The follow up to Funny Little Frog, and the second release from The Life Pursuit, The Blues Are Still Blue is a 60’s rock influenced treat. It’s not s miserable blues song, it’s about mixing your colours in the launderette… sort of.
This song is quirky, lively and completely addictive. Right down to the little squeaky […]

Wow. What a night. I don’t quite know where to begin… so I’m going to go for the start.
We arrived at The Octagon a bit after 8pm, about half way through support band Brakes’ set. They’re pretty darn cool. Lots of short and sharp punky song but also so nice melodic numbers.
They finished, and we […]

The Glaswegian septet returns with what some are calling their most diverse, and perhaps best, album yet.
So anyway, I’ve just bought a new dress, and instead of writing a review of this album I found myself dancing around like a fool, because this album just makes you do that. It’s got 60’s soul, 70’s rock, […]

Belle & Sebastian write twee pop music and come from Scotland. You probably already know this. They are a band people either love in an obsessive and slightly scary way or are completely indifferent to. I fall into the latter category - if some of their music comes on I don’t mind. If it isn’t […]

Wrapped Up In Books, taken from their latest album (Dear Catastrophe Waitress), is a great track. It has classic Belle & Sebastian vocals and also contains the new fuller sound that came with the latest album. It is fresh, bright and impossible to dislike.
The real surprise is in the other A-side, Your Cover’s Blown. This […]

As ever, Belle And Sebastian are oozing twee charm and creating intelligent off kilter songs. What makes Dear Catastrophe Waitress such a fantastic album is the sun blessed feel to the whole shebang. These songs are dazzlingly bright and bursting at the seams with pop joy. All of this has happened without sacrificing any of […]

9:00 pm, there they are. Wandering on stage to take their positions. They’ll start sometime… Bloody hell! How many of them are there?
Singers/guitarists, bassist, drummer… yeah… string section, keyboardist… okay… more strings, trumpeter…and other assorted people. Ready yet? Right, we’re off.
It looks like amateur-indie open-mike night, or something. Except this is Brixton Academy, and we’ve […]

Maybe I’m not the best person to write a review of Belle and Sebastian, because I know nothing about them, but clearly most of the crowd in St David’s Hall did, clapping and hooting like a ‘Stars in their Eyes’ audience 3 words into every song. And it seemed that most of the crowd had seen […]