Friday, November 11, 2005

Belle & Sebastian: New Album In 2006 / Music Show online / 2006 Tour Dates Update

New Album

It's been widely reported and everybody probably knows anyway, but for those who haven't noticed, Belle & Sebastian have a new album out on February 6th. It's called "The Life Pursuit" and it has 13 songs on it.

Like "Dear Catastrophe Waitress" it'll be released by Rough Trade Records in UK and Europe, Toshiba in Japan, Spunk in Australia etc etc. Interestingly though, "The Life Pursuit" marks the return of B&S to Matador Records for North and Central America. Matador, of course, released all B&S records from "If You're Feeling To Sinister" to "Storytelling" (and "Push Barman..."), before the band signed to Rough Trade.We missed each other though and have decided to come together once more.

Belle & Sebastian on The Music Show

You can view a clip from the B&S special filmed for BBC Scotland's The Music Show online now by going here. More news on when the B&S special will air when we have it ... ...

2006 Tour Dates

Details of all Belle & Sebastian's tour dates confirmed forthcoming shows with ticket information are listed below. As soon as any further gigs are confirmed, they will appear here, and the details will be announced to the Belle & Sebastian Mailing List.

A lot of you have been asking when we'll be touring in various places, please find the first lot of 2006 dates below for the UK and Ireland. Needless to say, we'll have details of worldwide tours fairly soon, it's all happening though ...

January 2006
January 15th GLASGOW, ABC
January 16th GLASGOW, ABC
January 17th GLASGOW, ABC
January 18th ABERDEEN, Music Hall
January 26th BIRMINGHAM, Academy
January 27th LIVERPOOL, Academy
January 28th NEWCASTLE, Academy
January 29th MANCHESTER, Ritz
January 30th MANCHESTER, Ritz

February 2006
February 1st BRISTOL, Colston Hall
February 2nd CAMBRIDGE, Corn Exchange
February 3rd BRIGHTON, Dome
February 5th DUBLIN, Ambassador
February 7th BELFAST, Ulster Hall
February 9th SHEFFIELD, Octagon
February 10th LONDON, Hammersmith Apollo

The band have another date for the Ritz in Manchester on sale now, as the first one sold out so quickly! The second show is on January 30th and you can buy tickets now, just follow the links off the Belle & Sebastian website.

source: . Belle & Sebastian website

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