September 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Grouting, day-glo buses and tootsie roll.
by babyblu＠gold.globalcafe.co.uk 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

A new, tall, elegant, rich kid wrote: > Katrina is so notoriously efficient and helpful that she was standing with > Andy Symington after the Nottingham show while Andy was djiing and Andy > mentioned that there was a lot of rubbish around left from the gig, not > meaning anything by it or anything, just making conversation. Katrina fetched > a brush immediately and started sweeping up around the numerous people dancing > > and amid the general havoc of roadies, dancers and noise. With her perfectly > knotted hankerchief round her neck she was the most perfect 50's svelte and > flustered sweeper upper ever. Can I just mention then Katrina that my bathroom grouting could do with a bit of a going over. I can't? Fair enough. Please leave Rollercoaster Ride alone, because it hurts me deeply when you speak Ill of it, I love it so. Hopefully I'll soon be driving across America in a big fuck-off day-glo bus like in The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, to see the show in Philadelphia, (with Lady Penelope following sedately behind in her luxuriant pink roller) won't that be exciting! Do any of our American cousins know if there are any tickets left for this show? And how far is Philly from NY?, I kinda hope it's a long way so'se I can live out all those Kerouac fantasies. And just where exactly can I get a tootsie roll? Oh you guys are so quaint! I love your accent!, say margarine! etc.... StayInShapeRoryxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: article dans les Inrockuptible
by Bertrand Caron 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

Yesterday, i read in the inrocks an article... In fact it was an interview of the band(B&S)... Yes you haear right... The band accepted to answer the question of a journalist... The journalist says that the interview took place in the church where they live... All the members where there... But the interview was rather short and SM didn't say much but it was rather interesting because he speaks about their way of living... If you want to know more please ask...(if so,make a cc to bcaron(a)enserg.fr because i only have the digest version of the list... Bertrand, Grenoble, France +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Trixies
by Simon Ludlam 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

Do any of you cats out their remember or know of a band from the early eighties? called Trixies Big Red Motorbike? I have 2 singles by them and I'm sure most of you would flip at their cutey coolness. Bye Bye Simon PS Arab Strap sounding better every day ################################################# Simon Ludlam Pindar plc Tel:+44 0114 2756336 EMail: s.ludlam(a)pindar.com Fax:+44 0114 2752291 URL: http://www.pindar.com ################################################# ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are released in confidence and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmaster(a)pindar.com http://www.pindar.com ********************************************************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Lavatory Inspector
by PJMiller 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

We've just had a visit from the lavatory inspector. I kid you not. He accused us of leaking inadvertently. Oh well. All of which has made me forget what I was going to say...oh yes, Keith asked if Godzooky appears in Godzilla. Yes, he bloody well does, along with about 200 brothers and sisters, all of which hatch out from their shells in Madison Square Gardens, and you don't need me to tell you the kind of havoc they could wreak out on the streets of New York. Mark Kolmar wrote: It did seem odd to me that a band which invokes such strong feelings of being the odd, sensitive kid in school would not do all-ages shows. ("Belle and Sebastian...playing songs for children") Obviously they have a decent number of fans under 19 or 18. I bet it's got more to do with promotors than the band memebers themselves. It would be a bit difficult for them to vet each venue personally when they're so far away from home. I suspect there's nothing Stuart Murdoch likes more than entertaining rooms full of squealing schoolgirls, so I'm sure he'll be just as upset as the rest of you, and might be persuaded to do an acoustic spot at your school assembley to redress the balance. The Casell Dictionary of Slang wrote: Sarah was grooving off Belle and Sebastian I'll be first in the queue for this tome, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I'll be the only one who doesn't think Sarah is lapping up an enjoyable dose of retro television. That's what my mum would think anyway. Beth wrote: "Wah wah wah..Isobelle's S sound annoy me" "wah wah wah...Stuart sings to quiet and i've got to turn up my radio"..."They sound like this band...they sound like that dead guy." I thought the thing about S sounds was going a bit too far as well, I mean, the same thing happens on the bus. As for saying what things sound like, I don't really have a problem with that, because I don't require 100% originality, which is just as welll, because it doesn't exist, when you think something sounds like nothing on earth it's usuually because you haven't heard what it sounds like. So, at least for me, it's just a bit of fun, and in no way a criticism of the band or anything like that. You've got to pick a pocket or two. McRagtag McRote Scropton is conveniently located, a matter of minutes from East Midlands International Airport. Our very own Little Peter Miller, himself a native of the area, surely spent many happy days there as a youth, playing snakes and ladders, headers and volleys, doctors and nurses and other carefree childhood pursuits. Indeed, East Mid (to its friends) airport played a formative role in my childhood, mainly as the destination of choice for ridiculously long bike rides. Headers and volleys rules. I watched Real Sociedad against Sparta Prague last night, two of my adopted teams. It was good, better than Godzilla. I don't know where Scropton is. Has it got a shop? I think that's it for now, Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Drum-machine
by Trond Høili 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

Hi! I just read a review of TBWTAS in a Norwegian mag, and the author hailed the band in all the proper ways before he stated something like: "...and the drums sounds like a drum machine.....". So I ask you folks: Drum machine??? Where's the drum machine??? Trondy +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: a point-by-point rebuttal/ multiple rubbish bonanza
by Hopkins, Tim 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

Gawd, I dunno, I live in north west Lancashire for five years, waiting for something to happen, then when I decide to leave, you lot go and make something happen. Let that be a lesson to me. Beth wrote: > And no..he's not some musical idiot...he's worked at a music magazine for 8 years... > hmmm...isn't that the definition of a musical idiot...? Anyway, Tag wrote: I like the idea of a Sinister summer holiday. We could go to Blackpool, it's famous for fresh and air and fun. Yes, and watch it all go wrong as the sinister crowd turns to nibbling disco biscuits by mistake and watches the world twist and become a savage and monstrous place for a cardie-wearer. This could be fun. Blackpool is an amazing place of a summer evening, everyone having fun, and the whole town just one wrong word away from erupting into beer-fuelled violence. Mind, if you're going to Blackpool, you might as well go to sunny Morecambe (pron: Moricambi), for that authentic run-down, as-you-stare-through-the-rain feeling. Belle and Sebastian should play at the Midland Hotel, a faded, flaking art deco marvel, looking out over the mud and grey water of Morecambe Bay, and the finest building in the North West of England. Honest. The hotel is shaped something like an apostrophe, too, so it could be educational. The following sentence requires attention to be paid to its punctuation. I, like Peter Miller (that cockered, clay-brained varlot), am attracted by the idea of a meet up in the centre of the earth. We could hold a survey at each of the levels of hell, asking how many copies of Tigermilk there were at each. Alternatively, can I suggest that we hold a meet up in Purgatory? I am reliably informed that discussions in Purgatory just now are running along the lines of 'Next autumn? *Next bloody autumn?! That's ages...'. Nick said: >On that note, how about at the next concert, putting Stuart's poser to >the test. If we were to remove our clothes, *do* you think the singer >would notice? This very thing happened *just in front* of me and Mr Edward 'Placepot' Mason (the lying, cheating underpants rustler), at Nottingham. And the band appeared not to notice at all. Northy, back from hanging around that garage *again*, wrote: >the best trax are, in my humble opinion of course, IIWNTC and TBWTAS I prefer ICBTBYW, BOTCYTLS and STFU. But that's just me. Sarah gently opined: >Micheal - Tokyo Joes? A GOOD CLUB!!! I'm sorry, are you TWELVE? That's >the worst fucking club in the north west!! It's renowned for rapists and >perverts and TRENDY DUDE HEAVEN!!! Are rape and perversion trendy in Preston then? I had guessed that that was the case... Talking of which, Paul said: >Quiz: who did the Sarah speaky bit in Dirty Dream #2 in London (clue: >it wasn't Sarah)? There's a clue in Stuart's email. Whoever gets the >answer right first gets to post something saucy and irrelevant >without me grumbling. Was it you, Honey? You incorrigible old self-publicist, you couldn't keep it to yourself, could you. A couple of people wrote: >tell me the names of unreleased Belle and Sebastian songs Does 'If Only I Had Lips, Then I Could Kiss You' count? It is, in a very real sense, a Belle and Sebastian song, although, as diligent list readers know, it was first sung by 'the coolest cold-blooded crooner on the planet'. Once again, see: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/hypermail/1998-month-02/0111.html for full details. Yaz, I demand my mars bar. That is all for now. Cheerio Tim +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: Elvis & Spaceboy Lyrics
by Brier Random 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

But certainly the Space Boy lyrics consist of only the first line, non? -----Original Message----- From: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar(a)xnet.com> To: sinister <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 6:05 PM Subject: Re: Sinister: Elvis & Spaceboy Lyrics > >Lyrics are under the B&S discography section at www.jeepster.co.uk. I had >looked around there, and B&S's own site, but didn't find the lyrics. >Thus my earlier question about the words for "Electronic Renaissance" -- >which are at the website by the way. (Which I would not have guessed -- >Jeepster have not released _Tigermilk_ after all!) > >--Mark > >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ > To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe > send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to > "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, > FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister > +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ > +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Chart positions
by Michael 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

I noticed this morning that not only is TwattyBus at number 12 but Screamadelica is in the high thirties. Does this mean that the great unwashed have finally come to their senses and are buying great albums, or was this week a particularly poor one for record sales? Does anyone know how many copies TwattyBus sold to get to those lofty heights? _________________________________________________ Michael Barrett, Broadcast R & D, Advanced Technology Division, SONY Broadcast & Professional, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 4SB, England. E-mail: Michael.Barrett(a)adv.sonybpe.com Tel: +44 (0)1256 483501, Fax: +44 (0)1256 810950 "On a 9 to 5 lemon, looking for the lime"

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Sinister: Woolies' chart position
by Stephen Garland 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

Hello there, I needed some little plastic things that only Woolies sells, so I popped over there this lunchtime. (For non-UK people, and at the risk of patronising you, Woolworths is a bright plastic shop found on every town's high street, and is known affectionately as Woolies). The one I went to is in the Elephant and Castle shopping centre in South London, which is about as un-B&S as you can get. So it was a great surprise for me when I went over to the record section - oh, hang on, they don't sell records there any more - I mean the 'music' section, to look at the Woolworth's Top 75 to find TW*TTYBUS at number...ermmm...it wasn't there at all! All the usual favourites - Manics, Dolly Parton, Hootie - were there, but no B&S. Perhaps the album's title is a little too rude for the people who go to Woolies. Ah, well. Talking of Chickfactor, which I was with a mate the other day, I know nothing of the magazine, but I know of it as a 'lad' phrase. It is best explained by example. The aforementioned (male) mate lives with 4 girls, so the 'chickfactor' of his house is 4. I live in a house of 2 boys and 2 girls, giving a chickfactor of 1. Maybe it should be called a ratio or coefficient or something (I was never any good at maths, that's why I'm an engineer), but that's how it works. Easy, eh? Now you can all go away and work out the chickfactor of B&S. I would, but don't know who's in the band, and can't be bothered trying to find out. Sorry guys (and girls, however many of you there might be). Toodle-pip, Stevie G. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: B&S Norwegian chartbusters....
by Stein Vegusdal 16 Sep '98

16 Sep '98

Hi! TWATTYBUS went straight in at number 7 in the Norwegian top 40! And if that's not enough, IYFS is at number 32...:-) The new Hole went in at nr. 14, and BEE GEES(!) at number 28. This means B&S are now officially bigger than Courtney Love and the Gibb-brothers! The sad thing is that, because of this huge success, we probably wont get to see B&S live in Norway for a while, since the only place big enough for them now is the Holmenkollen ski-jump arena (capacity 80-100.000), and that will be occupied until march/april next year... Steinski +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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