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BELLE AND SEBASTIAN "3,6,9 SECONDS OF LIGHT"
four tracks from the sublime Scots odd-bods - OUT MONDAY

Is it true ? MONDAY ????? Really ????

Another problematic record is/was Drum by Hugo Largo. You had to play it over and over again, because it seemed like there was nothing else like it around at the time.

As for cowboys casting aspersions on Belle and Sebastian's sexuality, don't worry. Culture Club had the same trouble during their guest appearance on The A -Team. Boy George won the cowboys over by helping to solve a scam in which some evil villains were stealing all their savings and blaming it on Mister T and company. By the end of the programme Boy George had all the cowboys eating out of the palm of his delicately manicured hand.

It would be great if Belle and Sebastian were on Taggart, but I think he's dead now. I can just see it now.....Isobel's teddy bear is the only witness to a heinous crime on the Forth and Clyde Canal towpath...the hapless drummer inadvertently stumbles across a suitcase full of wacky baccy in Kelvigrove Park...leading to the keyboard player's uncovering of an indie-pop and anorak smut peddling ring operating out of a top floor Oakfield Avenue bedsit...

Peter