Het grote Belle & Sebastian topic (deel 2)

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Op zondag 1 januari 2006 12:50 schreef Brahimov het volgende:

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Fans Only, I presume? Of heb ik een heel album gemist??

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Op zondag 1 januari 2006 14:47 schreef -Dries- het volgende:

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Belle and Sebastian
4 stars Barbican, London
Alexis Petridis
Tuesday September 27 2005
The Guardian


Surprises are not really meant to be on the agenda at the Don't Look
Back season of concerts. The concept of getting bands to play their
best-loved album live allows fans to bask in familiarity: you should always
know what's going to happen next. But three songs into Belle and
Sebastian's performance of 1996's If You're Feeling Sinister, something
surprising happens. They are playing Me and the Major, one of their second
album's many songs of disappointment and bookish alienation. Guitarist
Stevie Jackson huffs a harmonica frantically, singer Stuart Murdoch
slashes a two-chord riff from his acoustic guitar. It all sounds, well,
bizarrely muscular.

This is not an adjective usually associated either with Belle and
Sebastian's music or, indeed, their fans. Emerging at Britpop's height, If
You're Feeling Sinister swam defiantly against prevalent trends. When
everyone else was writing songs that blokes could bellow along to at
closing time, Belle and Sebastian offered a kind of rallying call for
wallflowers. The LP's songs were hushed and literate, populated by misfit
athletes and schoolgirls seeking religion. The sound seemed entirely
based on music verboten under Britpop's laddish traditionalism: French pop,
wispy singer-songwriters, 60s soul and the oft-derided jangle of
mid-80s indie. It was a fantastic album, heralding Murdoch's unique
songwriting talent. But, live, Belle and Sebastian proved maddening:
transcendent beauty one night, an inaudible shambles the next.

Tonight, an opening lucky dip of b-sides designed to "warm the band up"
strongly suggest the evening might belong in the latter category. You
can actually hear the band, which is a start, but you can't hear the
lyrics because Murdoch keeps forgetting them. The audience applaud wildly
anyway, but it augurs ill. "You're too kind," says Murdoch, "since you
only got half the bloody words." By the time they play If You're
Feeling Sinister's bleak opener, Stars of Track and Field, however, Belle and
Sebastian are transformed.

The 12 musicians onstage gel so perfectly that familiar songs take on a
new life, their emotional impact amplified way beyond the recorded
versions. Fox in the Snow sounds impossibly tender and sad. The closing
Judy and the Dream of Horses even provokes the most timid audience rampage
in popular music history. It takes several minutes of gentle coaxing
from Murdoch to get started, but eventually a few fans storm the stage,
or at least the shadows at the right hand side, as if they don't want to
bother anyone. It's like watching a stage invasion scripted by Alan
Bennett, but as they bob about rather self-consciously in the gloom and
the final chorus of the song spirals gleefully upwards, you're struck by
how the decade since If You're Feeling Sinister's release has done
nothing to blunt Belle and Sebastian's mysterious individuality.


copyright Guardian Newspapers

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Op zondag 1 januari 2006 14:47 schreef -Dries- het volgende:

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Ik zie het net op de officiele site dat ze een live album hebben waar ze sinister in chronologische volgorde spelen

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Op maandag 2 januari 2006 16:14 schreef DaisyDuke het volgende:

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Wat vinden jullie eigenlijk van The Gentle Waves en de andere projecten van Isobel?

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Op dinsdag 3 januari 2006 11:51 schreef Auticia het volgende:
Ik heb 2 cd's van Looper, the Geometrid en Up a Tree (als ik het goed heb). Ik vind 't erg tof!

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I'm making a single for Stow College, which I think you know about. I think I'm going to have to step into the real world of The Biz shortly, and I don't know how I'm going to put up
with all the hassle. It should be a laugh. I'm recording at the end of February, which is not too far away. I decided to use the name Belle & Sebastian for the project. I know you think that's daft, but it just happens to be the mode of thought that I'm occupying at the moment. I'm still thinking about the short story I wrote about in the summer. Maybe I should let you read that. I might put a copy in for you. But the funny thing is that I met a girl called "Belle, short for Isobel" at a party. And she's going to be playing cello and singing backing. Fucking crazzy,

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And at lunch we're meeting a madman. This geyser's got his own indie label, Jeepster, and he's coming from London to see us playing in a room! Ha ha.

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Op woensdag 4 januari 2006 20:29 schreef DaisyDuke het volgende:
Dat was 2002, daar was ik ook bij!

Maar zeker leuk, Auticia!

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Op woensdag 4 januari 2006 22:22 schreef Brahimov het volgende:

Hidden track: The twelve days of Christmas

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Op woensdag 4 januari 2006 22:34 schreef Auticia het volgende:

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[afbeelding]. Hoohoo!