glasgow university, queen margaret’s union: I’d never been to Scotland before, let alone Glasgow. I knew about the gig a couple of months in advance and knew I’d like to see them again but… Anyway, I met this girl who … [cont…]

They sound gorgeous. There are seven of them – eight if you include the guitarist’s grinning sister, dragged onstage to hold his harmonica during their closing song. Some of them wear suits, some of them don’t. They remind me of … [cont…]

By rights, a band called Belle And Sebastian should be impossibly twee. There should be two of them, and they should coo sweetly as they marry pretty ’60s folk-pop to sentiments of inadequacy. This is what is expected. What they … [cont…]