Embed and breakfast man: Belle And Sebastian

From last night's Jimmy Fallon:



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Embed and breakfast man: Belle And Sebastian

Over in Finland last week, Belle And Sebastian played a new song, I Didn't See It Coming. This is what it sounds like:



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B&S prepare new LP; Gordon Smart expecting first listen

According to Stuart Murdoch's diary, the new [not-quite a] Belle & Sebastian album is about to go for mastering:

I’m aiming to master all the “God Help The Girl” songs by the end of November. I think there are 18 of them. It’s a good feeling to think about making records. Sleeves and schedules, running orders and what not. It’s been so long since I did it that, I suspect the landscape has changed.

Do you get the same thrill when you look forward to a record coming out? I suppose I must ask the youngsters among you, because age dulls most thrills. But youngsters, where are your thrills coming from? Do you desire the sensation that is the Long Playing Record. Does pop music teach you and hold you and thrill you the way it used to? The way it did to us?

Careful, Stuart - going online and asking young people what thrills them is a little frowned on these days, you know.

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[UPDATE: Thanks to the commenter who pointed out that this isn't quite a Belle And Sebastian release]

Stuart Murdoch wants you

Belle and Sebastain are getting into musical theatre. Or, rather, they're making a film musical.

The plan is to write a few new songs, but the storyline will be punctuated by Belle & Sebby's back catalogue. You know, like Queen's We Will Rock You.

Only without Ben Elton's involvement, as far as we can tell.

Stuart Murdoch fills in some of the storyline:

Stuart said: "It happened to a boy and a girl and a girl, in a city roughly the same size and population of Glasgow. Perhaps the canals were a bit grimier, the high-rise buildings taller.

The streets emptier when you needed them to be, and the beat clubs busier than the ones around here. But on the whole the city was this one."

The romantic protagonists live next door to each other in - inevitably - neighbouring bedsits:

"The boy was kind of flexible as nobody had shown much interest in him for awhile. So he went along, prepared to teach girl two all he knew about the steel-strung acoustic guitar that he cradled.

"Girl two wanted to learn, but more than that she wanted to sing to somebody, and tell somebody about what was happening. So she attached herself to girl one and the boy."

Murdoch is hoping to find someone to play one of the girls; everything else has been cast.

I collect, I reject

The undeclared war between Mogwai and Belle & Sebby carries on. B&S auctioned their car, and may have thought their position as Weirdest Indie Online Auction champs was safe. Mogwai's Martin Bulloch has upped the stakes, though by putting his old pacemaker up to the highest bidder, in aid of the British Heart Foundation.

Yes, yes, Brett Anderson may be trying to flog his knickers for charity, but surely this is the only time you've actually been able to possess something taken from the heart of a rock star?

[Thanks to Popism for the lead on this.]

Charity news

The Electric Soft Parade are going to do a gig at Dingwalls in aide of resolution daes, a dyslexia awareness charity. They've already got support from Gomez and Belle & Sebastian, and their website has that rare thing - an interview with kevin shields