G'day all.
Sorry to pester you again so soon, but in the organising of the
Melbourne Sinister Pubnic, I've discovered that my second-best mate
Jeremy (formerly of this parish) has a spare ticket for Saturday's
show. If anyone fancies it, please drop me a line off-list
(dhewitt(a)gmail.com) and I'll put you in touch with him. Come to the
pubnic then come along to the gig - it'll be grand.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm officially excited.
Australia making its first World Cup appearance in 32 years, and a
Belle and Sebastian show off the back of their best work in what feels
like almost as long. Winter's never known such sunshine, I tells ya.
Bulk love,
-David (Vanilla Flavoured)
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G'day all!
So who fancies a pubnic before this Saturday's gig? The Melbourne
Sinister Massive will be convening at the Portland Hotel on Russell St
(between Little Collins and Bourke St) at around 3pm, if anyone's
keen. There'll be shelter, warmth, food, drink (both alcoholic and
non) and banter available on the day. There will also be some special
guest SiniSTARs from sunny Auckland in attendance. And I'm totally
going to bring my Uno cards with me, even though the missus almost
certainly doesn't want me to.
Regardless of whether you're a visitor to Melbourne, a long-lost
friend, or previously-unearthed lurker, we'd love to see you there.
Drop me a line (dhewitt(a)gmail.com) or just turn up on the day.
Bulk love,
-Vanilla Flavoured David.
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What a beautiful day up here in Iceland. The sun is shining after a
really cold May and finally summer is upon us.
I woke up rather sheepish after a long and hard weekend (the beer may be
expensive here but it is good) and as I read the paper all my troubles
went away.
It´s finally confirmed although not on the official site but finally my
dear Belle & Sebastian are coming to Iceland for two whole gigs which is
just extra ordinary fun. On the 27th of July they will play Nasa (the
only venue that comes to mind that suits them where people can dance and
not sit) and two days later they will play on the other side of the
country in a remote town. That my friends will be something else. Seeing
my fav band playing in the middle of bloody nowhere will be a special
moment for sure.
So all you Sinister people that have longed for all this time to come to
Iceland one day. The day is upon you. Why not come when B&S are playing
here?
I saw them the other day in Copenhagen. Finally I don't have to travel
abroad to see our beloved band, finally they play on my own turf.
Enjoy your summer and play safe.
Gummi
Iceland
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This feels like an almost incredible story… anyway, as you may remember (well maybe not) I live in Malmö in Sweden and being the big b&s fan I am, me and some friends booked tickets for Copenhagen at first – and THEN, the band was booked for Malmö AS WELL. This was really stupid, because it would cost an extra ten pounds just to travel to Copenhagen and back!
Another friend of mine, Lisa (who's much more sensible), was going to see them yesterday in Malmö, and she agreed to go with me to the venue early and stalk our good Struan (and indeed the rest of the band). It was really cold outside and I was accustomed to 25 degrees Celsius and scorching sunlight (just coming back from half a week in Berlin), naturally, I wasn't dressed for it. Still, we met some nice people who were also there 'a bit early', like Nils who'd been waiting for five years or something just to manage the 18-year-old-limit. That must suck! They should have a matinee show with 18 as the maximum age (perhaps with the b&s children's program as the opener?). Well, after a long wait Struan and Stevie finally came out and talked to us for a bit. Struan actually remembered talking to me in Glasgow last year. Can you believe that! He heard of my precarious situation, took a note with my name and said 'I'll see what I can do' or suchlike.
Then me and Lisa went to have dinner with some of her friends, me still not allowing myself to get all exalted, because I still might not get in. After what seemed like a right Last Supper we strolled down to the venue. With shaky legs I tried to sound confident and whimpered 'I'm on the guest list'. And then all in a flash I was inside! (please hold in mind this was only my third b&s gig...) We'd missed the support act, Swedish band Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, but no matter. B&S played a long and fabulous set. I got a set list but I won’t trouble you with it – you'll soon find it on the website either way. But some of the Goodies were: "The Stars of Track and Field" as the opener, Stevie singing "To Be Myself Completely" (one my Stevie-faves), finally hearing "Electronic Renaissance" (which they seem to play all time now...), "A Century of Fakers" (which almost made up for not hearing "Beautiful", which I always request), "Me and the Madge" (as the set list says) and "Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie".
I woke up this morning and had almost forgotten about the whole thing. Maybe it was a dream. Maybe it will be more life-like in Copenhagen next week. Maybe not – if they play Beautiful :)
Until next time!
Love,
Chris
This weeks listening: Desert Wolves, East Village, Friends, Hurrah! and - naturally - The Go-Betweens.
This weeks quote: "We never even kissed, the girl she said I was truly horrific."
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Admittedly this is not much to go on. But, i was in Reikavik last week and
heard an amazing song on the video channel Sirkus, but I can't find out who
it is (they do not list the names/titles of songs or artists). The video has
english subtitles (even though it's sung in english) and the video basically
shows the band playing after waking up from a hangover (the subtitles
mention midgets and other stuff). The song itself is piano driven and
upbeat, and I think there was a line that read something like "the golden
rule becomes your friend" -- but i can't find it on the net, so it's not
exactly right. It ends in a barrage of chorus where they sing "la la la la
la". Oh, one of the band members was wearing a t-shirt that said "Hive", but
it's not the band called Hive nor the other popular band The Hives. That's
all i remember -- i know it's a bit cryptic but I'm sure someone on this
list knows whom this is. Thanks for your help.
PS. Thanks to Lawrence for that very nice note on Grant. I bought Before
Hollywood about a year ago because I kept hearing about how good the band
was. After a few listens, i was hooked -- their songs (particularly Grant's
lyrics) really resonated with me. I highly recommend them if you have not
heard them. So sad...
Sam
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OK, sorry about the shattershot emails, but surely _someone_ on this
list is going to one of Isobel's shows and would be able to pick me up
a tour EP?
Thanks again ... I'll go back to being quiet
Lawrence
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I bought my first Go-Betweens album eight years ago. It must have been
around this time of year, as I remember it was a chilly autumn Sunday
afternoon. I'd just met my friend David Poppelwell for the first time
at a cafe called Alleluya on K' Road in Auckland, where'd we'd
awkwardly talked about Belle & Sebastian, Hal Hartley films, and
skirted around the issue of whether meeting people on band chatrooms
was really a good basis for a lasting friendship. (As it turns out, it
was.) Afterwards I wandered down to the old Record Exchange where I
picked up a tatty copy of the "1978 – 1990" compilation. I'd read an
interview with Stuart Murdoch, where he'd extolled the virtues of The
Go-Betweens and, despite my reservations (I assumed John Wilsteed to
be the lead singer, based on his position in the main photo – you know
– that one where they're all in a doorway – and, with his bleached
hair and granny glasses, I was a little worried) Anyway, I paid the
requisite $15 and took it home. On first listen the music was
maddeningly stange. There were these slick, almost MOR pop songs like
"Streets of your Town" and "Bachelor Kisses", but interspersed between
them were these weird, angular songs like "Hammer The Hammer" and "The
Clarke Sisters". It took a bit of perseverance to really get into that
album, but over the next few months it became a regular companion on
my bus rides into the city on those chilly mornings, and something of
an obsession. "Streets of your Town", which usually arrived as the bus
was climbing the Harbour Bridge, sounded perfect on those mornings
where the air temperature is sharp with chill, and yet the sun shines
down on near-cloudless water so it looks like you're suspended above a
sea of diamonds. When that little Spanish guitar solo kicked in, I'd
feel like getting out of my seat and dancing, like that final scene in
"The Last Days of Disco".
A few months later I found cheap second-hand CDs of "16 Lovers Lane"
and "Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express" at Real Groovy
Records. Hearing some of those already much-loved songs in the context
of their parent albums made them sound even richer, and I started to
get a feel for the differences in Robert and Grant's songwriting.
Generally Roberts were the weird, odd ones, and Grant's were the more
melodic, poppy and poetic ones. I guess Robert's image and style
always appealed a little more to me, but Grant's songs were the ones I
found myself singing along to. I quickly bought up the rest of the
bands' 80s catalogue, and traded and begged to get my hands on as many
rarites and b-sides as I could. The Go-Betweens were one of those
bands with a small but perfectly formed back catalogue. A band who
traded on the quality of their songs, not on any notions of hipster
cool or indie cred. A band with a core duo of two men who looked like
secondary school teachers, but who could melt your heart with a chord
change or a casually tossed lyric like 'his father's watch, he left it
in the shower'. A band that few of my friends cared that much about. A
band I could clutch tightly to my chest and keep to myself for those
times when no one else mattered.
Since then, of course, there have been three new Go-Betweens albums.
Unlike most reformations, each one has been worthy of the name and the
legacy. There have been few moments or memories since 1998 that which
haven't been soundtracked to a Go-Betweens song. And, of course, there
was that unforgettable night at the St. James in 2002. I feel so
fortunate to have seen Grant and Robert play live, and to have met and
talked to Robert afterwards. I only wish I'd met Grant that night too,
if only to tell him that "Love Goes On" is the greatest album opener
of all time.
Now there will be no more Go-Betweens albums, because Grant McLennan
died in his sleep three days ago.
I remember what I was doing and where I was the day Kurt Cobain died
and the day Elliott Smith died. But those two men were troubled souls
whose time on earth was always going to be cut. Nothing compares to
this. Honestly, I still can't really believe it. Grant wrote some of
my favourite lyrics of all time. "Dusty In Here", "Magic In Here",
"Cattle and Cane", "Bye Bye Pride"… He wrote about Australia, and
being Austrailian, in a way very few have ever matched.
Farewell Grant McLennan.
Lawrence
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Hi,
I'm not very good at this kind of thing. I was expecting someone else to do
it, to be the first to mention it. I don't want to be the bringer of gloom
to your inbox. But, you should be told, I think. You may not be bothered, I
suppose, but you probably will be. It's just to say that Grant McLennan's
died unexpectedly, in his sleep, at the age of 48.
It's really rubbish news. But I thought you'd want to know.
See you at ATP?
Now, let's see if I can remember how to post...
gina
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when i read stacey dahling's mention of "sexy vegetarians", i sincerely
thought that she meant some people of the list, & not celebrities...
*laughs*
being a vegetarian myself, i'm not so inanely conceited to even begin to
imagine that i should claim myself as remotely "sexy"...
well, i'm looking forward to attending belle and sebastian's concert at le
paris' bataclan next saturday, amost every two years they treat us by
beginning their european tour by playing here... & let's forget that some
french pop magazine recently decided that the group were "cool" again, when
before they 'd slag every 45rpm for being too "twee" or proving a sub-Love"
hoax...
une autre "cover" de serge gainsbourg s'il vous plaît... "l'appareil à sous"
par exemple?
cheers- david x
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oooh, look... tw of the lads are up for PETA's sexiest vegetarian award!
ha!
vote here:
http://www.peta2.com/OUTTHERE/o-sexyveg06.asp?c=p2sv118
-stacey
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