<P> 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 . </P>
where did the name belle and sebastian come from
the television adaptation of the French novel Belle et Sébastien