This Spring, Belle and Sebastian will return to North America for a fresh round of shows, including stops in Detroit, Toronto, Atlanta, and beyond.
The band’s 9th album, ‘A Bit of Previous,’ was released in May and reached #8 on the UK album chart. The record was recorded in the band’s hometown of Glasgow after plans to fly to Los Angeles were scrapped due to the pandemic. Says Murdoch in the liner notes: “We did it together, us and the city. This record was the first ‘full’ LP recording for B&S in Glasgow since ‘Fold Your Hands Child’, 1999. We clocked in every morning, we played our songs, we wrote together, we tried new things, we took the proverbial lump of clay, and we threw it every day.”
The result is one the most diverse and thrilling entries in the band’s catalogue, self-produced and recorded (with Matt Wiggins and Shawn Everett co-producing specific tracks). It’s the sound of a group nearing their third collective decade with grace, irreverence, musical bravado and emerging as an endless source of energy and reinvention.
At the close of Belle and Sebastian’s summer tour, the band performed its first-ever Tiny Desk Concert on NPR. The group was also the subject of an essay by author Claire Dederer in The New York Times.
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN ON TOUR
Nov 9 – Dublin, IE @ Olympia
Nov 10 – Belfast, UK @ The Telegraph Building
Nov 13 – Cardiff, UK @ Great Hall – Student’s Union
Nov 14 – London, UK @ The Roundhouse
Nov 15 – London, UK @ The Roundhouse
Nov 17 – Sheffield, UK @ O2 Academy Sheffield
Nov 18 – Liverpool, UK @ Olympia
Nov 19 – Hull UK @ Asylum, Hull University Union
Nov 21 – Aberdeen, UK @ Beach Ballroom
Nov 23 – Edinburgh, UK @ Usher Hall
Nov 24 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK @ O2 City Hall
Nov 25 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy
Nov 27 – Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchange
Nov 28 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy Birmingham
Nov 29 – Southampton, UK @ O2 Guildhall Southampton
Nov 30 – Brighton, UK @ Brighton Dome
Dec 5 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Complejo Art Media
Dec 7 – Santiago, CL @ Fauna Primavera
Dec 9 – Sao Paulo, BR @ Audio
Dec 10 – Rio De Janiero, BR @ Circo Voador
Dec 12 – Montevideo, UY @ La Trastienda
Jan 8 – Rennes, FR @ Le Mem
Jan 10 – Paris, FR @ Casino de Paris
Jan 11 – Utrech, NL @ Tivoli Grote Zaal
Jan 13 – Luxembourg City, LU @ Den Atelier
Jan 14 – Hamburg, DE @ Laeiszhalle
Jan 16 – Gothenburg, SE @ Tradgarn
Jan 17 – Stockholm, SE @ Filadelfia
Jan 18 – Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene
Jan 19 – Copenhagen, DK @ Copenhagen Vega
Jan 21 – Berlin, DE @ Tempodrom
Jan 22 – Munich, DE @ Muffathalle
Jan 23 – Zurich, CH @ X-tra Limmathaus
Jan 25 –Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ Co-op de Mai
Jan 26 – Milan, IT @ Fabrique
Apr 24 – Guadalajara, MX @ Theatre Diana
Apr 25 – Mexico City, MX @ Metropolitan Theatre
Apr 28 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
Apr 29 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
Apr 30 – Columbus, OH @ Athenaeum Theatre
May 2 – Toronto, ON @ History
May 3 – Ottawa, ON @ Bronson Centre
May 4 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
May 5 – Ithaca, NY @ State Theatre
May 6 – New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall
May 8 – Hudson, NY @ Basilica Hudson
May 9 – Jersey City, NY @ White Eagle Hall
May 10 – Richmond, VA @ The National
May 12 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
May 13 – St. Augustine, FL @ Backyard at St. Augustine Amphitheatre
May 14 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room
May 15 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Landing
May 17 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
May 18 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
May 19 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Brewery Outdoor
