Maybe Belle & Sebastian might be able to enter the Eurovision for Scotland in a few years, you never know. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone Stuart Murdoch confirmed they’ll start recording a new album in March, and it could be inspired by the Cyprus entry in 1974 (was that ‘My Lovely Horse’?). A wonderful concept, and we’ll leave it in their capable hands. Something to look forward to…

“We’ve been writing in Glasgow and we will start the record in March. I hope it will be out by autumn. If not, we will have failed. One of the things I wanted to explore – this might seem a bit facetious, but we have this thing called a Eurovision Song Contest. For example, ABBA won in 1974, and that’s how they got their big break. And that was really the last great song from Eurovision. Since then it’s been kind of a train wreck, but it gives you a window into every little country, and it’s the only time that Europe gets together for this big party, and now, especially now, we have all the Russian block, eastern bloc countries, it’s all shifted to the East.”

“I remember saying to the band, I want to do an album that one song feels like it could be the Cyprus entry for 1974. And then next song would be the German entry for 1989, or something like that. You might not see that in the finished songs, but somewhere that’s been an inspiration.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTrf14ygrc