The boy with the Arab Strap

Song: The boy with the Arab Strap

Band/Artist: Belle and Sebastian

Album: The Boy With the Arab Strap

Duration: 05:14

Year: 1998

Listens on Spotify: 60,000,000ish

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The boy with the Arab Strap featured on the following episodes

SF0207 The Bicentenary Poll Ep6 #25-11

2 February 2026
Ian Forth

The penultimate tranche of songs in our Listeners’ Poll 2026.

Discussing music by:: Smog; Pulp; Neutral Milk Hotel; Kraftwerk; The Lemonheads; Belle and Sebastian; David Byrne and Brian Eno; Pavement; Richard Dawson; The Go-Betweens; The Strokes; Nick Drake; The Pogues; Talking Heads; St Etienne

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SF 0006 The Sound of Young Glasgow

10 September 2017
Ian Forth

In our sixth episode we head north of the border to Glasgow. The city has an amazing track record for producing some of the best alternative music of the last 40 years, from the Jesus And Mary Chain via Belle And Sebastian to Mogwai.

Discussing music by:: Orange Juice; Aztec Camera; Simple Minds; The Jesus and Mary Chain; The Blue Nile; Belle and Sebastian; The Delgados; Camera Obscura; Franz Ferdinand; Mogwai; De Rosa; The Pastels

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