Saturday, Jun 18, 2022
Belle and Sebastian
A Bit of Previous
- Date
- Saturday, Jun 18, 2022
- Venue
- Roadrunner
- City
- Boston, MA
- Went with
- Becky
The A Bit of Previous tour, in Roadrunner's first summer as a venue. John's first of two Belle and Sebastian shows — he saw them again at the Orpheum in 2024. No ticket survives; setlist.fm documents the night.
What they played
- Dog on Wheels
- Another Sunny Day
- Unnecessary Drama
- Young and Stupid
- The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
- The Boy With the Arab Strap
- I Want the World to Stop
- Chickfactor
- Reclaim the Night
- Stay Loose
- Nobody's Empire
- Your Cover's Blown Snippet
- Jonathan David with audience member dancing with Stuart
- If She Wants Me
- The Fox in the Snow
- Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
- Judy and the Dream of Horses
Encore
- String Bean Jean Snippet
- The State I Am In
- The Blues Are Still Blue
20 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
The moment
A Bit of Previous was Belle and Sebastian's first proper album in seven years, and the 2022 tour brought out something the twee-legend caricature never captured: three decades in, the Glasgow miserablists had quietly become one of the most joyful live bands working, all disco moves and crowd invasions. Roadrunner was months old and enormous; 'The Boy with the Arab Strap' filled it anyway. With Becky — and two years later, at the Orpheum, they'd both go back for more.
From the time
- A Bit of Previous
“The 2022 album — first in seven years — that put the great Glasgow institution back on the road.”
The stub
No physical stub on file — this show was reconstructed from the
confirmation email. Drop a photo in public/stubs/ and add
"stubImage" to this show's record to attach one.