Belle & Sebastian

Elle Fanning to star in film adaptation of Stuart Murdoch's God Help the Girl

Glasgow-set musical to commence filming in June

11 Apr 2012

When Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch created God Help the Girl back in 2009, he knew that he was writing a 60s girl-group soundtrack for a film that didn't yet exist. Now, after years of fund-raising and producing, a film adaptation of the album…

Belle and Sebastian - Late Night Tales Volume 2

Eclectic mix of lush instrumentals, smoked jazz and 60s guitar interludes

22 Feb 2012

(Late Night Tales) As with being invited to perform stand-up on Letterman or to guest-host Have I Got News for You, some people might only feel vindicated in their cultural pursuit when they are asked back. And so the people behind the Late Night…

All Tomorrow's Parties: Bowlie 2 - Butlin’s Minehead, Somerset, Fri 10-Sun 12 Dec

Ten year anniversary of pioneering chalet-based holiday camp festival

11 Jan 2011

Ten years after pioneering the chalet-based holiday camp festival with their Bowlie Weekender, Belle & Sebastian have returned to the scene (not literally, because it’s now in Somerset) of one of their greatest creations with this decade-on celebration…

The Hot 100 2010 - Mark Millar, Kevin Bridges and Alasdair Gray take top 3 spots

Our annual chart of the people from Scotland being interesting, successful and creative

16 Dec 2010

The Hot 100 is a list of Scots who’ve made a sizeable creative splash in 2010. It includes musicians, artists, writers, actors, fashion designers, technological innovators, shop owners, festival directors, record label heads and one mad cyclist.

The irresistible appeal of Belle & Sebastian

We chat to the fiercely loyal fans of their distinctly Glaswegian style of sentimental, cerebral pop

15 Dec 2010

There’s something about the Belle & Sebastian fan that makes them go the extra mile and a half. Avid merch collectors, devoted gig-goers and long-term lovers of their brand of Glasgow pop, in the lull between B&S’ tenth studio album Write About Love and…

Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love

29 Sep 2010

(Rough Trade) Belle and Sebastian return, following a four-and-a-half year break. And having re-grouped in February this year, they recorded this eighth studio offering with Tony Hoffer in LA – which perhaps explains the collaborations with Hollywood…

Autumn highlights: The best albums and gigs from Scottish bands

The Phantom Band, The Twilight Sad and Errors set for action

16 Sep 2010

The Phantom Band Chemikal Underground’s finest, most eclectic and most likely signings of recent years return with the follow-up to last year’s debut Checkmate Savage. The Wants is released on Chemikal Underground, Mon 18 Oct. The Scottish…

Scottish arts news bulletin March 2010

31 Mar 2010

Photographer Rankin is to pay homage to the Scottish Highlands in upcoming book Rankin: A Photographic Essay of The Macallan Estate (£40) to be published in May this year. Rankin was commissioned in 2008 by the folks at Macallan to create a limited…

Dancing in the street

19 Nov 2009

Not for nothing is Edinburgh’s Hogmanay thought to be one of the best in the world; four days of festivities jam-packed around one of the biggest street parties in the world. Now, after a lacklustre start, it seems the names are coming thick and fast.

All Tomorrow's Parties

13 Nov 2009

(E) 83min (Warp Films) It’s been ten years since All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) began their high concept underground music happenings at the Bowlie Weekender in Camber Sands holiday camp. Since then the invited musicians of the calibre of Patti Smith…

All Tomorrow's Parties: The Film

An onscreen celebration of the alternative music institution

15 Oct 2009

A young man, at the head of a throng of people, kneels in front of a performing drummer, his hands either side of the drummer’s floor tom. The man is shouting, nay pleading with the drummer through a variety of emphatic hand gestures. Growing more…

West side story

25 Jun 2009

For decades, the West End has meant one thing to non-WEndies: Byres Road, and while that esteemed thoroughfare is still geographically pivotal, its tributary roads have formed little communities of their own, each with an increasingly distinctive…

The Amphetameanies

11 Jun 2009

SKA PUNK Cult Glasgow ska punk veterans The Amphetameanies’ line-up, past and present, includes members of Bis, Belle and Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand. Bassist Gordon Davidson refutes the suggestion that it must be frustrating being in all these…

EIFF 2009 - All Tomorrow’s Parties

11 Jun 2009

For those who count themselves among its regular crowd, the feeling is that once you’ve been to All Tomorrow’s Parties you can’t go back to just any old festival. Currently held in a Butlin’s holiday camp at Minehead, Somerset, the tri-annual weekend…

Summer festivals line-up announced

16 Apr 2009

Here at The List, we can barely take a jaunt to the water cooler without another festival announcement popping into our inbox. At the offices of T in the Park (Fri 10-Sun 12 Jul) there’s been the usual flurry of activity. One of New York’s finest…

Belle and Sebastian - The BBC Sessions

11 Dec 2008

INDIE From Tigermilk to their most recent set, The Life Pursuit (2006), Belle and Sebastian have spent a decade establishing themselves as the purveyors of sublime post-Nick Drake indie tweeness. These delightful, if not overwhelming BBC sessions…

Musicians' guide: How to make it in the music industry

27 Nov 2008

Want to make it in music? Fancy yourself as The Next Big Thing? Claire Sawers and Malcolm Jack track down nine very different people currently working in the industry and quiz them on just what they do and how they do it In addition, for detailed…

Modern Lovers

27 Nov 2008

For a club night which has been one big, glorious celebration of the retro soul, funk, psych and freakbeat sounds for eight years now, Modern Lovers has an eye on the future this fortnight. The regular monthly event in Edinburgh is both the eighth…

Belle and Sebastian Wish You Were Here

1 Oct 2008

Scotland’s favourite twee pop superstars invite you on a picture postcard tour of their home city, glorious Glasgow.

Hey You Get Off My Pavement! announces line up

8 May 2008

The best-monikered music festival in Scotland - Hey You Get Off My Pavement! - returns to Glasgow’s King’s Court on 29 June.

Isobel Campbell teams up with Mark Lanegan for second album

28 Feb 2008

Former Belle & Sebastian songstress Isobel Campbell is to join forces with the gravely vocals of Mark Lanegan (ex-Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age) for their second album of raw duets with a country edge. The new album Sunday at Devil Dirt…

Belle & Sebastian revealed as ‘Best Scottish Band of All Time'

1 Jan 2005

After a three-month public vote, Belle & Sebastian were named as the ‘Best Scottish Band Of All Time' at an exclusive Announcement Party at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow. The prestigious accolade, sponsored by Orange, was announced in front of an…