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 (thirteen years ago) link
ayo is there any news on 'lawrence of belgravia'?
― unchill english bro (history mayne), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 20:01 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
great news about the reissues though!
― (+) (+ +), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 17:10 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
i want that t-shirt!
x-posts
― max arrrrrgh, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I want that shirt as well.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:54 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
but also i always get cranky about everything between 4 and 6pm.
― 69, Thursday, 16 September 2010 00:17 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, im feelin better.
― 69, Thursday, 16 September 2010 17:14 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
whuuuuuuuut
― for all the fucked-up children of this world we give you 1p3 (history mayne), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
is that gyles 'thatcher' brandreth with lawrence?
― Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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".
― everything, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
This article is probably the pinnacle of this kind of thing
― everything, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Totally with you there.
― fit and working again, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
love his hat but loz looks like absolute shit these days
― ooma boogy wow wow (electricsound), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
So he goes on the one show dressed like he used to in Denim.
― Morcheeba, simply happening. (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, that's what they were talking about.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost I don't think that piece suggests it was all bad luck. Surely lots of the things listed are catastrophic misjudgments?
― Alan Partridge Project (ithappens), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
They were not one of the 0.001% of musicians who make it huge. So what? Who cares? I followed this band from the beginning and it never even crossed my mind that that they were competing for chart positions and TOTP appearances.
By the standards of the kind of people who liked them, I think they had a pretty good career actually. The stature of the band entirely rests upon the superb music that is contained within "Back In Denim" and "Denim On Ice". They are more than that but that should be enough. Everything they released was fantastic and still stands up today, they garnered critical acclaim that few bands achieve, didn't release anything that was aesthetically half-assed (great design, covers, concepts, clothes etc), did BBC sessions, appeared on TV, toured in Europe, even played a couple of stadium gigs with Pulp. That's a career that 99% of bands would die for.
I doubt that "Summer Smash" would have been a big hit anyway. It would have been their worst single had it ever been released. And what is the point of even speculating about this anyway? Would history have been different if they had had a single novelty hit? I'm reminded of the Dickies, who had 9 hits in the UK in the space of about 2 years. Following this, they were hampered by drug issues, bad business decisions, revolving door line-ups, quickly returning to impoverished obscurity, putting out patchy albums for decades, endlessly touring with their first two albums making up the bulk of their set. I suspect this would have been the fate for Denim, had they ever had a splash of mainstream success. Instead we got Go-Kart Mozart who I consider to be absolute genius.
― everything, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Happy birthday!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
For whatever reason I thought he'd be older. Happy birthday Lawrence.
― classic albums live! (Ówen P.), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, happy birthday Lawrence, <3 you so much! Poem of the River for all time!
one of those bands where the interviews and conceptual stuff rivals their actual output!
have you guys heard this?? http://dominorad.io/show/lawrence_from_felt\\i've a link to it if you wanna listen! so great!
― dell (del), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah his radio show was great.
― fit and working again, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
proper link to show: http://archive.dominorad.io/lawrencefelt.mp3
was pleasantly surprised to learn that his musical tastes coincide rather eerily with mine. shack, dexys, prefab sprout fantastic something? sheesh, get out of town, loz!!
of course made a mental note to investigate win (whose existence i had been oompletely ignorant of) and sudden sway (all i had known of them was their evolution peel sessions) (he claimed during the broadcast that they were his favorite artists of the nineties!)
― dell (del), Friday, 12 August 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
The two Win albums are very good.
― fit and working again, Friday, 12 August 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of stayed up all night a few weeks ago the first time i heard them. one of those things, like friends again, where i was like 'why didn't my obsessive record collector friends who were keyed into eighties uk pop tell me about this waaaaay earlier???'
― dell (del), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
makes me wish bimble were still here, b/c he was the sort that would post space blues on his blog and be like almost apologizing for the obviousness of it, like "of course this is basic cultural literacy for civilized ppl"
― dell (del), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
like lawrence playing wild swans... almost a tossed-off gesture
― dell (del), Friday, 12 August 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone read that slim jc brouchard volume, ballad of the fan?
― cw, Friday, 12 August 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link