You guys, July 12th Belle and Sebastian AND Yo La Tengo are descending upon Merriweather Post Pavillion for what I like to call “the finest show to lay on a lawn to” all summer. I’d like to use this opportunity to copy and paste this bleeding heart intro paragraph I did when I interviewed Stevie Jackson a while back:
Not to terribly age ourselves right from the start of this tale but Belle & Sebastian is a very important band to a lot of people at BYT, mainly because, I imagine, it came about at JUST THE RIGHT TIME for us for it to FEEL VERY PERSONAL. In my case, I was 15 years old when Tigermilk came about. On top of being 15 (which frankly, should be enough), I was also obscenely tall, so skinny that I used to buy jeggings which fit like normal jeans around my bony legs and spending my first year away from home in a boarding school in England, where I was (pretty painfully) reminded on a daily basis that I was not the smartest, prettiest or funniest girl around (not even close) and that wearing (weird fitting) jeggings was not cool in the slightest. But I remember hearing the first notes of “Expectations” and knowing that these were MY KIND OF PEOPLE. The second I heard it the first time, I needed to hear it once again (and with feeling) and again and again …
Tickets are $35-45 and are somehow STILL available but we also have a pair to give away. To enter to win, leave us a comment telling us which song changed YOUR LIFE (and why) and we will notify the winner by COB Monday. Cool? Cool.
