Belle and Sebastian: Brixton Academy, London (3 April, 2002)
Tim Footman, Careless Talk Costs Lives, June 2002
THE QUEEN MOTHER has been dead for four days. I remember reading that she was a dab hand on the bongos. Belle and Sebastian have some bongos, as well as a French horn and a cello.
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