Tag: How To Solve Our Human Problems

  • Belle and Sebastian in Health and Safety Regulation Flaunting Shock: Live at the Troxy

    Belle and Sebastian in Health and Safety Regulation Flaunting Shock: Live at the Troxy

    Stuart Murdoch walked out intrepidly into the crowd last night during “Dear Catastrophe Waitress”. It’s a Belle and Sebastian crowd, so it’s a friendly, unthreatening and relaxed crowd, more likely to offer him a Tunnock’s Wafer than trouble. But then Murdoch ascended the Art Deco stair case and climbed over the safety railing right at…

  • Belle & Sebastian And The Horror Of Spotify Playlists. 

    Belle & Sebastian And The Horror Of Spotify Playlists. 

    In a world where people consume music through pre-determined streaming service playlists with grim titles such as “Cinematic Chillout”, “Music for Concentration” and “Songs for Sleeping”, how does a band that is already nine albums into a career spanning over twenty years grab the attention of the zombified masses?  Masses moreover, who willingly listen to…