The Loneliness of an NPR Interviewee
If you’re a big fan of Belle & Sebastian (I am), you might be interested in this long interview with Stuart Murdoch on NPR on Monday. Make no mistake, Terry Gross is a douchetard—she asks the guy about 25 different times about chronic fatigue syndrome and almost no good questions about his music—but it’s worth listening to simply for the fact that it’s unusual. Murdoch famously doesn’t do interviews. He turned down The Stranger.
The band is touring America right now with The Life Pursuit, and the Seattle show—March 25 at the Paramount—is sold out, but NPR (I love you, NPR!) has a concert they just did in Washington, DC here. Here’s the set list:
Expectations
Another Sunny Day
Women’s Realm
Sukie in the Graveyard
Electric Renaissance
The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
To Be Myself Completely
The Blues Are Still Blue
Piazza, New York Catcher
Belle and Sebastian
Funny Little Frog
She’s Losing It
Your Cover’s Blown
Dog On Wheels
I’m A Cuckoo
The Wrong Girl
If You Find Yourself Caught in Love
Judy and the Dream of Horses
White Collar Boy
Me and the Major
Plus, at one point, Murdoch sings a couple bars of the Pet Shop Boys’s “It’s a Sin,” a capella.
[I should mention that “douchetard” is not my word; it’s Sean Nelson’s. You are brilliant, Sean Nelson.]
That's incredible, that NPR has a recording of a concert that hasn't taken place yet.