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

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!

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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..

Glad i came back here.
Hope you'll like the book!

Received the book on Friday and all I can say is that if you are in any way a fan of Felt then you owe it to yourself to buy it. From the design, to the photos, to the essays and interviews, it's front-to-back superb. Clearly a total labour of love as well, the editors Christian and Mike should be rightly proud.

this^^^

got mine today, but my fingers are too greasy from banh mi to feel okay touching it yet hahaha

forever breathes the pictorial greasy bahn mi jackson

omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJqV5pDxHA

Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

That clip of Lawrence on The One Show is amazing, my friend text me about it but I was too late to catch it.

Also I would do anything for one of those yellow vinyls of Summer Smash they showed.

whuuuuuuuut

is that gyles 'thatcher' brandreth with lawrence?

Much as I love them/him, I am kinda bored of the eternal narrative of how supposedly Denim would've been huge if it hadn't been for their goddam BAD LUCK with record labels going bust or records getting indiscriminately banned etc. etc. ad nauseum.

I realise that in the clip above they do not particularly stress this but it seems that the banning of Summer Smash has become the go-to background detail for a band who never had a steady line-up, tried to make a gimmick out of being elderly, never fucking toured, made three records in ten years (frequently missing the advertised release date by months if not years), never released a single that wasn't on an album and had a penniless manic depressive with serious drug issues as their main man. I think there's more to their lack of commercial success than "bad luck".

This article is probably the pinnacle of this kind of thing

Totally with you there.

love his hat but loz looks like absolute shit these days