FELT (Go Kart Mozart, Denim)... Lawrence is amazing!

i still haven't gotten my felt tattoo. but i still wanna do it. just gotta wait for the right time.

Lawrence talks to Girls.

Oh my god! I've been obsessed with Lawrence for about 14 years but I've never heard him be interviewed before. He's so awkward and sweet, it just made me love him even more.

One day someone will write about a book about his life and he will finally get the recognition he deserves.

You should read the book 'Song Man' by Will Hodgkinson.

We're currently working on a Felt/Lawrence fanzine, due out early this spring - the release will be announced on our blog at http://foxtrotecholimatango.blogspot.com.

At the moment contents include essays, memoirs (reliable and unreliable), portraits of Lawrence, unanswered emails, previously unseen photographs, a Felt family tree, tour posters and other more oblique offerings!

xpost, the lawrence parts of the 'song man' book are pretty depressing. he's sort of a wreck in there, attending NA meetings, on the verge of eviction, still dreaming about writing his #1 hit though. it was written in 2007 so maybe he's in a better situation now.

(oddly enough i just mentioned that book on a different thread i just started up)

Foxtrot, I have some photos that I took at Felt's last ever show at Burberry's in Birmingham that I can mail you or share online if yr interested. They used to be on Rui's old Felt tribute site but that doesn't seem to be getting updated these days - good on you for keeping the torches burning.

Hey Bill, nice to meet you.
That sounds well exciting! Maybe you could sent them to us?
Would be highly aprecciated, of course.

At one particular lowpoint in the 90s, Lawrence was hired by McGee to be Creation's receptionist. The only problem was that he didn't know how to work the phones, and whenever a call needed to be transferred, he had to get up from this desk, walk to whoever the call was for and ask them to come back and put the call through to their own phone (at least, that's what a Creation staffer of the time told me). The arrangement didn't last long.

Just to let you know that we have the fanzine now.
For more information, you might go to
http://foxtrotecholimatango.blogspot.com/
Also, Rui's Felt Tribute Site has been relaunched:
http://felt-tribute.webs.com/default.htm
Exciting times, isn't it!

It looks cool and that's a pretty impressive list of contributors. Congrats. Good to see on Rui's site that the new Go-Kart Mozart album is still scheduled for this year!

Is this Lawrence Of Belgravia film ever going to come out?

This year apparently.

They've been saying that since at least 2008.

if i'm not in it, then that fanzine has no credibility. i'm his number one fan!

i will pick up the fanzine, looks awes.

this is the best interview with lawrence online i reckon: http://felt.planetaclix.pt/Articles/interview.htm

goes into quite a lot of detail, lawrence talks about every felt release.

That was from Record Collector originally, and is indeed one of the most straight-forward interviews he's done.

yeah, posted online i mean

Great to see there's some interest!
The fanzine features interviews with Lawrence too.
One from 1985 by Chris Heath, another one from 2005 by Alistair Fitchett. Both seriously long and revealing.

ne more deets on the film release?

i put it in my top five films of 2008 in an important film magazine

saw it on the night of the US electch iirc

was that the full film or the work-in-progress version?

the fanzine looks excellent - will def be placing an order.

just a w.i.p.

I can't believe it's been five years since he's put anything else out. I heard rumours of a new Go-Kart album but this was four years ago. Will Denim Take Over ever see release? Also didn't he once mention a solo album influenced by Lou Reed's Berlin?

I could just do with some new material from him right now.

Also didn't he once mention a solo album influenced by Lou Reed's Berlin?

"Bilston"

Aloha all,

"Hey - do you like American rock?
Have you ever hidden behind internet curtains?
Can we mostly find you in the Middle of the Road?

See you at the Rocket Cottage Radio Roadshow - a semi-live performance tribute to Lawrence of Belgravia at the Betsey Trotwood, Friday 6th August, doors 7pm...

...Now yer talkin'!

Another show to celebrate the release of Foxtrot Echo Lima Tango - the Lawrence tribute book from German artist Christian Flamm. Live performance from the Rocket Cottage Radio Roadshow

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121633144549695&ref=mf
http://foxtrotecholimatango.blogspot.com/

ayo is there any news on 'lawrence of belgravia'?

In 1987 promotional opportunities for an 'Indie' group were few and far between. So when Felt were offered to appear on a Newcastle commercial radio station to promote a show that evening at the Riverside venue in town the group couldn't really refuse - even when they arrived to find that the DJ host had almost no knowledge of the group's background history, not even one of their records to play, couldn't pronounce their name correctly ("The Felt") and seemed to be from the hyper, had-too-many Refreshers Timmy Mallett school of presenting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzqSqFVHCjI

http://felt-tribute.webs.com/images/mojo2010.jpg

This article has made my day.

says 'lawrence of belgravia' will be on at the LFF, but apparently it... isn't :(

great news about the reissues though!

I’m against the ‘00s I don’t care what you say
I’m against the ‘00s you don’t listen to me anyway
well I’m for the ‘90s –oh- and for the ‘10s too
yeah I’m against the ‘00s girl look what they’ve done to you

I made a new sound and they put it underground
it was a thunderbolt crash they said it’s never going to last in the ‘00s

we’re victims of the ‘00s yeah you and me girl
deflated by the ‘00s getting caught up in its social whirl
you should have seen me in the ‘90s I was different then
oh but those times have gone and they ain’t never coming back again

so I formed myself a band and I toured it ‘round the land
I took a look around there was nothing going down in the ‘00s

remember in the ‘90s when we were at school
hangin’ out with the older boys bending all the little rules
remember in the ’93 yeah you and me
in a little wood leaning up against the tree

if the truth’s to be told then we were 12 years old
they say crime doesn’t pay but it surely did that day in the ‘90s,
yeah yeahyeah

I’m against the ‘00s duran duran
fake make-up boys the rum-runner clan
I knew you when you were at school you were nothing then
and when you left the band you were nothing again
you bought yourself a farm and you looked about as calm
as a man who’s going to freak ‘cause an earthquake’s hit his street in the ‘00s

well I’m against the ‘00s bands that couldn’t play
I’m against the ‘00s singers with nothing to say
you heard it on the radio you saw it on the tv
you still went and bought it thought – aah it amazes me

you wouldn’t know know style if it ran you up the aisle
you couldn’t spot a star if he came within a mile of the ‘00s

I’m looking forward to the ‘10s yeah I’ve got a new girl
we’re into ravesignal III ‘cos “we’re in love with the modern world”
I’m sick of winklepicker kids mary chain debris
I’ve just had enough of that nah it doesn’t interest me

I’ve made a new sound this ain’t going underground
it’s a thunderbolt crash concerns the future and the past
but not the ‘00s no not the ‘00s we’re talkin' 'bout the ‘00s.

i want that t-shirt!

x-posts

I want that shirt as well.

didn't realise he'd been in a bad way. what's the story anyone know? i hope he gets some money out of it this time. can't see it mind.

he was living on bennies in belgravia, and on some kind of drugs [government drugs, to help him off smack, or so it looked] when the doc was filmed, hence the title

I hope he tours the US doing Felt material. Fingers crossed.

ive only this year started listening to a LOT of felt, and tbh, i wish id had a little more time to quietly invest in the whole lawrence oeuvre before reissue fever struck (followed by blog fever). i know that's dumb, and like i wasnt alive when the first record came out, and who cares what is popular anyway, but like, it's fun to not have everything be reissued! the thrill of real discovery!

but also i always get cranky about everything between 4 and 6pm.

it's fun to not have everything be reissued! the thrill of real discovery!

That was the 20th century, my friend. But your point is well taken, and if you can restrain yourself you can still feel that thrill.

yeah, im feelin better.

I am so glad to hear he's doing well these days, I didn't realise he was in such a bad way. I'm really looking forward to hearing the new albums, it's been way too long since his last album. The thought of him doing big pop songs aimed at the charts makes me a little giddy.

It would be great to see him live, he's one of the few people I absolutely love that I've never managed to see.

For those still interested in things:
we have made a couple more copies of the fanzine now.
You can get them here
http://foxtrotecholimatango.blogspot.com
Also, there was a short article about Brit Pop band Denim in last friday's Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/21/denim-britpop-band

I'm not missing out this time - ordered, and thanks for the heads up F.E.L.T.

ordered mine as soon as the email showed up a couple weeks ago!

just ordered one too... kicked myself for missing out last time..