Sharp Lad Strikes Again

Luke Smith has unleashed another treasure of an article over on Old Rottenhat.

I have a minor quibble with his description of Belle & Sebastian though

"Discretely played on workplace headphones" my arse. B&S fans are like the evangelical presbyterians you find up in Coleraine or Portrush, pitching camp beside you, unfurling their messages of joy and redemption and repeating it over and over and over again, and blithely assuming that you are only getting annoyed by that whiny voice because you haven't yet accepted them as saviours. Yet. You will once you're heard the same three tracks from the album twenty or thirty more times. Maybe later they'll accede to lowering the volume, letting the instruments fade into the background chatter, but that voice will just find its way into everything, until you're driven to wearing headphones, which only encourages them to turn up their volume, driving it into your skull, again and again and again and again.