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Belle And Sebastian

Belle And Sebastian

The BBC Sessions

Belle & Sebastian : I'm Waking Up To Us

Belle & Sebastian : I'm Waking Up To Us

Their best single since 'Lazy Line Painter Jane'...

  • Nov 20, 2001
Belle & Sebastian: Los Angeles, Hollywood Bowl, Thursday July 6

Belle & Sebastian: Los Angeles, Hollywood Bowl, Thursday July 6

B&S celebrate 10 years as one of British indie’s best-kept secrets… in front of 18,000 Americans

  • Aug 7, 2006
Belle & Sebastian : London Royal Albert Hall

Belle & Sebastian : London Royal Albert Hall

Murky sound can't completely dampen the full force of Belle & Sebastian...

  • Jul 1, 2001
Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit

Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit

The titans of twee finally find their inner strength

  • Jan 27, 2006
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant

Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant

Despite all its self-defeating limitations, this remains a superb record...

  • May 31, 2000
Belle & Sebastian : London Astoria: December 4

Belle & Sebastian : London Astoria: December 4

Belle & Sebastian are quite simply the best pop act in Britain at the moment.

  • Jan 21, 2004
Lazy Line Painter Jane

Lazy Line Painter Jane

They're simply too comfortable in those second-hand ideas, too enraptured by their own laboured mystique to consider any true leaps forward. The emperor's borrowed clothes, anyone?

  • Mar 3, 2000
Belle & Sebastian   : Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Belle & Sebastian : Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Seductively charismatic and packed full of tunes

  • Oct 8, 2003
London Shepherd's Bush Empire

London Shepherd's Bush Empire

Shhh! Motorhead they are not...

  • Aug 16, 1998
Belle & Sebastian  :  Storytelling

Belle & Sebastian : Storytelling

Who knows, this mouse might yet roar...

  • Jun 7, 2002
Belle & Sebastian : The Boy With The Arab Strap

Belle & Sebastian : The Boy With The Arab Strap

By rights, of course, they should be failures. Sometimes it seems they'd be happier that way ...

  • Aug 3, 1998

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