Belle & Sebastian have just released the video for their latest single “Nobody’s Empire”.
The single is the opening track from the group’s forthcoming album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, and Stuart Murdoch says of the song, “it’s absolutely the most personal [song] I’ve ever written.”
The video for “Nobody’s Empire” combines footage from the album cover shoot – with cover model, actor Tamzin Merchant, taking on the role of Stuart Murdoch in this tale of Murdoch’s health problems as a younger man – with over 100 clips received from Belle and Sebastian fans, as well as archival clips from the Scottish Screen Archive at the National Library Of Scotland and the Prelinger Archives.
Girls In Peacetime Want to Dance will be released on 19th January, 2015, on Matador.
Belle and Sebastian 2015 Tour Dates:
May 3 – St. David’s, Cardiff
May 4 – Colston Hall, Bristol
May 5 – Guildhall, Portsmouth
May 7 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge
May 8 – Open, Norwich
May 10 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham
May 11 – Central Hall Westminster, LONDON
May 12 – Central Hall Westminster, LONDON
May 15 – Albert Hall, Manchester
May 14 – Albert Hall, Manchester
May 16 – City Hall, Newcastle
May 18 – Opera House, Buxton
May 19 – City Hall, Leeds
May 22 – Hydro Arena, Glasgow (with the Scottish Festival Orchestra)
May 24 –Sound City, Liverpool, England