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

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)

Plus Lawrence said the track was from 1973, sort of stuff that annoys a pedant like me... and two tracks from the same album too, not a Slapp Happy track and then a Henry Cow track. Win track he played was really good.

yeah i think lawrence actually said he'd got into slapp happy last week or something, which is quite funny in itself.

Just remembered him saying his favourite bands of the 80s were Win and Sudden Sway, :)

Just listening to this now. Such a pleasure, it's really funny as well.

he's very smart/sharp/with it. not at all addled or what have you. not that i thought that he was, but i still think some people like to see him as some sort of outsider/weirdo and he's really not. the only big surprise for me is the tom waits fandom. wouldn't peg him as a fan, but what do i know. never heard Win before despite the fact that i enjoy the fire engines. listened to other stuff on youtube and its possible that they are, um, still to futuristic for me. though i was a fan of prefab sprout and abc when they went bonkers in a future-pop sorta way. and the undertones. and lots of other formerly more serious brit bands.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/live/video/804

whats that third film he mentions? Pichoult? it rings a bell dimly but i can't place it. i like the story of lawrence dragging phil king along to a screening of 3 women at birmingham uni, on the same visit as the famous pork pie/multi story carpark incident, Phil King had the romantic notion that lawrence inhabited a demi monde of arty sophisticates, but nah, it's just lawrence, weirdy robert altman films, pork pies and the bull ring centre.

pixote?

i found that go kart mozart band (they are in california) last year sometime too; I saw go kart mozart was playing somewhere and was like WTF. and then disappointment. I think I sent them a snide and nasty email they never responded to.

Could anyone upload Denim Take Over, please? And did the b-sides for Summer Smash ever leak?

I found Denim Take Over and the b-sides for Summer Smash here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/3vjd9j

However, the sound quality of Denim Take Over is not good. So again, it would be great if someone could upload this album.

has anyone seen the film yet?

A guy on the Cookdhttp://kkkorner.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/nbomb5.jpg?w=350&h=259d forum leaked Denim Take Over - he said this a few years ago:

'Denim Take Over' had been my musical holy grail for several years, so after spotting Terry Miles on eBay I persuaded seven Denim fans to send me a tenner each in order to pay Terry the £70 he required for transferring 'Denim Take Over' from DAT onto CDR, which I was then able to leak online. However, Lawrence has since claimed that 'Denim Take Over' was never a completed album and existed only as a loose collection of unmastered demos, perhaps confirmed by the appearance of three of its songs on the last Go-Kart Mozart album.

I was like WTF