Sinister: RE:sinister: Philly

Paige Rosella prosella at xxx.com
Sat Sep 5 14:51:53 BST 1998


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Can anyone give me information on how to purchase tickets for the Philadelphia, PA show at the Troc?  Feel free to reply privately if you like.
Thanks,
Paige
Prosella at grovereference.com


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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 98 20:47:10 GMT
From: susannah <susannah at xxx.net>
Subject: Sinister: TIME OUT review

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I've never done an informative sensible post before so here goes:

Time Out  Sept 2-9 issue;-

'We'll call it a transitional album, if only for the fact that Stuart Murdoch
doesn't hog all the songwriting credits. This, of course, can only be a good
thing. The more different members compete to create something worthy of an
already formidable brand name, the better the music gets.
For evidence, look no further than 'Is it Wicked Not To Care?' which rubs
shoulders with the best of B&S's canon. It was written by the violinist (sic)
Isobel- presumably for inclusion between  The Velvet Underground's ' I'll Be
Your Mirror' and 'The Happiest Girl In The World' by fellow Glaswegians Biff
Bang Pow! on a C90 labelled 'vulnerable'.
Stevie the guitarist has chipped in with a couple too: a plaintive ode to New
York fanzine 'Chickfactor'; and 'Seymour Stein', seemingly about blowing out
dinner with a US record company mogul. Really though, its a song about
perspective, plain and simple, whose expansive melancholia barely prepares you
for Stuart David's ensuing contibution. Replace Jim Morrison with a Scottish boy
and Augustus Pablo on melodica and lo! - The Doors' LA Woman' turns into 'A
Space Boy Dream'!
And among all this - perhaps because of the new colours surrounding it - Stuart
Murdoch's music glows ever brighter: the beat-boogie of the title track; and
'Simple Things', whose concise elegance tips the pendulum more towards
quintessential than typical. So many ace songwriters. Just one band. Shouldn't
someone call the Monopolies and Mergers Commision?


Blinder.
susannnah.
xxx


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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:32:42 -0800
From: Ian Connelly <ian at xxx.com>
Subject: Sinister: poor salon review of tbwtas

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is it wicked to make so many factual errors? probably.
the tenor of the review is another story, i suppose.
~ ian
- ----->

Belle and Sebastian THE BOY WITH THE ARAB STRAP | MATADOR

BY CHRIS LEHMAN | "If You're Feeling Sinister," the de facto debut
offering from Scottish Wunderkinder Belle and Sebastian, was a bracing
but exhilarating primer in long-neglected pop fundamentals. Unassuming
front man Stuart Murdoch delivered closely observed, sly and morose
songs; the rest of the band supplied spare but hypnotically tuneful
backing. It was the kind of seamless folk-inflected pop that the word
"winsome" was invented to describe.

Now, of course, the eminently justified critical embrace of "If You're
Feeling Sinister" casts a long and almost certainly unfair shadow on the
band's new disc, "The Boy With the Arab Strap." And just as
understandably, the new disc finds the band in a restless, experimental
mood. The short opening character study, "It Could Have Been a Brilliant
Career," segues briskly into the insistent, synth-heavy rhythms of
"Sleeping the Clock Around," only to lurch back to folkie introspection
in a listless ode to clotted affect, "Is It Wicked Not to Care?"

But it's also around here that the listener starts getting suspicious:
The tag line of the song's outro chorus is "Would you love me till I'm
dead?" a direct lift from the outro chorus of "Northern Sky," by the
ethereal '70s folkie Nick Drake, one of Belle and Sebastian's most
frequently cited musical ancestors. It seems that Murdoch and company
are starting to tire of their own sense of youthful self-discovery and
have set about indulging in the postmodern game of cataloging
influences.

Indeed, many of the new disc's songs seem like little more than
involuted studies in pop allusion: The supremely ill-advised venture
into Glaswegian trip-hop, "Spaceboy Dream," for example, sounds like a
shotgun wedding between John Cale and A Tribe Called Quest. "Seymour
Stein," a labored depiction of an uncool record company executive,
sounds like Love's Arthur Lee on a particularly smug day. Even the more
musically robust and interesting tracks, such as "The Roller Coaster
Ride" and "Dirty Dream #2," don't stir themselves lyrically to address
anything more than an assortment of ill-defined "troubles" and the
band's own chronic sense of aimlessness.

You certainly don't want to give up on a band as promising and as
abundantly gifted as Belle and Sebastian. But too much of "The Boy With
the Arab Strap" defies you to do just that.



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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:35:29 -0800
From: Ian Connelly <ian at xxx.com>
Subject: Sinister: salon: attribution

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salon magazine is located at
www.salonmagazine.com

this particular review was at:
http://www.salonmagazine.com/ent/music/reviews/1998/09/02review.html#belle

sorry for the multiple posts and copyright violations!
ian



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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 14:42:58 PDT
From: "Paul Francke" <sarahsheridan at xxx.com>
Subject: Re. Sinister: chicago?

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>So I looked at the Metro website and nothing lists for the Chicago 
>show.  I called ticketmaster with no luck.  Oct 25, 26, 27?  I've > 
heard it all on this list!  Does anyone really truly know????

dave was right, as the metro webpage now lists the show for monday 
10/26. yay!

paul

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:51:31 -0700 
From: Tara Widmer <TWidmer at xxx.com>
Subject: Sinister: B&S reviews, SF party and oh so much MORE!

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well, to be honest the more negative reviews of "TBWTAS" are kind of a
refreshing change.  If *every* article gave it five stars and gushed about
how heartbreakingly beautiful every single song was I think it *could* be a
big let-down to people like me who haven't heard it.  
Sometimes when something is SO hyped and you're killing yourself in
anticipation of it, that no matter how wonderful it is when it finally
happens, it can't possibly live up to the expectations you've set. can
anybody back me up on this??
*****
Remember that Bay Area listening party that was cancelled?? In order to
further complicate matters, Matador finally contacted me today (the
reasoning being better late than never, I suppose?) and I shall very soon
have a copy of the album in my possession.  Therefore, i implore *anyone*
who is still interested in a Labor Day get-together to contact me ASAP.  
E-mail: Twidmer at xil.com
Call me at work: (415) 477-8766 leave a message if no answer.
********
Finally, I should know better than to tell you this (as it will severely
diminish this wee kitten's chance of getting one) but I spoke with a guy at
Mod Lang record shop in Berkeley & he said that they are trying to obtain
posters to give away with the purchase of "TBWTAS". However, the record
company hasn't answered them either way, so they don't know for sure yet. He
also said there is some problem they are having with getting the vinyl
version of TBWTAS and it probably won't be available on Tues.

tata,
tara, that wee kitten

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:49:44 +0100
From: "Chris Leonard" <calnd at xxx.uk>
Subject: Sinister: Monday And Tuesdays sets to be sure

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You see, I wrote them down for my competition.  Enjoy!  If you entered, why
not work out how many points you got for yourself, and see if you got it
right next week!

See some of you scary lot tomorrow, 
c

===============
Mondays set

1.	Beautiful
2.	Simple Things 	
3.         Mayfly
4.	Is It Wicked not to care
5. 	A Century Of Fakers
6.	A Summer Wasting	
7.	Wrong Love			
8.	Seeing Other People	
9. 	The Boy With the Rabbit Strap
10. 	Spaceboy Dream
11. 	Get Me Away...
12. 	I Don't Love anyone
13.	The Boy Done Wrong Again
14.	Judy And The Dream Of Horses


Tuesdays Set:


1.	Dog On Wheels
2.	Dirty Dream #2
3.	The loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner
4.	The Gate
5.	The State I am in	
6.	Lazy Line Painter Jane
7.	Seymour Stein
8.	It Could Have been A brilliant Career
9.	She's Losing it
10.	Slow Graffiti
11.	Chickfactor
12.	Belle And Sebastian
13.	Photo Jenny
14.       The Rollercoaster Ride



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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 22:55:25 +0100
From: "Chris Leonard" <calnd at xxx.uk>
Subject: Sinister: Competition......background

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Sawaddee!

Please forgive my delay in getting back to you on competition progress, but
I've not been here I've been on holiday in Glencoe with miss julia where
the little midges ate me silly.  Little fuckers. 

Anyway, the competition.  Some statistics before I start:

- - 22 people entered the competition.  Which made it totally worthwhile
writing a computer system to work the scores out.  Cheers.

- -  3 were ladies.

And so......
Here's what everyone guessed.  Spot the Dafties!   I will post results next
thursday, when I'm back..........

Adrian Evans
	The State I Am In
	Expectations
	Judy And The Dream
 	She's Losing It
	Modern Rock Song
Andrew Grant
	Lazy Line Painter
 	The State I Am In
	Photo Jenny
	She's Losing It
	Slow Graffiti
Calumn Shearer
	The Stars Of Track
 	We Rule The School
	Belle And Sebastian
	Le Pastie De La
	The State I Am In
Declan McGurk
	Le Pastie De La
 	A Century Of Fakers
	Dog On Wheels
	She's Losing It
	The State I Am In
Derek Martin
	It Could Have Been A
	You're Just A Baby
	My Wandering Days 
	She's Losing It
	Belle And Sebastian
da duke	
            It Could Have Be
	Slow Graffiti
	My Wandering Days
 	London Has Let Me 
            Hurley's Having 
FunkySeb
	The Boy With The
 	The State I Am In
	Slow Graffiti
	Pocketbook Angel
	London Has Let Me 
John Johnstone
	The Loneliness Of A
 	The State I Am In
	Expectations
	Le Pastie De La
 	Slow Graffiti
Joss Moorkens
	Mary Jo
	Seeing Other People
	The Loneliness Of A
 	We Rule The School	
	I Don't Love Anyone
Miss Julia
	Dirty Dream #2
	I Could Be Dreaming
	I Don't Love Anyone
	Le Pastie De La
 	My Wandering Days 
kevan cooke
	Le Pastie De La
 	The State I Am In
	You Made Me Forget
 	Put The Book Back 
	Slow Graffiti
Linda 'String Band' Kerr
	The State I Am In
	She's Losing It
	Mary Jo
	Spaceboy Dream
	You Made Me Forget 
matt Bcapirigi
	Get Me Away From
 	Put The Book Back
 	She's Losing It
	Le Pastie De La
 	TheState I Am In
Oooooooon 
	Photo Jenny
	The State I Am In
	I Could Be Dreaming
	Judy And The Dream
 	Put The Book Back 
paul 'meat lightbulb' mitchell
	Belle And Sebastian
	Mary Jo
	We Rule The School
	You Made Me Forget
 	Seeing Other People
peter larsson
	Dog On Wheels
	The State I Am In
	Get Me Away From 
	Mary Jo
	She's Losing It
Peter Miller
	Hurley's Having
 	Slow Graffiti
	Is It Wicked Not To
 	London Has Let Me
 	My Wandering Days 
R.O. Jenkin
	She's Losing It
	Le Pastie De La
 	I Don't Love Anyone
	You Made Me Forget 
	Judy And The Dream 
Rod Begbie
	Lazy Line Painter
 	Modern Rock Song
	My Wandering Days
 	Photo Jenny
	She's Losing It
ronan barrett
	The State I Am In
	Modern Rock Song
	Le Pastie De La
 	Slow Graffiti
	She's Losing It
Steve Genge
	She's Losing It
	Judy And The Dream
 	We Rule The School
	I Don't Love Anyone
	Slow Graffiti
Tim Hopkins
	The State I Am In
	Slow Graffiti
	Modern Rock Song
	Le Pastie De La
 	Mary Jo


Ho ho ho.  Some howlers there, eh?





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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:08:55 -0700
From: "Seamus Campbell" <conform at xxx.com>
Subject: FW: Sinister: mmuuu

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Vanessa Figueras [SMTP:vanessa.figueras at xxx.se]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 03, 1998 11:12 AM
> To:	Laurel Girvan
> Cc:	sinister at majordomo.net; poetryplace2
> Subject:	Re: Sinister: mmuuu
> 
> 
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> 
> isn't he the director of "Clockwork Orange" 
> 
> yes.  also full metal jacket, 2001: a space oddessy, the shining, dr
> strangelove, and lolita.  
> 
> and "Acopalypso Now"?
> 
> nope.  francis ford coppola. 
> 
> Laurel Girvan wrote:
> 
> >       *---*      HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES    *---*
> >
> >      how many times are we going to get trousie poo's review posted?
> or
> >      hasn't it been the same one and i just haven't noticed...
> >
> >      anyway, who's stanley kubrick?
> >
> >      love you all you hoppity kiddies, even the nasty putrid brit
> >      show-goers (no bitterness here, of course).
> >
> >      laurel
> >      xxxxxx
> >
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 18:09:40 EDT
From: Funkyseb at xxx.com
Subject: Sinister: I'm only lucid when I'm riding...well, trains actually

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       I wasn't going to post today, but then I thought, aw, shucks, all you
Connex South Eastern fans want to know about my day.
       Well alright then, I'll tell you.<sits down and makes ooohh, that's
better noises like an old man sipping a cup of tea>
        As I staggered into the booking hall, a man in a very smart cepe tried
to sweep me up. 'sorry' I said though it wasn't my fault, 'you'll have to go
away' he said 'we're tidying this area up.'
So I skulked off to the platforms, and lo! there were a host of beautiful
people in lovely blue and yellow suits, and happy cheery cockney types in
pristine day-glo boiler suits all busying around and doing their jobs properly
like the plastic people you get moulded to your Hornby train set. And they
herded the slightly scuffed real people to the very end of the platform. 'Stay
here' they said, 'there's a special train coming it's not for you keep away
from it. Important people are coming' 
And as I looked around the huddle, I saw a beautiful girl looking wistfully at
the Travellers Fare. And I saw that she was the absolute spit of Isobel.
We all got on our dirty old train, and I decided that it surely was Isobel,
taking a day off from her hectic P!O!O! star life, and enjoying a recreational
trip to Royal Tunbridge Wells. And why not? We have an animatronic Beau Nash,
and T!W!O! branches of Boots, the chemist. 
So I hummed 'Is it wicked not to care', allowing the lovely tune to waft
around the carriage, in an attempt at subtle communication. If she harmonised,
I'd know it was fate! 
Sadly as I'd just come out of the pub the song turned into a hugest BURRP!
known to man, and the none too subtle aroma of stale bitter filled the
suddenly much smaller compartment.
Isobel looked at me as if I was Albert Steptoe and the moment was lost, for
ever.

I also dreamt that Stuart was running over all the flowers in the world in his
great big bus. I rang the bell, but he carried on until every one was
flattened. 
Right, I'm sure I've tried your patience enough by now.
Not long to go now, kids
love, seb

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 18:26:34 -0500
From: "Suzanne Schroeder" <suzsch at xxx.net>
Subject: Sinister: boston tix?

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Where are they on sale at, if anywhere?

s.s.

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 19:21:40 EDT
From: OLDSCHREC at xxx.com
Subject: Sinister: new CD in stock

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No, I'm not mental and I know the label reads this.  We have the new CD (did I
mention just 2 copies) since we are a small ma & pa record store.  Labor Day
weekend a few years back I bought the 4 CD The Who -> box set the Friday
before Labor Day at a major store (Best Buy) when it wasn't due to be released
to the Tuesday after the holiday.  It happens sometimes cuz holiday shipments
get shipped early by distributors.   It's not like anyone goes and advertises
it.   You didn't hear the information from me.   We don't do any advertising
for our small ma & pa record store. I didn't offer them for sale to anyone
here.   Did I mention the name of the store?  No, I didn't, did I?

Pete

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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 19:21:47 -0400
From: blink at xxx.net
Subject: Sinister: my feet are sore,but i'm not down no

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dear bears,

those reviews are too lovely,all this sinister stuff...that's it,i must
go to the nyc picnic...

> No, it's francis Ford coppola that has directed "Apocalypse now".
> Kubrik has directed "Clockwork orange", "Doctor Strangelove", "Full
> metal jacket", "Shining" and many more.
> French kisses to everyone
> Julien
 
Lolita as well,yes?

as you all had gorgeous days on tuesday i imagine,well mine was not as
perfect we shall say..( oh why is hitchhiking illegal!!).is that Murdoch
Murder One still availible? oh have i got a job for him!!

monsieur bobby chariot,you're an odd little monkey,but you make me laugh
in this bitter state.

everything will be fine,everything will be fine
xoxo genevieve

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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 98 00:19:30 GMT
From: Heinitz <heinitz at xxx.net>
Subject: Sinister: mouse/leeds

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hello everybody,
just to say, i think i will be at the pre gig gathering tomorrow in leeds,
although i am slightly worried about attempting to gather and then being too shy
to say anything to anybody, as i am wont to do. anyway, whether i gather
successfully or not, i will enjoy the gig immensely, i am sure, as i am very
excited about it. 
as for the mouse, well, i haven't seen him since i returned him to his freedom,
but i don't often walk up to where we released him. it was quite near an old
people's home, so if the brief domesticity had a permanent effect on him he
could have taken up residency there, and might be nibbling at old people as we
speak. or rather, as i type. or as you read, whatever.
it isn't that i'm not sentimental (i am, hopelessly so), but i have plenty of
animals to worry about without the mouse. i regard myself in a kind of fostering
role, rather than an adopting role, with that one. a sort of
pippa-off-home-and-away character, only without the enormous skirts.
leeds again - i am a short, dark person, and my friend is a tall curly haired
person of the male gender. if you see us, and feel inclined, say hello.
love, 
the girl with the mouse (abi, who can hardly contain her excitement)
xxx



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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 20:49:00 EDT
From: MWaggner at xxx.com
Subject: Re: Sinister: mmuuu

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In a message dated 98-09-03 14:13:29 EDT, you write:

>    *---*      HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES    *---*
>  
>  isn't he the director of "Clockwork Orange" and "Acopalypso Now"?
>  
>  Laurel Girvan wrote:


"Clockwork Orange" and "2001: A Space Odyssey."  "Apocalypse Now" was Francis
Ford Coppola, no?    The latter 2 are among my most favorite films.

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:05:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: dave cohen <lapis at xxx.edu>
Subject: Re. Sinister: chicago? (fwd)

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> 
> 
> >So I looked at the Metro website and nothing lists for the Chicago 
> >show.  I called ticketmaster with no luck.  Oct 25, 26, 27?  I've > 
> heard it all on this list!  Does anyone really truly know????
> 
> dave was right, as the metro webpage now lists the show for monday 
> 10/26. yay!
> 
> paul

	an showing that karma is still a working force
	just picked up my tickets for the philly gig
	10/23 at the troc
	
	thanks matthew!

	just goes to show what subbing to this list can do

	unglau-bloody-blich,

	--dave

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:39:05 EDT
From: HoleRole at xxx.com
Subject: Sinister: It's about time.....

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Hello Folks,

	I've been a member of this list long enough. It's about time I started
participating in all the conversation. My name is Aaron and I live in
Brooklyn, New York. I have every intention of meeting as many of you as I can
at the concert on the 1st of November and at the picnic, which I hope to
attend. 
	At this point I will proceed to bore those of you still reading with the
details of my day (yes, there is some B&S content).
	After seeing There's Something About Mary for the second time I went back to
my friend Maurice's house. I stayed there for dinner since my own family were
all out for various reasons. Maurice is one of the many people who I am trying
to turn on to Belle & Sebastion. I had brought my copy of Dog on Wheels over
to his house and he put it on just as his mother half asked half forced me to
help prepare dinner. Then a strange thing happened. Beneath the din of a
household with four children, a frazzled mother and a tired friend helping to
prepare dinner (you have all probably heard similar sounds in your own homes
at hectic moments) came the familiar sound of Stuart Murdoch ("When I was a
boy i was confounded by you....."). I'm not sure if the music transended the
hussle and bussle and brought the house up with it or the beauty of the music
was stifled by the noise but the juxtaposition was interesting.

		Glad to have a place where i can share my
observations,																				Aaron

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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:11:11 +0100 
From: Neil Dewhurst <NeilD at xxx.uk>
Subject: Sinister: Kubrick

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Er, am I massively wrong here, or has everyone forgotten or somehow
failed to see the marvellous and bizarre 2001?  Catch it on a big screen
somewhere if you can, anything else doesn't compare.

xfm, oh dear.  I haven't listened since the last song I heard one night
was something by Ocean Colour Scene, and the first the next morning was
U2's Discotechque.

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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:53:29 +0200
From: "PJMiller" <pjmiller at xxx.es>
Subject: Sinister: Runarooooooooooound NOW!

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Doctor Paul wrote:

Stuart Murdoch took us all on a two minute diversion from the
>stage about "Mike Read's Runaround" (for those not called "Peter
>Miller" it was a UK kids TV programme in the 80s).  He concluded we
>were all "too young" when we didn't respond to jokes about orange
>balls.  Linda and I coughed a little.

Not only was it a fantastic telly treat, it was also a smashing quiz book. I
bought it in WHSmiths in Canaervon/Canaerfffffon (?), for ages afterwards I
thought WHSmiths was a good shop. Just to elaborate a little on Doctor
Paul's description, Runaround was a bit like Twister, only with questions.
It was presented by Cockney Wanker from Viz. The game Twister, not the film.

on page 10 of the MM
>you'll see a "What's It All About" article about... "List Songs".
>The big lazy gits nicked it from OUR list!  There's apparently a lot
>of your own examples on there. Next week expect "What's It All
>About... Newt Mating Dances on Mike Read's Runaround".

It's not the first time we've been plundered, is it? I remember Uncle
Trousers pointing out a similar case of grand list larceny some time ago.
Let's try and throw them off the scent....

Here's another of those ironic song combinations..oh dear...I can hardly
type for tittering...the kids will love this....OH LORD, WHAT ARE YOU DOING
TO ME AND THE MAJOR? by BIG MAY-BELLE AND SEBASTIAN!!!! Oh no! I've wet
myself...

The newt tank's a fine and private place, but no kingfishers, I think, do
there embrace. Today I saw Mister Kingfisher again, and he tried to throw me
off the trail by darting under the bridge and flying upstream. Undeterred, I
followed quietly. I saw it by standing by the side of the stream in the
distance, so I stood stock still and waited. And waited. And waited..... A
few  minutes later it transpired that I had been patiently waiting for an
empty Nestea can to fly off. What a silly billy!

Thanks to Andrew for the reviews. That Melody Maker one is poo, but at least
NME were nice. I was fully expecting a lengthy vendetta from them.

Starsky and Hutch


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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:42:00 +0100
From: "Simpson, Claire E" <Claire.Simpson at xxx.uk>
Subject: Sinister: Good news and Bad

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Good Morning All!

Well the good news is I have just managed to get 2 tickets to the gig on
Monday, so I am more that a little excited. The bad news is that now
only two of the three of us get to go, so there is a very pouty man
walking round London as we speak. 

I know this is a long shot, but if anyone out there has a spare ticket,
or knows a man who has, you could potentially make my friend very happy
indeed!!

Meanwhile, have an excellent weekend thinking of TBWTAS and the show on
Monday. Huzzah!!

Claire



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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:53:46 +0000
From: Mark Iles <iles at xxx.uk>
Subject: Sinister: Leeds gig

      *---*      HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINISTER BABIES    *---*


	I'm going to the Leeds gig tonight with a friend (that's the good
news). He's coming from Derby straight after work and can't make it until
8.20 (that's the bad news). So does anyone know what time the bands are
going to be on stage (ie. what time will Elliot Smith start)? Am I going to
have to go in without him and meet him in there, or am I safe waiting that
late?

	If anyone knows, could they email me privately, as I'm on the
digest and might not get the reply in time othwerwise. Thanks.

				Mark


___________________________________________________________________________

Mark Iles,                              Tel: +44 (0113) 2065042
Imperial Cancer Research Fund,          Fax: +44 (0113) 2340183
Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory,
Ashley Wing,                            Email: iles at boreas.leeds.icnet.uk
St James's University Hospital,
Beckett Street,
Leeds,                                  "I liked it so much I bought the
LS9 7TF                                 company. Shaves as close as a blade
U.K.					or your money back."

					- The Rubaiyat of Victor Khayyam
____________________________________________________________________________



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