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

I've a vague idea that I picked up a free Felt flexi in Our Price, Watford - I think around Me and a Monkey ...

yeah, get out of the mirror so i can see, i think that was their farewell gift to an indifferent world

this is a bit adrift, but i picked up heidi berry's firefly a little while ago, martin duffy is all over it, i think it's from '87 and it is pretty great, very reminiscent of poem of the river in a weird lady singer songwritery way.

What are the three unique-to-CD tracks on Bubblegum Perfume? Bcuz eMusic has it, so I can just cherry pick those tracks.

Did some checking about "Goldmine Trash":
"Dismantled King" and "Sunlight Bathed" are demos unique to "Goldmine Trash". Interesting but hardly critical.
"Fortune" is the re-recorded version which originally appeared on the "Sunlight Bathed" single.

luv Goldmine Trash, as a midwestern american that LP was the only "best of"

halfway through these new answers

This is a such a great thread, I never get tired of reading about this band.

I fell in love with Lawrence when I bought Denim On Ice when it came out and for a while it was my favourite album of all time. Over the last few years I've started to enjoy Back In Denim a bit more. It seems quite split to which people prefer of the two. I love Felt more as a whole but those two albums are really up there with his very best work.

As for Felt my two favourites have always been Strange Idol Patterns and Forever breathes The Lonely Word. They both represent what was great about both eras of the band. I can never really pick which era I like more, The Deebank years had Primitive Painters but the Duffy Years gave us Space Blues. Truly one of the greatest bands I can think of.

One of the things that fascinated - and fascinates me - about Felt was the discrepancy between the quality and the quantity of the love for them. Most people I meet know nothing about them; those who do love them. That was true at the time: when they did their final tour I got my ticket for the Leeds gig as soon as it went on sale, convinced it would be a rapid sellout. In fact, there were about 50 people there.

Maybe they're one of those groups that depended on a moment of conversion to make fans - was anyone ever aware of the group for ages ad gradually fell for them, or was it always a single lightbulb moment? Was definitely the latter for me, and it's still vivid in my mind - being really miserable one teenage Saturday afternoon, and browsing in Our Price looking for something to cheer me up: I found cassette with Seven Cannons on one side and Strange Idols on the other. And when I got it home I couldn't believe something like this existed: it was the only music I'd ever heard that merited the description "courtly" - as much for Deebank's guitar as for the titles. And I loved that Lawrence's voice sounded just like mine did to me when I heard tapes of myself - awkward and out of place.

My favourite Lawrence story (I may have posted this elsewhere; if so - sorry): At one of his 90s low points, Alan McGee took pity and gave him a job as a receptionist at Creation. Unfortunately Lawrence had no knowledge of switchboard systems, or interest in gaining it. So when a call came in, he would ask the caller to hold, walk through to find whoever it was for, then bring them back to reception to either take the call there or transfer it to their own phone themselves.

Jon Lewis:
Tuesday's Secret replaces A Wave Crashed on Rocks.
Female Star replaces Declaration.
Fire Circle replaces Gather Up Your Wings and Fly.

If anyone here wants the original Bubblegum Perfume cd I'll send it to them for nothing.

I had been aware of Felt for years, heard them but Lawrence's voice didn't work for me. Then a few years back I had the strongest urge to hear "Primitive Painters" and much to my surprise I didn't have it anywhere. So I picked up the Cherry Red "Ambition" compilation and borrowed the ACM compilations from a friend. Well! At that point it all changed for me, though I still find most of the albums inconsistent vs those singles comps. But, oh, the high points are VERY high.

I'd read about Felt around the time they broke up and was intrigued by their story though not enough to pick up the records. When ACM was released a couple of years later I got that and fell in love with it, subsequently getting all the Cherry Red albums. I didn't bother looking for the later records as I figured without Deebank something had to have been lost. A while later there was the article and interview with Lawrence in Record Collector which convinced me to get Bubblegum Perfume which I found to be every bit as good as ACM, inspiring me to hunt down everything else I could find by them.

Getting BP was my lightbulb moment.

yah, for me too

Gold Mine Trash was my introduction and the gateway drug for the rest. I read about it in a copy of Q magazine (!) that I purchased whilst in the airport heading for a school exchange visit to Nurnberg, and their 4-star review piqued my interest enough to make me seek it out on my return; I bought the cassette version with a side of extra instrumentals taken from their earlier releases. The 1985 release date ties in with this so I would have been approaching 14 by the time I got hold of it. I was still pretty wet behind the ears with regards to "indie" then and settling into a deep love for The Cure, but I remember being really blown away by GMT and in fact the demo versions on there as mentioned ("Sunlight Bathed..." etc) I still regard as the definitive takes. Per ithappens post, once I'd heard Felt I loved them immediately and started buying everything by them as it came out, along with the back catalogue.

I found the Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty/The Splendour of Fear CD used at Amoeba when visiting SF, and I knew before I heard a note exactly what it would sound like, like I'd heard it in a dream. I was exactly right.

http://www.secondlanguagemusic.com/news.html

Second Language is proud to unveil two short films, recently shot by director Paul Kelly, in which Pete Astor, erstwhile Weather Prophet and Loft-leading luminary of Creation Records' initial onslaught, back in the mid-'80s, and the voice and songwriter behind the just-released Songbox (SL013), is grilled by Lawrence, of Felt, Denim and Go Kart Mozart fame.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/films/new_british_cinema/1731

AWWWW SHIT

finally!

so is he a junkie now? those pics make him look awful.

I hope not. I am looking forward to the documentary; I've been listening to a lot of Denim lately and relishing in the hardcore bitterness of the lyrics.

Hoping the new Go-Kart Mozart actually comes out this year, as I hoped in 2009 and 2010. :(

so is he a junkie now? those pics make him look awful.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, September 8, 2011 5:16 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seems like he was from 96 to about 06-08 but he now seems to be clean

Silver Plane has just hit me like a train. now number 1. sorryz forever breathes.

*Poem Of The River now number 1

any haterz can suck it imo. Ignite The Seven Cannons still kinda sucky though

^ Ignite Seven Cannons is great. "Primitive Painters" is the problem

"Problem"?! If that's the problem, don't give me the solution!

i want to hear PrimPntrs (and the rest of Ignite) without RGuthrie. he is the problem, imho.

Yes PP is they're biggest hit etc. but it's too reverbed out and five minutes too long

argh, 'their'

This is crazy talk. "Primitive Painters" is a jewel amongst jewels, both for Guthrie's production and the length of it. Hell, if it was 15 minutes long it'd still be too short!

If you say so. When I want to listen to Cocteau Twins, I put on Cocteau Twins. When I want to listen to Lawrence and co., I prefer to do so without a layer of chorused and MIDIVerb on top.

^ yes. but why would you want to listen to the Cocteau Twins?

because i have a soul

so, it would seem there is another band with the name Go Kart Mozart (note the absence of the hyphen) and what is up with THAT?
http://www.gokartmozart.com/

i mean, who seriously decides on a band name without googling it first to make sure no-one's already using it....

excited to say the least by the book:

http://www.firstthirdbooks.com/previewthebook.php

also a very nice cover of sunlight bathed the golden glow by real estate:

http://feltadeclaration.tumblr.com/

saw the movie tonight and really enjoyed it

on the hot dog streets LP in january and a mini-album a few months later

Has this been recently confirmed about the new albums? I'm sure they were definitely supposed to be coming out the end of last year. It's been too long since the last album.

lawrence gave me the above info earlier tonight

blimey, a hundred bucks to get that book sent to me? oof. and they've only reached 20% of their printing goal? whatever that means.

how many people have to order the damn thing before they can print it?

maybe i should print my own in the meantime. everyone just start their own felt fanzine. fuck the book.

I dunno, the book's 40 quid , is that extortionate? i suppose it depends on the production values . £20 overseas postage does sound a little steep though i grant you. the whole pre-order totaliser thing is a bit of tease too, it went up by 1% the day i ordered mine.

the preview makes me drool though, the photographs! the layout! it looks quite a thing to hold in your hands.

The film is getting a screening in glasgow and perhaps elsewhere, someone needs to put it on at the duke of york in brighton.

i just kinda miss the days when elaborate vanity projects were the result of someone having too much money. that way everyone won.

lawrence gave me the above info earlier tonight

― conrad

So happy about this. I still play Tearing Up The Charts a lot.

what's this film you guys speak of? the book looks great.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/20/lawrence-of-belgravia?newsfeed=true

The film was much less depressing than I thought it'd be. Lawrence seems to be on the move again. Spot on about the importance of buttons. During the Q and A section Lawrence talked about 2 new albums set for early next year release. One proper and one mini album. 30 new tracks.

Wow, that's great news. I know at least a few tracks from Denim Take Over are going to be on there (Lawrence mentioned "Robot Voice" and "Men Look at Women," plus the album title is the first line of "West Brom Blues"), but 30 songs means a lot of new stuff.

Think Denim Take Over is pretty easy to find online if anyone hasn't heard it. Bad quality though. It'll be nice to hear proper versions of these songs.

Terrific interview with Lawrence on Jarvis Cocker's 6Music show yesterday, with some talk about the film and his career, along with some excellent musical choices. Available on iPlayer until next week:

Lawrence on Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service 30/10/11

this was a good listen - was amazed when lawrence picked slapp happy and henry cow (buzz slightly harshed by jarvis saying something dumb abt 'unlistenable avant-garde rubbish' after the hc)