Belle and Sebastian

Scotland's Belle and Sebastian were one of indie rock's most celebrated groups during the 1990s and 2000s. Critics applauded the band's soft, unobtrusive folk rock, while fans connected with the group's lyrics, which perfectly capture a misfit's confusion and pain. Notorious for their media-shyness —they often use snapshots of friends for press photos, while reluctant frontman Stuart Murdoch refused to conduct interviews until 2000 —Belle and Sebastian have nevertheless achieved a surprising amount of commercial success, particularly in the U.K.




Belle and Sebastian rely largly on narrative for most of the music videos, being such a conservative group the production of a music video to accompany one of their pieces is actually quite uncommon and with that when they do come to make a video counterpart they are usually extremely basic in the form of pure narrative.

Through using this type of production there are certain advantages and disadvantages which we could relate to our band and the production we intend to make.
Firstly the fact that they disregard the need for live preformance, in many ways this helps the viewers of the video relate to the lyrics on a more emotional basis but this is entirely to the video and there is no such way to relate back to the band.

Through not using live preformance the audience may become to involved with the lyrics and begin reading into it like a book wheras the band would much rather they listen to the mucis for the music, with the story providing an emotional foundation for the audience to realate to on a much smaller level.

In summary for this group they use certain features that prove to be beneficial to the overall relationship between the audience and the song but I feel there is just that missing link between the band, the song and ultimately the audience which is key and has been excluded through the lack of live preformance.