Belle and Sebastian were formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1996 by Stuart Murdoch and Stuart David. Together, with Stow College music professor Alan Rankine, they recorded some demos, which were picked up by the college 's Music Business course that produces and releases one single each year on the college 's label, Electric Honey. As the band had a number of songs already and the label was extremely impressed with the demos, Belle and Sebastian were allowed to record a full - length album, which was titled Tigermilk. Murdoch once described the band as a "product of botched capitalism ''. The band took their name from the television adaptation of the French novel Belle et Sébastien.
where did the name belle and sebastian come from
the television adaptation of the French novel Belle et Sébastien