From the band's offical website
Australian Tour Rumours
2003-11-13
Please note that any dates that you may have seen for Belle & Sebastian playing in Australia in February 2004 are just rumours and the band will not be going to Oz after the Japanese dates. We're sorry for any inconvenience caused!
http://www.belleandsebastian.com/news.php fuckfuckfuckno
this better not be true