Sinister: Give us a belle

[Walter]

Andrew seems to need some help... 

> to start transcribing the tour diary and sending it here a
> bit at a time (to build up the tension or something, or
> because i can't be arsed to type it all in in one go). but
> i'll leave that for the time being too...

I propose that each of us (at least 7 or 8 of us) transcribe one of the "calls", so that 
everybody may benefit from this very long text... Shall I start?

Melody Maker, October 18, 1997
"Give us a belle" - In the first of our occasional series of tour diaries, Belle and 
Sebastian regale us with some wild NY stories. Stuart David kicks us off.

I bought a $10 phone card from a news stand on the street in Times Square, and I 
phoned home. I had to punch in 33 numbers before anything happened, and then 
a recorded voice with an American accent said, "You have 81 minutes remaining 
for this call." And the phone rang.
And then a second recorded voice with a Scottish accent said : "Hi, this is Karn and 
Stuart; just leave a message. Bye."
It seemed wee Karn had already left for the farm, and i'd forgotten to bring the 
number there. But she's crazy about NY, and it's her ambition to come here, and 
we all wanted to let her know what it was like. So we decided to phone her up one 
at a time and leave a big long message for when she got home. It went pretty much 
like this:

CALL#1

Hi Karn, it's Stuart. You should see the hotel we're staying in. It's a modernist 
nightmare. It's designed by Philip Stark and it looks like a set from a Eurythmics 
video from the middle of the eighties. The foyer's pitch dark, and our rooms are 
pure white, with huge, gold frames -with nothing in them- behind each bed. In the 
bathrooms, the sinks are big silver cones, each with its point on the floor, and 
every soft chair has a 10-foot back and only one arm. 
We've found our own surrogate home-from-home cafe. 'S called Howard 
Johnson's, and it's just like the Grovesner because, no matter what time you go in, 
you're always sure to find at least one band member in there. 
I did get one beamer just outside there, though. This guy walked past that I thought 
I recognised from Glasgow, and when he'd gone by I turned to see who he was 
with, so I could work out who he was. But it turned out he was with Damon from 
Blur, and that he was Dave the drummer. And I was standing there as if I was 
starspotting. Still... we're having a great time. Here's Bel.

Who's next for call#2?

Walter
-- 
" Get me away from here, I'm dying..."
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