Sinister: Belle And Sebastian on the radio

[Nick Dastoor/BSHO/GB]

Two Belle moments on local radio in London last weekend.  First Mark Eitzel was 
on Sean Hughes' GLR show picking his favourite records of the moment.  I 
somehow half-knew he was going to pick Belle & Sebastian and sure enough it 
wasn't too long before "The Fox In The Snow" piped its pretty way through my 
little clock radio speaker.  Songs are often best heard that way.  Mr Eitzel 
said someone handed him IYFS at a concert in the US and told him he had to 
listen to it.  So he did, and he didn't like it, but then he listened again and 
now he loves it.  So: Mark Eitzel, Ian Broudie, some bloke from Travis, and 
ermm...Ben Folds.  They're taking rock aristocracy by storm.

Then yesterday, on XFM's weekly singles review show attention somehow drifted 
to Belle And Sebastian.  One of the reviewers, NME's Steve Sutherland said he 
liked some of their records but "Didn't really understand them".  He challenged 
the other two to tell him "What they were about" or something, which they  
couldn't.  And I wondered what he was on about.  Actually, I'm very pleased to 
hear that boring old Steve Sutherland is so bemused by them.  I mean I don't 
know what it was that he was expecting to understand about them, and I don't 
think I'd have much success 'explaining'  them (or any band I like for that 
matter).  Would anyone else on the list be able to tell someone like him what 
Belle and Sebastian 'are about'?

Nick

nick_dastoor.bsho at notes.compuserve.com
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