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[Laura Llew]

Atlanta Setlist:

Expectations
Step Into My Office, Baby
Wrapped Up In Books
Lord Anthony
I'm A Cuckoo
Women's Realm
Travelling Light (which is *not* on the album, though it was on advance 
promo copies. At the Durham show they announced it as a "Future B-Side.)
Beautiful
You're Just A Baby
An instrumental from Mick Cooke which sounded like a surf tune
The Stars Of Track and Field
You Don't Send Me
Asleep On A Sunbeam
String Bean Jean
If You Find Yourself Caught In Love
Dog On Wheels
Judy and The Dream of Horses
Roy Walker
Sleep The Clock Around
Encore: Get me away from here, i'm dying

I wrote down the Durham setlist but now I can't find it so perhaps someone 
else will come through with that. It was a lot more similar to their first 
show which was kind of disappointing (as in the past they've been fairly 
different). They played Dirty Dream #2 instead of String Bean Jean, Slow 
Graffitti instead of Lord Anthony, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Mike Piazza, 
and then She's Just A Baby For The Encore. Instead of Mick Cooke's 
instrumental, they had a guy from the audience come up and sing Like Dylan 
In The Movies which was the most comical Belle & Sebastian moment which I've 
ever experienced. He looked as if any moment he was going to dive off of the 
stage into the audience to crowd surf. Afterwards, Chris Geddes admitted 
that he meant that he had wanted someone from the audience to come up and 
sing a NON b&s song - like the Rolling Stones. At which point the audience 
tried to get Beans to sing a non B&S song. It didn't happen. He only teased 
us about how the only song he knew was "Santa Goes To The Ghetto." It was 
again requested when there were technical difficulties with the drum set but 
alas we were denied once again.

At the Atlanta show there were a lot of requests for "Pocketbook Angels" and 
later Stuart Murdoch said those who shouted out for it were "cheeky devils". 
He then seemed kind of bitter that his own record label would release a 
bootleg of it and said something to the effect that now they're never going 
to release it.

Slumber Party opened both nights and weren't so fantastic. The drummer 
looked as if she were auditioning for a part in Lost In Translation. You 
could almost see her muttering, "I'm lost. I'm confused. What's the point in 
- snare to the top hat to the drum - life?" The lead singer has to be a 
former president of her high school's Future Christian Athletes club who 
makes her own shirts and the bass player looked as if she was about to ditch 
her girls at any second to break out into some angry Sleater Kinneyesque 
stylings. If that ensemble weren't depressing enough, the lameness of their 
lyrics pushed them over the edge:

Me: Did she just sing, "At night, I like to go to bed"?
Jay: Well, ya know, some people do.

I kept wishing we could just tuck them in already and call it quits.

However, then Belle and Sebby came on and they were fantastic. A lot better 
than when I've seen them previously even though there were a couple of 
technical difficulties at each show. At the Atlanta show, Stuart said that 
he could hear a radio station coming through and there was a woman with a 
breathy voice singing so he was going to then sing the next song in his 
imitation of her. (I believe it was Stars of Track & Field). Very funny. He 
also didn't do a request shouted out because he said he was having trouble 
with his throat and so wasn't doing some of the songs which required him to 
break out the high voice. However, they played Slow Graffiti at Durham and 
it was absolutely beautiful. It alone made the show.

Massive thanks to both Jays for letting me crash at their place and for 
going to the show, even if Jayward ditched me for an indie scarf wearing 
skank and left me to watch the show alone while standing next to a couple of 
girls who mistook convulsing spastically for dancing and behind a lass who 
mistook a cloche as something which should be worn with a zebra print design 
and made her look like Encyclopedia Brown. He's still the most darling boy 
ever.

GayJay was a complete doll and let me sit in on the interview that he did 
with part of the band which was so much fun. We were hoping to get to talk 
to them for about 15 minutes but we chatted with Richard Colburn for close 
to an hour (though only 17 minutes of that was recorded) and it was the only 
interview they did. It was aired unedited last night on WXDU 
(http://www.wxdu.org/). I have to wonder if you can hear me choking in the 
background when Jay asked about why there are no masturbation references in 
the latest releases. Richard Colburn is so adorable though. How did I not 
notice him before? He's so nice and gingery.

Um, the meatup was a lot of fun as well even though there was more meat than 
meet. Lots of Chapel Hill hipsters but not so many sinisters. It was a cozy 
little cookout and seemed very suburban - I felt as if I should be there 
with my husband named Mitch or something. I missed Damon but otherwise it 
ruled - and not just because I ended up back in Jay's bedroom with a cute 
boy named Ben and a copy of The Basic Eight either.

xo,
Ll

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