― CarsmileSteve, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pete, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chaki, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
No I have never been a member of Sinister BUT someone pretending to be me signed up and posted that indie kids article and got a bollocking for their impersonatory nefarities. I've never found out who it was.
― Tom, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew L, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nicole, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sarah, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
ILE = Sinister Sunset Home, innit!
BTW, Welcome Linda/Lulou/Occasional Sinister List Mum :)
― David, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I know I'm always bloody literal and po-faced, but I think it's great. I've been an active member for 4 years; I went to the first picnic, and have barely missed one since; I set up a club night bascially for the sinister massive, which has been a decent success; I've travelled to America and relied on the comfort of strangers of a sinister nature; I have pulled, including one member of THIS community and also my recently-ex long-term girlfriend. I have made literally dozens of friends, and several very good ones. I have been spurred to do any number of things I wouldn't have done through lazinees, apathy or ignorance, including writing, travelling, playing football, clubbing, sweet lovin' and for that and more Sinister has been a massivley important and positive part of my life.
I'm not going to bang on about the bad things, as I know there are many others who'll do it for me. But don't anyone dare dismiss it - it's been a complete (and very much for the better) life changer.
p.s. Archel's on it too.
― Mark C, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Archel, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― MarkH, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― katie, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Oh Lord. Someone tell me these bands don't exist!
― Dr. C, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DV, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― RickyT, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Ah, but they do. And at least one of them are very fine indeed.
― Jeff W, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Basically, I wouldn't have a life if not for Sinister. Sad but true. So I am grateful.
― Ally C, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
so there's like 2 of 'em, is there? belle and ...
ILE (which I mostly just read and not contribute due to my wordage defficiencies) is a more intimidating place if you ask me, but that's cos it's more growndup.
I'm off back to my dingy bedsit to cry and listen to B&S now....
― bappsy, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jel --, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
ILE growndup????
I had never heard of Sinister until I discovered ILE.
I defend my right to make my own lifestyle and go to the SECOND weekend of All Tomorrow's Parties without jaws hitting the floor at my freakish choice.
― Anna, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Yeah, in it's willingness to discuss E!V!E!R!Y!T!H!I!N!G, and stimulate the mind, as opposed to the *sometimes* introverted insecure tendancies of sinister. ILE is still erm playful, but it has got over itself if you know what I mean? I don't think sinister has.
― mark s, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I suspect that the sort of stuff I couldn't really stand to read (and, which, towards the end, I was deleting without even skimming) is now in the ascendancy and, to be honest, has possibly always defined the list (and B&S fans in general) in the eyes of the casual observer. Or maybe it's still full of hilarious folks, all too young for me to understand.
I'll always be eternally grateful to the Edinburgh McCartneys for keeping it going - it did, after all, provide me with an instant social circle upon moving to London in '98. Some of these people even still talk to me.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Sinister brought me all kinds of good things, including some of my best friends. I met at least five certifiable (in one sense or another) pop geniuses through my involvement with that list. For a while it seemed a surprisingly broadminded group of variously benign and malign nutters, and the funniest / most exciting place on the ENTIRE INTERWEB! Now, I feel much the same way about it as the lying cur Ally C does.
Katie: your friend publicly criticises B&S / "they all" (really?) publicly criticise your friend's band. Who was supposed to be in the wrong in this exchange?
― Tim, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But regardless of the chaff, as Tim, Mike and others have said, the good stuff that's come out of Sinister is Very Good Indeed. It's a bit of a shame that many of the amazing scribes and comic geniuses of the list have moved on - there is a slight feeling of self-fulfilling prophesy when many of the naysayers no longer posting contributed hugely to making it what it is/was at its peak, and are sadly missed as a result.
If I had my way, Tim, Mike, N., Sarah, Edna and Ally would all post regularly and make my little heart bounce for joy*. Peter Miller IS back, though, so if that's a reason to re-subscribe...
*see, this wonderful metaphor is a reason I are now a pro writx0r.
― Samantha, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― .stet., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sarah, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sarah, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vicky, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vicky, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― marianna lcl, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 8 March 2007 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 8 March 2007 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark G, Thursday, 8 March 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Madchen, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sarah, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― JPB, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Keith, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Keith, Friday, 9 March 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd forgotten about this:
Sinister village.
I don't really understand it, even! What was the plan?
― Alba, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
I've never seen it before...
― Keith, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh dear lord. Never saw it, either, and I can't figure it out...?
― Laurel, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Lolz at Koogy on that list :-)
Yep, that whole thing is a Grate Big Mystery to me too. No wonder people think Sinister people are weird though.
Who's letting me kip on their couch for Sinister picnic weekend then? Sorry, PLEASE someone, can I kip on your couch for Sinister picnic weekend? I have been a house guest of several of you lot before, and appear to still be friends with you all, therefore can recommend myself as OK. I can reward you with booze, if that helps?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link
With a fine disregard for deadlines in honour of Tony Wilson, two days before the event, we has a flyer...
http://idisk.mac.com/stephentrousse/Public/acdof.gif
― Stevie T, Thursday, 23 August 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
https://newrepublic.com/article/128497/sinister-history-belle-sebastian-email-list
― i like to CH4 CH4 and i am crazy (jaymc), Monday, 14 March 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Sinister posts by (former) ILXors appear as pull quotes.
― i like to CH4 CH4 and i am crazy (jaymc), Monday, 14 March 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link