Hi there all. So those pesky scottish kids are up to everything shobiz nowadays eh? Top 20 singles, press conferences, breaking into top BBC soap sets.... Anyway, here's a article from nme.com: love, Sam.x BELLE & SEBASTIAN were almost arrested following their appearance on 'TOP OF THE POPS' last week after breaking into the set of top BBC soap 'EASTENDERS', nme.com can reveal. The Scottish group, whod been on the show performing their number 15 hit Legal Man, went to go and find the mythical Albert Square after hearing it was near the Top Of The Pops studios. Substantially fortified with alcohol from the BBC bar, Stuart Murdoch, Chris Geddes, Sarah Martin and Richard Colbourn from the band found a gate saying No Entry that was open and wandered in. Unfortunately, a security guard saw them larking around the Queen Vic and the car lot, grabbed them and rang the police, believing them to be common or garden trespassers. By a strange coincidence, TOTP presenter Jamie Theakston and producer Chris Cowey were just being driven home as the group were grabbed. The pair instantly spotted their predicament, stopped the car, and managed to persuade the studio guard that the trespassing hoodlums were in fact slightly squiffy BBC guests. A spokesperson for the band told nme.com: "I think they were quite lucky. Its not the sort of thing theyd usually do and they almost got into real trouble over it. Theyd just been celebrating a bit too much as theyd had such a wonderful time on the show." The band, who also revealed today that the gorilla who invaded their set on TOTP was in fact their sound engineer Tony Douggan in a suit, are also celebrating going straight into the Canadian sales charts at number four with their current single. Their spokesperson laughed: "Theyre completely dumbfounded, but so chuffed, as theyve never even played live there before. But then theyve never played Norway either and theyre doing really well there too." Belle & Sebastians new album Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant was released on Monday through Jeepster. ---------------------- News story sent courtesy of nme.com (http://www.nme.com). Check out the daily news, reviews and the new e-cards of classic NME covers and our random quotes feature which stretches back to 1977. Generated by NME ( http://www.nme.com ) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+