Belle & Sebastian, a Scottish indie-pop band based in and around the city of Glasgow, formed in 1996 by Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David and recorded their first album, Tigermilk, at Stow College in Glasgow. Their most current release, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, is the band’s sixth full-length.
The name Belle and Sebastian is taken from the novel “Belle et Sebastien” by French author Cecile Aubry, about a boy Sebastien and his Pyrenees mountain dog Belle. The book was turned into a popular children’s television show in France and then around the world in the early 1970s. The name bears no particular reference to the band or any of the members.
The band are notorious for their lack of publicity in the music press and seldom do interviews, a fact that may have prevented them from becoming much more popular.