Belle & Sebastian with support from Julien Baker at Dublin’s Vicar Street. Photos by Ciara Brennan.
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Two new dates have been added to this year’s series of shows at Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens. With Fleet Foxes, Passenger and Damien Dempsey already set to play dates, it’s been announced that Baltimore’s Future Islands and Scottish indie rock heroes Belle and Sebastian (pictured) will play the annual concert series on Thursday, July 6 and Thursday, July 20 respectively. Tickets for Future Islands go on sale on January 27, whilst tickets for Belle and Sebastian go on sale on January 30. Both are priced €45.
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Nineteen years and nine albums later, Belle and Sebastian still prove to be a true testament of youth. Nearly two decades after the release of their debut album Tiger Milk, ninth studio album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance finds a sound that carries the torch of their primordial folk roots while embracing the changing tastes of an alt-oriented audience. Distributed by Matador Records, the album marks the band’s first release with the US indie label and the first with Atlanta-based producer Ben H. Allen III. Given this tenuous moment in the Glasgow group’s prolific career, the change in direction reads a…
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Scottish indie-pop band Belle and Sebastian have announced that they will release an album comprised of “rarities, collectibles and non-LP tracks from the last decade” in August. Titled The Third Eye Centre, the album – the band’s first release since their 2011 EP Come On Sister – will be released via Rough Trade and will feature remixes from the likes of Miaoux Miaoux and The Avalanches. View the album’s artwork and tracklisting below. 1. I’m A Cuckoo (Avalanches Remix) 2. Suicide Girl 3. Love On The March 4. Last Trip 5. Your Secrets 6. Your Cover’s Blown (Miaoux Miaoux Remix) 7. I…