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Arab Strap News

Arab Strap 'Best Of' gets US release

'Ten Years Of Tears' hits US shelves next month

  • Jan 15, 2007

Arab Strap to split

'No drama, we've run our course' say band

  • Sep 8, 2006

REINDEER SECTION SLEIGH THE UK!

Get your anaoraks at the ready, because Reindeer Section are planning live dates...

  • Jun 7, 2001

READING/LEEDS CARLING STAGE - THE FULL BILL

NME.COM can reveal the full bill for the stage which unveils the stars of tomorrow...

  • Jun 4, 2001

ARABIAN NIGHTS!

Don't expect a bunch of chirpy pop songs, but more maudlin tales of botched romance and bad sex - hooray!...

  • Apr 6, 2001

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Arab Strap Pictures

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YouTube Arab Strap Videos

arab strap - the shy retirer

arab strap - the shy retirer (03:49)

video for 'the shy retirer' from arab strap

Arab Strap The First Big Weekend

Arab Strap The First Big Weekend (04:53)

1996 single

Belle & Sebastian -The Boy With The Arab Strap-

Belle & Sebastian -The Boy With The Arab Strap- (04:50)

B&S performing TBWTAS in Jools Holland, live on TV

Arab Strap - Cherubs: Stereo

Arab Strap - Cherubs: Stereo (05:09)

Music video by Arab Strap performing Cherubs: Stereo with Arab Strap [Producer] (C) 1999 Go Beat Ltd.

Arab Strap - Dream Sequence

Arab Strap - Dream Sequence (04:13)

Director: Ashley Wadell Year: 2005

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Arab Strap Reviews

Album review: Aidan Moffat And The Best-Ofs

Album review: Aidan Moffat And The Best-Ofs

How To Get To Heaven From Scotland

  • Feb 18, 2009

Arab Strap : Turbulence - The Remixes

Bis get to remind the world that they were into '80s-retro [I]years[/I] before it was fashionable.

  • May 9, 2001

Arab Strap : The Red Thread

The song remains the same, then, broken and unfixable.

  • Feb 27, 2001

Arab Strap : Love Detective

This isn't pop so much as [I]jazz [/I]crossed with (ugh) literature....

  • Jan 29, 2001

Blackness/Rocket, Take Your Turn

The air of drunken, confessional humiliation is spiced with more creeping nastiness than usual...

  • Nov 20, 2000

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Arab Strap Biography

Arab Strap were an indie rock band from Scotland that consisted of core members Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton. The band were signed to independent record label Chemikal Underground, and split in 2006. As indicated by the title of Belle and Sebastian's third record, The Boy With The Arab Strap, and by Aidan Moffat's involvement in the two Reindeer Section albums, they were a central part of Glasgow's influential late 1990s music scene.

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Arab Strap's Best Songs

  • 1. The First Big Weekend
  • 2. The Shy Retirer
  • 3. Stink
  • 4. Here We Go
  • 5. Don't Ask Me to Dance
  • 6. There Is No Ending
  • 7. Dream Sequence
  • 8. Packs of Three
  • 9. (If There's) No Hope for Us
  • 10. Cherubs
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Arab Strap Discography

Arab Strap albums.

  • The Last Romance - 17/10/2005 (Chemikal Underground/GB)
  • Monday at the Hug & Pint - 21/04/2003 (Chemikal Underground/GB)
  • The Red Thread - 26/02/2001 (Chemikal Underground/GB)
  • Elephant Shoe - 13/09/1999 (Go! Beat Records/GB)
  • Philophobia - 20/04/1998 (Chemikal Underground/GB)
  • The Week Never Starts Round Here - 25/11/1996 (Chemikal Underground/GB)

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