Sinister: last week's nme rant at loosing footie Vs sinister (the pasty-faced vegan geeks)

[Jim Taylor]

for anyone that hasn't see it (oh yeah, and that gives a shit)
- from NME dated 29/4/00:

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"BANGING ON ABOUT....  Not being a poor loser, no!

The full truth about All Tomorrow's Parties has yet to be told. The real 
excitement wasn't focused on the stage but on the football pitch.

OK, picture the scene: after destroying Radio 1 (EightFUCKINGnil!), NME FC 
proceeded to chew its way through various loser indie band teams like a 
drug-crazed combine harvester ploughing its merry fume-spewing way through a 
field of ripe corn. Yeah! Mashing up  the bodies of the skulking little 
bunny rabbits and voles and shit BIG TIME!
      And then - FINALS! We had only one team to beat - the pasty-faced 
vegan geeks representing The Sinister List (a semi-official Belle & 
Sebastian web page). I mean, how hard could it be!?
      Pow! Smash! Krak! Wham! We peppered the B&S goal with shots aplenty 
but WE COULD NOT SCORE! And then the indie kids made a tactical 
substitution. They brought on Stuart Murdoch! From Belle & Sebastian! And he 
was BRILLIANT! And we LOST! But he wouldn't give us a post-match interview, 
of course, beacuse Belle & Sebastian don't talk to the evil, corporate 
cock-waggling capitalist music press.
      And apparently Stuart balked when he first realised that it was US he 
was playing against. Oh no, man! Like how does this effect my 'integrity', 
maaaaaan!?
      Which leaves one question unanswered: what make of boots was Stuart 
wearing? Were they NIKE - which probably means that they were put together 
by Third-World wage slaves? Or were they ADIDAS or REEBOK? Have you checked 
out THEIR working conditions, Staurt? Have you read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' 
book? Have you, huh?
     Your press office was unable to either confirm or deny that you were 
wearing evil coporate cock-waggling capitalist boots, Stu, so we'll have to 
give you the benefit of the doubt. So long as your play barefoot next time, 
deal? Or, alternatively you could drop all the pathetic, ideologically 
bankrupt hippy posturing, get Belle & Sebastian involved in some REAL 
politics and then communicate your ideals to a mass audience via these 
pages. Like ADF or Rage Against The Machine or Chumbawumba or Primal Scream. 
If you felt like that, like, wouldn't damage your, uh, 'integrity' too much, 
maaaaan!

Steven Wells"

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well lots of things crossed my mind whilst i typed that. like i could be 
down the pub by now. i won't go on, though thought it worth pointing out how 
NME did recently report Murdoch/B&S taking a stance on Section 28, and 
speaking at a Scottish Socialist Party conference.


just looked at

http://www.missprint.org/sinister/picnics/FC-SlotJockey.html

sorry 'bout that..... think maybe stevie T said there were other photos??
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