Sinister: It's another love F.A.Q.

[Keith Watson]

Robbert McTaggart wrote :

>Julie rules.  Her character in "Billy
>Liar" was everything I look for in a girl, and have subsequently found.

Jesus Christ! you smoothy bastard! What's all this about, next you'll be 
attaching a signature to your emails saying something like "A big shout out 
to my little pumkiny-wumpkiny - love you honeybum!"

	Anyway, the question about Paul Gambaccini was sensible I thought, I mean, 
it's not in the same league as Bob Holness playing the Saxophone Solo on 
Baker Street, and Virginia Bottomley having the world's largest collection 
of Wah-Wah pedals is it? I looked up Mr.Gambaccini on the world-wide super 
webhighway and found most of the references to him on www.knopfler.net, and 
that was a bit of a snoozeathon (that's as opposed to the great Mr.Isaac 
"Jobby" Hayes' Grooveathon, which, despite the fact that I haven't heard 
it, I'm sure it rules).
	I'd recommend to any of the Mancunian Sinerstusians that they head on down 
to Smile where Tag's DJing, where he's going to play "Male Stripper" by Man 
2 Man meets Man Parrish, if we're lucky, he'll find time to slip in 
"Mirrors" by Sally Oldfield too - Tag, if you don't have this, I've got it, 
and I've got "Northern Lights" too.

I've nothing much to add for the moment on the cheese debate - although I 
did have some charming cheese for lunch today.

Troosers wrote:

>firstly it is widely thought that the "Terry
>and Julie" in Waterloo Sunset are Terence Stamp and Julie Christie,
>who were starring in some Polanski version of Thomas Hardy at the
>time.

Yes I thought that too, I'm sure it is true, unfortunately all I can see 
nowadays, is not a romantic vision, but Terence Stamp as General Zod in 
Superman II. Isn't it from Far from the madding crowd by the way? I'm 
allowed to be pedantic (and also perhaps wrong) here after Nick complained 
about my spelling in the FAQ.

In any case, I've updated the FAQ a bit, so here it is, actually I managed 
to downdate it my changing my computer at work, so it's not quite as up to 
date as I'd like. Well, we'll see, plus I'm awaiting on a final word as 
regards the what really happened at the Dog on Wheels recordings as I don't 
actually know, and people seem to ask this quite a lot. With any luck I 
should find out soon...




1. What is Tigermilk, where can I get a copy?

Tigermilk is the bands first album and was released around about May 1996.
It was released as part of a Stow College
course whereby Alan Rankine (of the Associates) fronts up the cash to
record a single every year, although with
Belle and Sebastian they decided that there was enough material for an
album, hence Tigermilk. There were only 1000
copies pressed and so the record is worth a lot of money now. The band have 
always mantained that Tigermilk will
be re-released at some point, and this will definitely be the case,
currently likely that about March 1999, although this may change.

2. Who is the guest singer on Lazy Line Painter Jane?

The female singer on Lazy Line Painter Jane is Monica Queen, formerly of
countryish Glasgow band Thrum. Thrum
released a record a few years ago, about 1994 I think. I can't remember
what it's called though, someone else
will have to fill me in on that one. Last I heard she was recording with
her own band which is called "Monica", or at
least that's what it was called in February 1997.

3. What is "Elvis" in A Century of Elvis.

No-one knows bar the author really, but it's probably a cat, perhaps a
tortoise, maybe actually Elvis, maybe it's
Tortelvis from Dread Zeppelin who knows, and to be quite honest, who cares.

4. Who is in the band...

Stuart Murdoch - singing guitar
Isobel Campbell - singing, cello, various
Sarah Martin - violin, weird things
Stevie Jackson - Guitar
Stuart David - Bass
Mick Cooke - Trumpet, various
Chris Geddes - keyboards
Richard Colburn - Drums

Neil Robertson has been known to play bass on Stuart David's "Spaceboy
Dream", which brings me on to...

5. What other bands have members of Belle and Sebastian involved in?

There's quite a number of things here. I'm sure it's not complete either,
it's just what I can remember off hand.

Chris Geddes :
currently V-Twin and Golden Rodeo (think that's what they're called).
Has played on Arab Strap records. V-Twin have released two singles (to my 
knowledge), Gifted, and
a 12", In the land of the Pharoes.

Mick Cooke :
Used to play with Hardbody, who released two singles on Epic (On your own,
Hazel's hob). Now plays with the Karelia
and the Amphetameanies. Has also played on releases by Mojave 3,
Ex-Cathedra. Probably others too.

Stuart Murdoch :
Played on releases by Polarbear and Arab Strap.

Richard Colburn :
Has played with Polarbear/Snowpatrol

Isobel Campbell :
Has played on Arab Strap records, also played on the Snowpatrol record.

Stuart David :
Stuart David has a side project called "Looper". There has been one single
released on Sub-pop singles club called
"Impossible things" and there is an album planned.

6. What records have been released?

Tigermilk (LP) May 1996
If you're feeling sinister (LP) November 1996
Dog on Wheels (EP) April 1997
Lazy Line Painter Jane (EP) June 1997
3,6,9 Seconds of Light (EP) October 1997
The Boy with the Arab Strap (LP) September 1998

7. What's that song at the end of the 3,6,9 seconds of light EP called.

It's called "Songs for Children".

8. What about all these unreleased songs that people keep belting on about
in order to make themselves look smart?

Pocketbook Angel
London has let me down
Hurley's having dreams

These are little demos of old songs that will as far as we know, never
ever be released as Belle and Sebastian.

Loneliness of the middle distance runner
Modern Rock song
Rhoda

People around the place have tapes of various different versions of
these, they've been kicking around for a while
and they may well be released reasonably soon, there are numerous different 
versions
of the Loneliness of the middle distance runner.

I Know where the summer goes
The Gate

These two will probably be a part of the next single

9. What sessions have they done on the radio?

The first session was around about September 1996 here Mark Lamarr sat in
for Mark and Lard at night... They played

Judy and the dream of horses
Like Dylan in the movies
The State that I am in
The stars of track and field

The second was about February 1997 on Mark + Lard's program again and
they played :

I could be dreaming
Seeing other people (slow version)
We rule the school
Modern Rock song

The third was on Steve Lamacq's evening session and they played :

Lazy Line Painter Jane
Sleep the clock around
Slow Graffiti
Seymour Stein

They did one of Stevie Jackson's tracks "Wrong Love" one night when the
evening session was live from Glasgow. Apparently this is now called "Wrong 
Girl", will it be
called "Wrong Sheep" at some point in the future?

The fourth less well known session was on Peter Easton's Radio Scotland
music program where he played :

The Loneliness of the middle distance runner
Slow Graffiti
Modern Rock song.



10. Who is Tigermilk dedicated to?

Tigermilk is dedicated to Lawrence Bradby, who's a friend of Stuart's. I 
dunno how frequently asked this question
is, but it certainly was asked frequently recently as regards a competition 
on French radio.



11. Are Belle and Sebastian twee?

No, they rock.



12. Dog on Wheels, what's the story there then? Well it's not really Belle 
and Sebastian on that EP, as you'll see if
you have a look at who played on it.

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