New Pornographers and Belle and Stupid Sebastian? Dammit!

The Matador Records website announced a New Pornographers / Belle and Sebastian tour last week and we can't say we're ecstatic about the pairing. Sure, we went through a very brief B&S phase at one point a few years ago. We're not proud of it, but we can admit it. Finally. And we suppose that we can see what Matador is trying to do. Twin Cinema is an excellent attempt at a great album and due to our relative proximity to British Columbia we're very aware of that, as a region. Probably we're in the minority, nationally, though, and we suspect that Matador thinks it should be selling a lot better than it is. And they'd be right. So attach the Pornographers to the warhorse of their stable, the cash cow, the begging-craigslist-for-tickets, probably-playing-the-Paramount band and see what kind of exposure they can get. We're just not sure that fans of the one can necessarily be cross pollinanted into being fans of the other.

Moreover, there're plenty of other Matador bands we'd rather go see. Pretty Girls Make Graves probably makes too much geographic sense, but we'd definitely dig that. How about Malkmus? He's a big song crafter-type whose massive audience could probably be goaded into picking up some New Pornographer merch. Maybe Spoon for the same reason. Maybe Mogwai for no reason other than the fact that Seattlest is a fan of both bands. Maybe the suddenly silent Interpol? Shit, anyone but Belle and Sebastian. Dates and venues have not been announced but it should be sometime in "early '06". We're guessing March, 4.