You should read the book 'Song Man' by Will Hodgkinson.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― foxtrotecholimatango, Friday, 1 January 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― NI, Saturday, 2 January 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Bill A, Saturday, 2 January 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey Bill, nice to meet you. That sounds well exciting! Maybe you could sent them to us?Would be highly aprecciated, of course.
― foxtrotecholimatango, Sunday, 3 January 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― ithappens, Sunday, 3 January 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Just to let you know that we have the fanzine now.For more information, you might go tohttp://foxtrotecholimatango.blogspot.com/Also, Rui's Felt Tribute Site has been relaunched:http://felt-tribute.webs.com/default.htmExciting times, isn't it!
― foxtrotecholimatango, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― everything, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Is this Lawrence Of Belgravia film ever going to come out?
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This year apparently.
― everything, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
They've been saying that since at least 2008.
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
if i'm not in it, then that fanzine has no credibility. i'm his number one fan!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― max arrrrrgh, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
That was from Record Collector originally, and is indeed one of the most straight-forward interviews he's done.
― fit and working again, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, posted online i mean
― max arrrrrgh, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― foxtrotecholimatango, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ne more deets on the film release?
i put it in my top five films of 2008 in an important film magazine
― doop snobby snobb (history mayne), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Bill A, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
just a w.i.p.
― doop snobby snobb (history mayne), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Also didn't he once mention a solo album influenced by Lou Reed's Berlin?
"Bilston"
― Wenlock & Mandelson (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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=mfhttp://foxtrotecholimatango.blogspot.com/
― Rocketcottage, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
ayo is there any news on 'lawrence of belgravia'?
― unchill english bro (history mayne), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― max arrrrrgh, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://felt-tribute.webs.com/images/mojo2010.jpg
This article has made my day.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
says 'lawrence of belgravia' will be on at the LFF, but apparently it... isn't :(
― history mayne, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
great news about the reissues though!
― (+) (+ +), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I’m against the ‘00s I don’t care what you sayI’m against the ‘00s you don’t listen to me anywaywell I’m for the ‘90s –oh- and for the ‘10s tooyeah I’m against the ‘00s girl look what they’ve done to you
I made a new sound and they put it undergroundit 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 girldeflated by the ‘00s getting caught up in its social whirlyou should have seen me in the ‘90s I was different thenoh 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 landI took a look around there was nothing going down in the ‘00s
remember in the ‘90s when we were at schoolhangin’ out with the older boys bending all the little rulesremember in the ’93 yeah you and mein a little wood leaning up against the tree
if the truth’s to be told then we were 12 years oldthey say crime doesn’t pay but it surely did that day in the ‘90s,yeah yeahyeah
I’m against the ‘00s duran duranfake make-up boys the rum-runner clanI knew you when you were at school you were nothing thenand when you left the band you were nothing againyou bought yourself a farm and you looked about as calmas 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 playI’m against the ‘00s singers with nothing to sayyou heard it on the radio you saw it on the tvyou still went and bought it thought – aah it amazes me
you wouldn’t know know style if it ran you up the aisleyou 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 girlwe’re into ravesignal III ‘cos “we’re in love with the modern world”I’m sick of winklepicker kids mary chain debrisI’ve just had enough of that nah it doesn’t interest me
I’ve made a new sound this ain’t going undergroundit’s a thunderbolt crash concerns the future and the pastbut not the ‘00s no not the ‘00s we’re talkin' 'bout the ‘00s.
― max arrrrrgh, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i want that t-shirt!
x-posts
― max arrrrrgh, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I want that shirt as well.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― sexy mfa (history mayne), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope he tours the US doing Felt material. Fingers crossed.
― Zooster vs. The Slapp (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― 69, Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
but also i always get cranky about everything between 4 and 6pm.
― 69, Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, im feelin better.
― 69, Thursday, 16 September 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 16 September 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
For those still interested in things: we have made a couple more copies of the fanzine now. You can get them herehttp://foxtrotecholimatango.blogspot.com Also, there was a short article about Brit Pop band Denim in last friday's Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/21/denim-britpop-band
― foxtrotecholimatango, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not missing out this time - ordered, and thanks for the heads up F.E.L.T.
― Bill A, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
ordered mine as soon as the email showed up a couple weeks ago!
― 69, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
just ordered one too... kicked myself for missing out last time..
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Glad i came back here.Hope you'll like the book!
― foxtrotecholimatango, Thursday, 28 October 2010 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Bill A, Monday, 1 November 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
this^^^
― fit and working again, Monday, 1 November 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
got mine today, but my fingers are too greasy from banh mi to feel okay touching it yet hahaha
― 69, Monday, 1 November 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
forever breathes the pictorial greasy bahn mi jackson
― i have a snake. thank u very much! (del), Monday, 1 November 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
omg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJqV5pDxHA
― zappi, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.
― fit and working again, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link