Patrick
11-27-2005, 07:43 PM
The title says it all... on December 6 we'll be releasing a live concert of the entire album 'If You're Feeling Sinister' via iTunes exclusively.
The album was recorded at the Barbican in London as part of an ATP series this past September where artists performed an entire album live. (Cat Power did 'The Covers Record.')
All proceeds to benefit victims of the earthquake in Pakistan and India.
Full press release below.
Best
Patrick
P.S. In Europe and the rest of the world bar Canada and Mexico it'll be on Rough Trade. Release date is the same.
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Belle and Sebastian play
‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’
(Live at The Barbican London
Sun 25th Sept 2005)
Download-only charity album
Released on iTunes Dec 6
Matador (North America), Rough Trade (Rest of world)
September 25th 2005 saw the staging of one of the highlights of All Tomorrow’s Parties celebrated Don’t Look Back series of concerts at the Barbican Centre – wherein a hand-picked selection of bands take one of their seminal works and play it through from start to finish.
Beginning with ‘Stars of Track and Field’ and ending three-quarters-of-an-hour later with the ebullient ‘Judy and the Dream of Horses’ (replete with dancing in the aisles), Belle and Sebastian performed their classic second album, ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’, in its entirety for the first and most likely only time.
Fortunately for those not there – and there were many since the Barbican sold out in a matter of hours - the show was recorded for posterity and is now being available as a special download-only album, through iTunes, on December 6th, with all proceeds to be donated to the DEC Asia Quake Appeal.
On the night, augmented by additional string players, the Belles delivered a sterling performance, easily eclipsing anything the still-nascent band might have mustered nine years earlier on the record’s original release.
“Good tunes, badly played,” is how one band insider describes the original album. “It was an album the band were never happy with, and they viewed it as a chance to get it right.”
Despite these short-comings, ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ is the Belle and Sebastian album of choice for a certain kind of cute cognescenti, and is within “a bawhair” of being their biggest selling album (48 “units” behind ‘The Boy With Arab Strap’ in America!)
‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’:-
Stars of Track and Field
Seeing Other People
Me and the Major
Like Dylan in the Movies
The Fox in the Snow
Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
If You’re Feeling Sinister
Mayfly
The Boy Done Wrong Again
Judy and the Dream of Horses
Here’s a line or two from the original sleeve notes to let you know where the Belles’ own callow and befuddled heads were in those halcyon days of 1996: “Belle and Sebastian were the product of botched capitalism. It would be nice to say they were the children of socialism, but it would be a fib. They rolled together as loose change is bound to. Change in the pocket of some fat civil servant. Who thought up Youth Training to make his boss look good. Who pokled the figures to make her boss look good. Who slept with a prostitute for credibility. We take our hats off to them all.”
The release of this live version of “Sinister” precedes the arrival of the Belles’ 7th studio album, “The Life Pursuit”, due Feb 6 2006.
The album was recorded at the Barbican in London as part of an ATP series this past September where artists performed an entire album live. (Cat Power did 'The Covers Record.')
All proceeds to benefit victims of the earthquake in Pakistan and India.
Full press release below.
Best
Patrick
P.S. In Europe and the rest of the world bar Canada and Mexico it'll be on Rough Trade. Release date is the same.
=================
Belle and Sebastian play
‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’
(Live at The Barbican London
Sun 25th Sept 2005)
Download-only charity album
Released on iTunes Dec 6
Matador (North America), Rough Trade (Rest of world)
September 25th 2005 saw the staging of one of the highlights of All Tomorrow’s Parties celebrated Don’t Look Back series of concerts at the Barbican Centre – wherein a hand-picked selection of bands take one of their seminal works and play it through from start to finish.
Beginning with ‘Stars of Track and Field’ and ending three-quarters-of-an-hour later with the ebullient ‘Judy and the Dream of Horses’ (replete with dancing in the aisles), Belle and Sebastian performed their classic second album, ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’, in its entirety for the first and most likely only time.
Fortunately for those not there – and there were many since the Barbican sold out in a matter of hours - the show was recorded for posterity and is now being available as a special download-only album, through iTunes, on December 6th, with all proceeds to be donated to the DEC Asia Quake Appeal.
On the night, augmented by additional string players, the Belles delivered a sterling performance, easily eclipsing anything the still-nascent band might have mustered nine years earlier on the record’s original release.
“Good tunes, badly played,” is how one band insider describes the original album. “It was an album the band were never happy with, and they viewed it as a chance to get it right.”
Despite these short-comings, ‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’ is the Belle and Sebastian album of choice for a certain kind of cute cognescenti, and is within “a bawhair” of being their biggest selling album (48 “units” behind ‘The Boy With Arab Strap’ in America!)
‘If You’re Feeling Sinister’:-
Stars of Track and Field
Seeing Other People
Me and the Major
Like Dylan in the Movies
The Fox in the Snow
Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
If You’re Feeling Sinister
Mayfly
The Boy Done Wrong Again
Judy and the Dream of Horses
Here’s a line or two from the original sleeve notes to let you know where the Belles’ own callow and befuddled heads were in those halcyon days of 1996: “Belle and Sebastian were the product of botched capitalism. It would be nice to say they were the children of socialism, but it would be a fib. They rolled together as loose change is bound to. Change in the pocket of some fat civil servant. Who thought up Youth Training to make his boss look good. Who pokled the figures to make her boss look good. Who slept with a prostitute for credibility. We take our hats off to them all.”
The release of this live version of “Sinister” precedes the arrival of the Belles’ 7th studio album, “The Life Pursuit”, due Feb 6 2006.