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Belle & Sebastian liefhebbers, hier verder neuzelen!

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A band that takes its name from a French children's television series about a boy and his dog would almost have to be precious, and to be certain, Belle & Sebastian are precious. But precious can be a damning word, and Belle & Sebastian don't have the negative qualities that the word connotes -- they are private but not insular, pretty but not wimpy; they make gorgeous, delicate melodies sound full-bodied. Led by guitarist/vocalist Stuart Murdoch, the seven-piece band has an intimate, majestic sound that is equal parts folk-rock and '60s pop, but Murdoch's gift for not only whimsy and surrealism, but also for odd, unsettling lyrical detail keeps the songs grounded in a tangible reality.

Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Belle & Sebastian released their first two albums in 1996 at the peak of the chamber pop movement. At first, some critics in Britain's music weeklies tied the band into the subgenre, yet the group was too pretty, too delicate, to bear that label. Through their first two years of public existence, the band shielded their personalities, submitting publicity photos featuring a girl that wasn't in the band and reluctantly posing for photo shoots. Furthermore, they performed in odd venues, playing not only the standard coffeehouses and cafes, but also homes, church halls, and libraries.

The idiosyncratic approach to building their career isn't surprising given Murdoch's approach toward beginning a band. A longtime fan of Felt, Murdoch left Glasgow for London in the early '90s in hopes of finding the group's leader, Lawrence Hayward, but he never found his idol. Upon his return to Glasgow he enrolled in university and he began writing songs and short stories. While at school, he took a music business course where he decided to form a band and release a record for his final project (he had tried to form a band before to no success). For the project, he assembled the seven-piece Belle & Sebastian, featuring himself on guitar and vocals, choosing and recruiting members by instinct in a local all-night cafe in late 1995. He eventually found Sarah Martin (violin), Stevie Jackson (guitar), Chris Geddes (keyboards), Stuart David (bass), Richard Colburn (drums), and Isobel Campbell (cello). All seven members were college students, and all agreed that the idea behind the band was to stay on a small scale, to keep it as a project and not let the band run their lives; they even assumed they would release two albums and break up.

In May of 1996, Belle & Sebastian self-released their debut album, Tigermilk, on Electric Honey Records. Only 1,000 copies of the album, which was only pressed on vinyl, were released, but it unexpectedly became a sensation, earning terrific word of mouth throughout England. As a result, the band became slightly more than a school project -- it became an actual band. If You're Feeling Sinister, released on the independent Jeepster label, followed in November of 1996. By the time the album was released in America on the EMI subsidiary The Enclave, it had earned considerable critical acclaim in the U.K. -- not only from music weeklies, but from newspapers like The Sunday Times and magazines like The Face -- and a large cult following; by some accounts, Tigermilk was being sold for as much as 75 pounds. Over the course of 1997, word of mouth continued to grow in America, even as the band pulled out of an American tour because The Enclave went bankrupt and closed.

As the band cult continued to build in 1997, Belle & Sebastian released three EPs -- Dog on Wheels (May), Lazy Line Painter Jane (July), and 3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light (October). Each subsequent EP placed higher on the indie charts and received great critical acclaim. By the end of the year, the group finalized an American deal with Matador Records, issuing The Boy With the Arab Strap in September 1998. The following year saw the eagerly anticipated wide re-release of Tigermilk, the album that started it all. Following completion of 2000's Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant, Stuart David left Belle & Sebastian to focus full-time on his solo project, Looper. In 2001, the group released two EPs -- Jonathan David and I'm Waking Up to Us -- and recorded the soundtrack for Todd Solondz's film Storytelling. Just before the soundtrack's release in spring 2002, Belle & Sebastian embarked on a comprehensive tour of the United States and Canada before returning to Europe for the summer festival season. Midway through the tour, Isobel Campbell left the band citing the usual differences. Another major change that took place soon after was the band leaving Jeepster and Matador to sign with Rough Trade, with their next record, late 2003's Dear Catastrophe Waitress, produced by the inimitable Trevor Horn (who also produced Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Yes and score of others). The record spawned the brilliant "Step Into My Office" and "I'm a Cuckoo" singles, the latter of which was the group's biggest UK hit reaching #14 in early 2004. After a long worldwide tour which found the band reaching new levels of success, they retired to Scotland and began preparing for the recording of their fifth album.
Of volgens het aub:
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Beschrijving:
Popsongs van een Schotse duo.
http://www.matadorrecords.com/belle_and_sebastian/music.html

Vorige topics:
http://forum.fok.nl/topic/47369
http://forum.fok.nl/topic/786548
http://forum.fok.nl/topic/820561
  donderdag 8 juni 2006 @ 12:36:15 #2
42816 peaceman
Peace Man! ofzo...
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Ze komen op Lowlands tvp!
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Alvast een prima reden om naar Lowlands te gaan. Nu nog ergens een koffer met geld vinden en het komt helemaal goed.

Ik zag trouwens laatst dat het album "The boy with the arab strap" een 0.8 kreeg op Pitchfork. Compleet gestoord, die lui daar.
I'm celebrating my love for you, with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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Op donderdag 8 juni 2006 12:47 schreef nozem het volgende:
Alvast een prima reden om naar Lowlands te gaan. Nu nog ergens een koffer met geld vinden en het komt helemaal goed.

Ik zag trouwens laatst dat het album "The boy with the arab strap" een 0.8 kreeg op Pitchfork. Compleet gestoord, die lui daar.
Idd, sindsdien neem ik PF nooit meer zo serieus..
  donderdag 8 juni 2006 @ 14:10:14 #5
48233 Auticia
warriorette
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Hey, wat leuk! Een B&S-topic!
I bet you are flying inside.
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Op donderdag 8 juni 2006 14:10 schreef Auticia het volgende:
Hey, wat leuk! Een B&S-topic!
Uhm... deel 4 inmiddels, je bent laat
Zo hee
  donderdag 8 juni 2006 @ 18:15:19 #7
141482 Q.
JurassiQ
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Op donderdag 8 juni 2006 14:10 schreef Auticia het volgende:
Hey, wat leuk! Een B&S-topic!
Wat Ties zegt.
For great justice!
  donderdag 8 juni 2006 @ 18:21:36 #8
52164 pfaf
pfief, pfaf, pfoef!
  donderdag 8 juni 2006 @ 19:32:32 #9
56690 DaisyDuke
In Coffee We Trust!
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Belle & Sebastian, zoooo overschat!
1,000,000 demons can't be wrong...
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If you're feeling sinister blijft toch van begin tot eind een waar genot voor de oortjes.
I'm celebrating my love for you, with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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Op donderdag 8 juni 2006 19:32 schreef DaisyDuke het volgende:
Belle & Sebastian, zoooo overschat!
Waarom? Omdat je het geen leuke muziek vind?
  zaterdag 10 juni 2006 @ 19:32:00 #12
262 Re
Kiss & Swallow
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Op donderdag 8 juni 2006 14:10 schreef Auticia het volgende:
Hey, wat leuk! Een B&S-topic!
zwaai topic

04-08-11, 02-02-12, 20-06-14, 13-08-15
  zaterdag 10 juni 2006 @ 19:34:50 #13
43584 Beregd
absolutely inch perfect
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Op donderdag 8 juni 2006 19:32 schreef DaisyDuke het volgende:
Belle & Sebastian, zoooo overschat!
Maar wel goed.
En ze hebben gevoel voor humor. Heb onlangs een cover van hun van Billy Jean afgehaad.
  zaterdag 10 juni 2006 @ 19:58:06 #14
48233 Auticia
warriorette
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Op zaterdag 10 juni 2006 19:32 schreef Re het volgende:

[..]

zwaai topic

. Hey!
Paradiso-flashbacks!
.
I bet you are flying inside.
  zaterdag 10 juni 2006 @ 20:03:19 #15
262 Re
Kiss & Swallow
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Op zaterdag 10 juni 2006 19:58 schreef Auticia het volgende:

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. Hey!
Paradiso-flashbacks!
.
vuurtje
04-08-11, 02-02-12, 20-06-14, 13-08-15
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Op zaterdag 10 juni 2006 19:58 schreef Auticia het volgende:

[..]

. Hey!
Paradiso-flashbacks!
.
Oeeeh dat was leuk zeg
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gelukkig is de opname daarvan ook helemaal niet leuk.

Of wel, Q?
  zondag 11 juni 2006 @ 07:39:13 #18
141482 Q.
JurassiQ
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Nee, echt vreselijk.
For great justice!
  zondag 11 juni 2006 @ 11:20:23 #19
56690 DaisyDuke
In Coffee We Trust!
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Op zaterdag 10 juni 2006 16:22 schreef Man_in_a_Shed het volgende:

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Waarom? Omdat je het geen leuke muziek vind?
Nee, meer omdat tvp zo afgezaagd is...
1,000,000 demons can't be wrong...
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Op zondag 11 juni 2006 11:20 schreef DaisyDuke het volgende:

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Nee, meer omdat tvp zo afgezaagd is...
Dat is waar .
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Op donderdag 8 juni 2006 12:47 schreef nozem het volgende:
Ik zag trouwens laatst dat het album "The boy with the arab strap" een 0.8 kreeg op Pitchfork. Compleet gestoord, die lui daar.
Dat is een recensie met een knipoog (op z'n 'pitchforks') mijns inziens. (tevens tvp)
Aldus.
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Op zondag 11 juni 2006 20:49 schreef Z het volgende:

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Dat is een recensie met een knipoog (op z'n 'pitchforks') mijns inziens. (tevens tvp)
Ik vat 'm niet
  woensdag 12 juli 2006 @ 11:12:05 #23
56690 DaisyDuke
In Coffee We Trust!
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Voor de verzamelaars:
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In preparation for Belle and Sebsatian’s Australian tour, Shock have released an Australian EP for The Blues are Still Blue. The EP collects all the b-sides from the last 2 UK singles and adds the song recorded for the Help! compilation last year.

Tracklisting:

The Blues are Still Blue
I Took a Long Hard Look
The Life Pursuit
Whiskey in the Jar
Funny Little Frog
Meat and Potatoes
Mr. Richard
The Eighth Station of the Cross Kebab House
1,000,000 demons can't be wrong...
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Whiskey in the Jar? Een metallica cover? Ow nee toch.
  woensdag 12 juli 2006 @ 12:36:19 #25
56690 DaisyDuke
In Coffee We Trust!
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Whiskey in the Jar is een Ierse traditional, Dries. Onder andere bekend in uitvoeringen van The Dubliners, Thin Lizzy, The Pogues en inderdaad Metallica.

Ken uw klassiekers...
1,000,000 demons can't be wrong...
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