Belle & Sebastian - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1997-1998

Here's the next in my long series of albums featuring Belle and Sebastian at the BBC.

This one is fairly short, at only 37 minutes. But the band didn't return to the BBC studios until 2001, so this is all that fits. (They did have one concert broadcast by the BBC in 1999, and that'll be the subject of the next volume.)

The first five songs come from the same BBC session in 1997, and are all included on the official album "The BBC Sessions." The remaining four are actually from a studio session in front of an audience for Radio France in 1998. They're officially unreleased. But they're BBC tracks too, because these four were broadcast on the BBC as well. The rest of the session was not, but it can be found on a bootleg called "The Black Session."

01 Seymour Stein (Belle & Sebastian)
02 Lazy Line Painter Jane (Belle & Sebastian)
03 Sleep the Clock Around (Belle & Sebastian)
04 Slow Graffiti (Belle & Sebastian)
05 Wrong Love [The Wrong Girl] (Belle & Sebastian)
06 The Boy Done Wrong Again (Belle & Sebastian)
07 Dog on Wheels (Belle & Sebastian)
08 Seeing Other People (Belle & Sebastian)
09 A Century of Fakers (Belle & Sebastian)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15602009/BellenS_1997-1998_BBSessionsVolume2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from a concert in New York City in September 1997. I would have liked to include more band members, but good photos of that are typically few and far between since there are lots of band members apart from each other on stage. This one has Stuart Murdoch in the foreground and Isobell Campbell in the background. Campbell was much smaller and more distant, so I used Photoshop to increase her size and move her closer to Murdoch.