening bars to the album version of "Seeing Other People" are rather reminiscent of Schroeder's rollicking piano playing. Anyone agree? ta, Amanda ------------------------ Amanda Bergman Northwestern University a-bergman@nwu.edu "I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read." --Wilco ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Amanda Bergman wrote:
I've found that the opening bars to the album version of "Seeing Other People" are rather reminiscent of Schroeder's rollicking piano playing. Anyone agree?
yah, like when i said the same thing in july while we were playing frisbee unsucessfully at the park... :) i don't really have time to write, i'm currently procrastinating... i haven't read email since wednesday morning... must write papers... -ned =============================================== -nednorland nnorland@eden.rutgers.edu http://members.tripod.com/~nnorland/index.html julie christie the rumours are true-yo la tengo =============================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
bradford wrote:
plus the beginning of seeing other people sounds like the vince guaraldi trio.
any thoughts on the connection between peanuts and b&s ? -brad
Spot on. Since I've been on the list, you are the 2nd person to mention the Peanuts connection. While browsing my 'The Rolling Stone album guide', I came across Vince Guaraldi. When it mentioned that it was he who wrote the piano-based jazz soundtracks for the Peanuts in the 60s, memories came flooding back of watching Charlie Brown cartoons on weekday mornings during the Summer holidays. It was the music that had a lasting impression on me, that Summery, mellow, laid-back piano supplemented with simple, but elegant drum and bass (the jazz variety, of course). Snoopy in his shades was, for me aged 11, the epitome of ultra-beatnik, jazz-coolness, hip-swinging daddy-o standing out like a beacon in squaresville. Of course, Guraldi's music helped to consolidate that pole position. A few days later, I was the owner of "A boy called Charlie Brown - music from the tv special" by The Vincent Guraldi Trio. The music was as good, if not better, than my memory recalled from my childhood. This is an excellent jazz album and all homes should have one. The jazz snobs usually turn their noses at Vince, because he wrote and played, shock-horror, melodic, memorable, recognizable tunes that the public enjoyed. Give me an enjoyable, uplifting lp over a challenging, experimental, "hmmm-strokey-strokey-chin-chin" effort any day. A few months later, I was browsing in HMV Reading one Sunday and Vince Guraldi came on the stereo playing the most gorgeous piano intro. So I thought until Lou Reed began to sing about his confused adolescence and sexual experimentation. This turned out to be my first ever encounter with Belle and Sebastian and "seeing other people". I bought the cd and ,ahem, never looked back. If you are interested in sampling Vince Guraldi, visit your local HMV and search for the above cd in the jazz section. Then ask an assistant that you would like to listen to the album and request track 1 (can't remember the name) and "Linus and Lucy" (track 6, I think). You will be captivated and will walk away with the album. Don't bother with Virgin, they've never heard of Vince and their assistants are truly incompetent in operating the computer database. Mussadiq ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
i've always thought the intro to seeing other people sounded like vince, and i've had numerous other people say so as well. just to substantiate the b&s/peanuts connection. ;) laurel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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The Pooh Sticks on Cheree records if my memory doesn't fail me Nicholas bradford wrote:
hey. listen up. i gots a question to ask of, well, whoever knows the answer. a friend made me a tape of some stuff and there was these two songs on it and when i asked him who it was he said he didn't know and that someone taped it for him without telling him. it sounded english. and pop. mid 80's maybe.
one of kept saying: "i know someone who knows someone who knows alan mcgee quite well"
and the other was talking of how he had everything by a certain band "on tape".
who can enlighten me on who this is and if they're any good?
-brad
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Aadam <curator-House Of Precarious Stacks> -
Amanda Bergman -
Honey -
Laurel Girvan -
Mike Newman -
Mussadiq Ahmed -
Ned Norland -
Nicholas Ioannidis -
Paul Mitchell -
Peter Miller and/or Arantxa Ubieta -
Stuart Gardiner -
superbob -
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