The BBC Sessions

Selecting from radio performances recorded between 1996 and 2001, including a set for the legendary John Peel, The BBC Sessions offers an appealing alternate portrait of Belle and Sebastian in their more ramshackle early days.

The big draw of Belle And Sebastian's double CD The BBC Sessions—the first disc collects three full sessions of four or five songs, recorded between 1996 and 2001 for the BBC, plus a song from an unfinished session; the second disc features a full concert recorded in Belfast—is that one of the segments, recorded for…

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Belle and Sebastian cut their first BBC session for the Mark Radcliffe Show in July of 1996 just a few months before their seminal If You're Feeling Sinister album was released.

Belle and Sebastian have not been shy about compiling and re-releasing early material.