{"id":728,"date":"2006-02-01T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T08:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guyweb.co.uk\/2006\/02\/01\/belle-and-sebastian-on-the-music-show\/"},"modified":"2006-02-01T08:26:16","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T08:26:16","slug":"belle-and-sebastian-on-the-music-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/2006\/02\/01\/belle-and-sebastian-on-the-music-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Belle and Sebastian on The Music Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great features of Sky Digital is the ability to choose between the regional variations of BBC programmes. I often switch from the default of BBC Oxford to BBC South in order to follow the more Southampton specific news offering.<\/p>\n<p>Last night at 10pm I was treated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/scotland\/musicscotland\/musicshow\/\">BBC Music Scotland&#8217;s The Music Show<\/a> whilst the rest of the country had to endure Have I got News for You. Belle and Sebastian were the subject of this 30 minute special where they ran through a bunch of new tracks from their forthcoming new album &#8220;The Life Pursuit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The new material is very strong. I&#8217;m not too sure of the number occasional vocalist Stevie sang. As a general rule I prefer Stuart&#8217;s voice but Stevie&#8217;s songs usually grow on me eventually. &#8220;Wandering alone&#8221; and &#8220;Black and White United&#8221; from Storytelling have even become two of my favourite B&#038;S songs over time.<\/p>\n<p>The show had a 70s Old Grey Whistletest feel too it. Even the audience were dressed in tank-tops! I remember the band sending out a group e-mail referencing the TV show with a call to action for fans to turn up in 70s Brady bunch gear. Looks like it paid off.<\/p>\n<p>B&#038;S are certainly doing some good promo work in the lead up to the new album. They played a decent set on Radio 2 on Monday&#8217;s Mark Radcliffe Show. Stuart Murdoch also pronounced that the new Southampton-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedelays.co.uk\">Delays<\/a> song &#8220;Valentine&#8221; is the best song of the last twelve months!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, there&#8217;s a taster of a few B&#038;S tracks from The Music Show on BBC Scotland so go and have a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great features of Sky Digital is the ability to choose between the regional variations of BBC programmes. I often switch from the default of BBC Oxford to BBC South in order to follow the more Southampton specific news offering. Last night at 10pm I was treated to BBC Music Scotland&#8217;s The Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,81],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-music","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guycarberry.co.uk\/guyweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}