Sinister: true hipster-elite colors shining through

[Jeff Burke]

I know what you're saying.. but to me it sounds like they're looking at this 
more as visual art than a "studio performance" This isn't you have to wear 
cords to get into our cool show,  this is we're going after a certain visual 
theme for the program(me). And it sounds like it's at the direction of the 
studio.

It wouldn't make much sense to make a movie about world war one and have jet 
planes in it, as such it you're going for a 70's beat feel a "Bush Sucks" 
Tshirt would be out of place..

It's always good to be leery of forced conformity, but not always good to 
assume everyone's forcing it.

just my 2cents.

jb

We are hummingbirds who are just not willing to move -- "bury me with it" 
Modest Mouse


>From: Ryan Agnew <theryanagnew at xxx.com>
>Reply-To: Ryan Agnew <theryanagnew at gmail.com>
>To: sinister at missprint.org
>Subject: Sinister: true hipster-elite colors shining through
>Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:10:25 -0400
>
>My name is Ryan and I'm a sideline kicker who never ran onto the field
>before.  My comment pertains to the message from Stuart, forwarded
>yesterday by Lucy.
>
>Mick Jagger conceived and performed something like this in December
>1968 called "Rock and Roll Circus".  It was a filmed stage set to
>celebrate, Picadilly Circus style, a future era of 70's free-styled
>blues-rock.  There was a live audience and it was intended for
>television broadcast, only the Stones may have been too far ahead for
>the times on this one, as it wasn't commercially released until 1995
>on VHS and finally last year on DVD (being the era we live in, with
>bonus features and surround remixes).  It also really isn't that good,
>despite Jagger's ingenuous showmanship, and riveting appearances by
>Marianne Faithfull, The Who, and John Lennon.  I mean it's worth
>tracking down, but not as important as Scorsese's Dylan documentary
>that aired here on PBS last month.  The live audience appear carefully
>hand-picked, however I don't have information about methods used to
>screen them.
>
>Anyway, this is the first time I've heard of Belle & Sebastian sending
>out an instructional casting call to fans dictating their look and
>appearance and requesting mobile phone pictures.  Have they done this
>kind of thing before?  Has Stuart, despite the shy-to-the-press
>reputation, always been this fame and popularity-driven?
>I don't care to be too critical of this, because it's probably a smart
>maneuver in a marketing/vibe-producing kind of way, and I bet it's a
>great way to meet people.  Many bands have obviously been careful with
>their look when it comes to a television broadcast.  Did the Beatles
>or Rolling Stones ever ask their fans to have a particular look?  Was
>John Lennon really singing "All you need is... corduroy and suede"?  I
>suppose, as a fan of Belle & Sebastian's music, you can't let this
>kind of thing rub you in the wrong way.  I suppose you would enjoy
>Stuart's sense of humor, especially when he takes himself too
>seriously and tries to rule the school.
>
>Best of luck kids,
>Ryan
>
>
>--- Belle and Sebastian <mailinglist at belleandsebastian.com> wrote:
>
> > > From: Belle and Sebastian <mailinglist at xxx.com>
> > > To: "lucyalder at yahoo.com" <lucyalder at yahoo.com>
> > > Subject: Belle and Sebastian News message - Filming for BBC Glasgow TV
> > > show,
> > >  extras needed!
> > > Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:21:15 +0100
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > A little message from Stuart ...
> > >
> > > ìWe require a TV audience for filming for a BBC program which will
> > > feature the group performing a bunch of songs from the new album.  The
> > > studio audience has to dress kind of 70s but NOT glamorous 70's, I'm
> > > thinking mid-70's Oxbridge/Scumbag College students, corduroy and 
>suede,
> > > elbow patches, shades of brown and fawn, unkempt/long hair, perhaps 
>some
> > > heavy eye make-up for the girls, black rimmed specs and stripy 
>scarves.
> > > Please NO trainers, NO printed  t-shirts/logos/anything. How about the
> > > odd cloak?  You will be like extras rather than just audience in this
> > > program because the band will be filming the songs a couple of times
> > > each and you may need to be in shot and moved round a bit."
> > >
> > > The filming will be this Sunday October 23rd at the BBC studios, Queen
> > > Margaret Drive in Glasgow.  You will need to be available from roughly
> > > 7.00pm til 10.00pm.  If you're available and would like to considered
> > > for the audience, please email webcontact at banchory.net with your name,
> > > contact telephone number/s and an image of yourself, by Friday midday.
> > > If you can take the picture with your mobile phone and make it less 
>then
> > > 200kb, that would be even better!
> > >
> > > Thanks and best of luck.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Belle and Sebastian.
>+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>         +---+  Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list  +---+
>      To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe
>      send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to
>      majordomo at missprint.org.  WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister
>  +-+       "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper           +-+
>  +-+  "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+
>  +-+    "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000     +-+
>  +-+  "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000  +-+
>  +-+  "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001   +-+
>  +-+               Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa                 +-+
>  +-+               Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut!                +-+
>+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+


+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
        +---+  Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list  +---+
     To send to the list mail sinister at missprint.org. To unsubscribe
     send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to
     majordomo at missprint.org.  WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister
 +-+       "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper           +-+
 +-+  "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+
 +-+    "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000     +-+
 +-+  "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000  +-+
 +-+  "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001   +-+
 +-+               Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa                 +-+
 +-+               Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut!                +-+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+