Sinister: B&S Enlighten New York

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     Attenzione! Attenzione!
     
     Belle & Sebastian are the tawk of New Yawk this week!!!
     
     This precious collective kicked the ass of everyone who got to see 
     them at the PBS Tapings on West 54th Street and the Angel Orensanz 
     Center.  
     
     Understandably, they were visibly nervous at their first live 
     performance in the States. The audience was seated around the band 
     that consisted of 8 people, the 8th member being Mick the horn player 
     (who looked like he was about 10 years old). Stuart Murdoch leader and 
     lead vocalist is the oldest at 24 years old. He looks like an 
     androgynous, younger Richard Butler. There are 2 girls in the group 
     the violinist and Isobel the cellist (rumored to be Murdoch's 
     girlfriend).
     
     The set was very special and intimate. They performed mostly new 
     material and tracks off their import singles. During "Like Dylan In 
     The Movies" Stuart nervously forgot the words and visibly upset 
     shouted "Does anyone have our CD handy?" So who saves the day with the 
     liner notes from the album? Chris the owner of Secret Sounds record 
     shop: (htt;://www.secretsounds.com)!
     
     Belle & Sebastian was the talk of CMJ all week. Their CMJ performance 
     took place on the Lower East Side at an old synagogue with cathedral 
     architecture. It's the sculpture's Angel Orensanz' studio and 
     performance space. It was very cool. The lights reflected off the disco 
     mirror ball hung where the tabernacle should have been illuminating the 
     high cathedral ceiling. For two nights they performed to a sold out 
     room packed with fans. It was gospel.
     
     Belle & Sebastian is what it's all about. Amen.
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