Sinister: JuSt AnotHeR 80s FaN

Fri May 4 13:25:59 BST 2001

Hello the land of SiNiSteR! 

It's been a while...  (I haven't smiled...) and many
things have happened... 
things that I'm sure you'd like to know but I won't 
tell you anyway... mmm unless you beg... nicely... and

with the proper puppy-indie-eyes... 
Well, the sinister picnic's on this weekend... I was 
supposed to be there but alas I won't make it... First

Sinister Picnic of the YeaR... I keep reading about 
kites and other weird things like that but anyway, no 
comment... don't you know that all you need is vodka 
bottles in your handbags? 
But instead of coming to London in May, I'm coming in 
June so I can go and see the Bell(i)es in Glasgow both

nights! And then we're having a sinister picnic in 
London on the 23rd (is that right Mr Marvoloso sir?) 
June and it's at GREENWICH this time... 
Talking about Glasgow... there's been a lot of talk 
lately about this glaswegian beat combo, the Camera 
Obscura... mmm 
So, let's take things from the start... 

David Howie said: 
        My comments on Camera Obscura were 
        unjustified as well seeing that Ive 
        only heard three of their songs; as were my 
        comments on Baxendale (although 
        quite why youd want to). However, I do 
        stand by my opinion that they 
        dont sound that much like B&S (more like 
        Felt, High Llamas, Idlewild at 
        their poppiest perhaps) but that is no excuse 
        for jumping on your comments; 
Camera Obscura have been around for a few years, their
infuences vary... I'd say they're quite sixties, 
influenced by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, and 
yes, Felt too, but really High Llammas, and Idlewild??
they had two singles out, "park and ride" and "your
sound" a while ago... and they've spent the last year
or so recording an album... there are connections with

B&S though... as Stuart (don't you just hate it when 
people call him Struan? it's just so awful and bad
taste) produced the single for them, called "eighties
fan" and it's out next month, mid June or something...
its got a real sixties wall of sound feel and stuart
arranged strings for it. The B-sides are "shine like a
new pin" and "let's go bowling". I think that Mr
Murdoch is also playing accoustic guitar in "eighties
fan", but I can't say for sure...the album's out later
this year.... 
other AffiNitiEs... Richard from B&S drummed for CO 
for a year... he's actually on their second single... 

Then Mr Danny Farrell went ahead and said: 
     Camera Obscura, in my drunken state, did sound 
     like B&S not a hugely like 
     them but there was a resemblance, not in that
they 
     were scottish but because 
     they sounded very much the "twee" band. 
Not in my very worst (best) drunken state I'd say that
Camera Obscura sounded like the "twee" band... they're
not hopping around like little happy bunnies in green 
fields and they hate daisies indeed... they may sound
mellow in some songs, but that doesn't make them twee,
does it? like you wouldn't call the Clientele a twee
band, or Hopkirk and Lee, or the Montgolfier Bros,
would you? unless mellow=twee nowadays... 

Marc Bots then said: 
      Camera Obscura is an old dutch book by a guy    
     called Hildebrand. It has a number of stories in 
     it, 
     situated somewhere in the end of the 19th
century.      I had to read some parts of it for my
exams (seven      years ago already, aargh), and found
it           particulary boring. I 
     don't know if it has anything to do with the
band, 
     but at least you all may learned something today.

Yes, we learnt something today... the band didn't take

its name from monsieur Hildebrand I'm afraid, nor from

monsier Vaneguem... The name comes from the prototype 
camera, where images were inverted onto a screen... 
simple as that... 
There's a CO mailing list for those of you who may be 
interested, it's called parkandride and it's another 
missprint.org mailing list... 
For those of you who are americans and have heard 
about Camera Obscura, this is not the american camera 
obscura coz there is a band in US called that but 
believe me they're utter crap... so don't subcribe
with 
the hope of having yourselves indulged into emo
(emotional hardcore) delights... 
That's all I had to say... for now... I hope everyone 
has a smashing time at the picini! it'd be better if I

and my hotpantslollylove miss Pooky (or Genevieve to
its posh-est) were there to form the sinister girls
footy team and beat the boys up... next time... and
Pooky, I don't know if you've heard that but Ally
Cookie Cinnamon is going to be at this picnic too!!
yes, yes, I know... anyway..
take care 
Vel xxx 

PS: Praise Laura Llew!!! she sent me the best themed
parcel ever!!! knowing my fixation with lighthouses
(please no freudian wits here...) Laura Llew, when I'm
blue, you make feel like sniffing some glue... and no
matter what the neighbours say if we could find a way
and oh oh baby we will find a way... (stolen from the
mightly Ramones... R.I.P Joey Daddy O')
PpS: Joe Strummer when he was asked in an interview in
Spin magazine (crap magazine but anyway) what was the
most influencial, most important punk band in the UK,
he replied "no question about it; the Television
Personalities"... so there... I used to love Mr
Strummer... after that, I adore him...

"waR is the last possible creative act" MT "If" 
"the new creation will arise from the ruins of the old

world", IsidoR Isou (International Lettrist) 

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