Belle And Sebastian

My band and I played a cover of "She's Losing It" at our last show... I just thought to post it here, but maybe you guys will enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GSmtBkqpnQ

This is a long shot, but is anyone in this community going to the concert in Vienna on the 16th of April? I have a ticket, but no one to go with, and meeting a fellow fan is always good fun.

Let me know!

Maddy xo

(Finally!!) got the new album...I'm a little late, I know...and I absolutely LOVE it! However, I picked up a sealed copy on vinyl and the sticker that denotes which side is which is on the wrong side (side 1 is really side 2), and there is a big scratch/scuff on one side. I was so bummed. It doesn't skip on my turntable, but I still don't like opening a brand new sealed record to find a scratch on it. I'm thinking of contacting Matador to see if they'll let me send this one back for a new one.

Does anyone else have this on vinyl? Are your labels glued to the wrong side too?  

i found this is just a modern rock song EP on vinyl at a salvation army for $.49. also i am seeing them in exactly one week in boston. WHO ELSE IS GOING?

Hello! My friend is trying to sell ONE Belle and Sebastian ticket for the Oct. 3rd Palladium show in Los Angeles. He's selling it for face value, so if you're interested, contact me on here or email me at KabukiKat16@yahoo.com

Its that time again!

I uploaded this for someone over at Jezebel and figured since I had down the work, I'll share it over here too in case no one has it.

This is the Peel Christmas Party and its brilliant!

Download it here: http://ifile.it/ar2xu0m/Peel%20Christmas%20Party.zip


I realized my copy is missing #8 Silent Night. Does any one have it?

This is a short little spoken interlude from a Belle & Sebastian show on Halloween in Minnesota in 2003. In it, Stuart and Stevie hilariously try to work out what "trick or treat" is. Stevie eventually gets it -- sort of. It's really funny. You should give it a listen.

Trick or Treatin' - Live at the Fitz Oct. 31, 2003

Also I finally got around to listening to "God Help the Girl" and I *love* it. I was very pleasantly surprised at how good it is.

I rediscovered Belle & Sebastian yesterday afternoon. The early work -- the EPs*, Tigermilk, Fold Your Hands, Child (I didn’t get Sinister and Boy With the Arab Strap until later) -- the stuff that kept me alive (quite literally) through high school.

Listening to “Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie”, I could smell my high school car again. The sweet smell of plastic and carpet shampoo as the sun radiates through the windshield, stewing everything into a unique clean-sick funk. I was so neurotic about wasting gas, wasting money, that I would never turn on the air conditioner, except when it got so hot that I thought I was going to pass out. These songs make my skin prickle and my breath come short.

It took me 40 minutes each way to work, and I would listen to these albums over, and over, and over. For months, they were the only CDs I owned, and I wore them out. Singing along, crying along, hanging on deathly tight to the violins and trumpets so I wouldn’t go entirely crazy. I got stuck in a snowstorm, driving between Colfax and Pullman, one evening, and I sat for an hour listening to I Fought In a War on repeat, while snowflakes piled onto my windshield. I could have plowed on, I’m sure, but I didn’t.

I got all of these albums for my 17th birthday and all that year -- until the next summer, when I discovered that my discography might be sorely lacking in variety, and I branched out -- I listened to them. Until I knew every beat and every nuance, until I could sing all the instrument lines, until the words were so far ingrained in my skull that even today, 8 years later, I can sing them without thinking about it.

Hearing them again, after literally years of (I suppose you could say) avoiding them, was electrifying. I didn’t realize how much I’d missed them. And I didn’t know just how much of that scared 17 year old is still underneath this skin. Sometimes, I still feel her.



* 3, 6, 9 Seconds of Light
Lazy Line Painter Jane
Dog On Wheels (on whose cover model I had a ginormous crush)