Belle & Sebastian live...

This tour was pretty sedate compared to their last; they played Electronic Renaissance last time they came to toronto! This time, not so much.

Drummer left behind at a truck stop: what's on your iPod?

accidentally looked at the person stood next to me once at a gig (it was Murdoch) and the look he gave me back suggests to me the "squashed chip" theory upthread could be credible

I liked this band more when they were called The Beautiful South.

Back in the day, one of my friends, a fellow habituee of the West End of Glasgow, used to call them the "24 Minute Party People", or was that the Pastels? Probably both.

'their support acts are always dreadful'
in 98 we had elliot smith, fresh from his oscar nomination.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:05 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yes, i remember the '98 Shepherd's Bush show...bah.
;-)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:09 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I went to that gig because a friend of mine bought me a ticket for my birthday knowing I liked indiepop music and he was into B&S... I'd heard If You're Feeling Sinister and thought it was alright but that was about it. Tbh I thought that gig was pretty awful. The sound was fucking terrible, could hardly hear anything. I hadn't heard of Elliot Smith and he was sat down playing solo acoustic so it just seemed like they'd brought a busker on tour with them. Maybe if I'd known his music it would've been better, but I was just bored.