The Dulcet Tones Of Scotland's Finest.
"Belle and Sebastian are not snogging. Sometimes they hold hands, but that is only a display of public solidarity. Sebastian thinks Belle 'kicks with the other foot'. Sebastian is wrong, but then Sebastian can never see further than the next tragic ballad. It is lucky that Belle had a popular taste in music. She is the cheese to his dill pickle." - Jeepster.
It's just sort of dawned on me that I'm going to see Belle and Sebastian tonight with the New Pornographers opening up. I kind of want to go to the bathroom and rub myself. Something had to fill the gaping void that Big Country left in my life. My new camera will be making the trip (to the concert, not the bathroom), as will Nate, Tom, Janet etc - and I'll be sure to post some wacky related concert photos tomorrow.
I started listening to this band in early 1998 while I lived in England. Moynihan reccomended them to me over this new technology we'd discovered called e-mail. I ran down to HMV in Maidenhead and picked up the then just released 'The Boy With the Arab Strap' before quickly moving on to 'Tigermilk'. That CD would go on to join the Verve's Urban Hymns as the Hinds Head lockin CD, and it was a glorious time to be a 24-year-old. Pisshead.
My excitement over this band has been somewhat muted by age and time, but 7 years ago I would have burned off my own pubic hair with a magnifying glass to get a ticket. I have to get in touch with that young fanboy lad tonight and properly soak in the magnitude of the moment. But definitely try and talk him out of the whole pubic hair thing.
posted by Dave Pye @ 2/28/2006 07:07:00 PM
1 Comments:
Hope you enjoyed the B&B gig Dave! I'm also a big fan of these twee, sensitive Celtic dillitantes and would recommend all theír albums unreservedly...almost on the packaging alone actually...but the music is class too! Last two albums have seen a marked change in direction from grubby tales of adolescent whimsy and lugubrious indie torchsongs to a much more poppy, almost neo-60's chorus driven sound. 'Dear Catastrophe Waitress' and 'The Life Pursuit' are essential classics that grow and excite with repeated listens...and every bit as good as the likes of 'Tigermilk' and 'If You're Felling Sinister'. The lyrics are ever are spot on too. So get stuck in your Pye Blog afficiandos...or do I have to come over the pond to beat some musical sense into you!!!!???
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