Belle and Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian biography

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996-2001 (including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

During the downtime, Murdoch has initiated the film and music project God Help the Girl, while Jackson and Kildea have toured with the reformed Vaselines.

In May 2010, the band stated on their website that they were "back in the studio working on some new songs" and later revealed that they were "in the final stages of recording the new album". Sarah Martin later stated in the Q&A section of their website that it would be a 14 track album.

On 17 July 2010, the band performed their first UK gig in almost four years to a crowd of around 30,000 at Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Southwold. They performed two new songs, 'I Didn't See It Coming' and 'I'm Not Living In The Real World'.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love. The first single from the album, as well as the record's title track "Write About Love", was released in the US on 7 September 2010. The UK and international release was 25 September 2010.

In December 2010 Belle & Sebastian curated the sequel to the Bowlie Weekender in the form of Bowlie 2 presented by All Tomorrow's Parties.

The current members are:

• Stuart Murdoch: 1996-present, vocals, electric and acoustic guitar and keyboards
• Stevie Jackson: 1996-present, vocals, electric and acoustic guitar
• Chris Geddes: 1996-present, keyboards
• Richard Colburn: 1996-present, drums
• Sarah Martin: 1997-present, violin, keyboards, electric and acoustic guitar, and vocals
• Mick Cooke: 1998-present, trumpet and bass
• Bobby Kildea: 2000-present, guitar and bass

Past members:

• Isobel Campbell: 1996-2002, vocals and cello
• Stuart David: 1996-2000, bass

In popular culture

• The band contributed two songs, 'Piazza New York Catcher' and 'Expectations' to the soundtrack of the film Juno, appearing alongside Antsy Pants, The Moldy Peaches, Kimya Dawson, Cat Power, Mott the Hoople, and others. The song "She's Losing It" was also featured on one of the film's trailers.
• "We Rule The School" was featured in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother first season episode "Return of the Shirt" as a song always listened to by an ex-girlfriend of Ted Mosby; however in the flashback the album cover shown was The Boy with the Arab Strap, although the song doesn't appear on that album, but on Tigermilk.
• The song "The Boy with the Arab Strap" was used during the closing credits of the Channel 4 UK TV series Teachers
• The lead character in the film (500) Days of Summer quotes the line "Colour my life with the chaos of trouble...", a lyric from the song "The Boy with the Arab Strap".
• The song "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying" is used in the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
• The song "Sleep the Clock Around" is used in the Season 1, Episode 4 of The Killing.
• In the British comedy show Spaced the song "Legal Man" is heard in the background of Episode 6, Series 1.
• The song "Waiting On the Moon to Rise" appeared in 2009 film The Other Woman.
• In the Gilmore Girls Season 2 episode "It Should've Been Lorelai" the song "Legal Man" is played as Rory Gilmore has a Belle & Sebastian album dropped off in Lane Kim's bag.
• In Vera Brosgol's 2011 graphic novel Anya's Ghost there is a poster for Belle & Sebastian in the title character's bedroom.
• The band was featured briefly in a scene for the film High Fidelity starring John Cusack and Jack Black. In the movie, Black's character Barry, an obnoxious, self-appointed music expert, dismissively describes the band's sound as "old sad bastard music".

Discography

• Tigermilk (1996)
• If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
• The Boy with the Arab Strap (1998)
• Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (2000)
• Storytelling (2002)
• Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
• Push Barman to Open Old Wounds (2005)
• The Life Pursuit (2006)
• Belle and Sebastian Write About Love (2010)

See also

• List of bands from Glasgow

References

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