the rectal prolapse of norman lamont: terrible post-britpop/dadrock ephemera

symposium got a bottle of my piss at V97

kinky machine were mark goodier's fave band when he did the evening session

I love that the third post on that NAM thread is Ethan going "I suppose this is as good a place as any to talk about Daft Punk..."

jocasta-The singer was an absolute nutter who took himself way too seriously. He got himself a huge drugs habit but was eventually saved and sent to rehab by Dot Cotton from Eastenders

Please tell me this is actually true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Arnold_%28musician%29

This is an amazing piece of Wikipedia vandalism.

In 2003 Arnold traveled to a Buddhist monastery in Thailand.[2] He was practically adopted by the abbot of the monastery who encouraged him with his music and that, in turn, opened new artistic horizons. Under the guidance of the monks, he engaged in the composition of an album in which the music was created by following cracks in the earth, which metamorphosed into pop rock melodies.

Lokutara was his debut solo album, written and recorded in Thailand with the assistance of the monastery's community.

dom or ferg?

Hailing from a working class theatrical family, the smell of the grease paint was so strong that at 14 years old he decided to leave his mother's home in Spain and return alone to England to study at the Rudolf Steiner School and join the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Arnold was the youngest initiate ever to join the ancient order of which the poet William Blake had been a former chief. Bizarrely enough, Arnold completed the Orders’ Bardic teachings in 1990 and so, therefore, is actually a ‘Bard’. It was at The Rudolf Steiner School that he formed the band Jocasta with best friend Jack Reynolds. In 1994, Arnold and the band moved from Hertfordshire to London. Arnold originally intended to take a place at St. Martin's School of Art that he had been offered but instead took a job in Soho, working as a chef by day and a doorman by night in an illegal drinking bar.[1]

Algerian Goalkeeper your conception of "landfill" is about as well-defined as your conception of "hipster" or "electro".

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yeah well i get most things wrong round here. I apologise!

It's starting to occur to me that this is actually all true and not a work of vandalism at all - see this for example.

Dunno if it is vandalism tbh eg:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sonnet-155-Tim-Arnold/dp/B003GE69Q6/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1298568316&sr=1-3

xp!

dear lord, you post quotes from wikipedia but you dont post this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/TIM-SOS_1_smalljpg.jpg

http://www.thamkrabok.net/html/spiritual_high.html

It's a place that has gained a degree of international fame - not least since one of its success stories, erstwhile minor Britpop star Tim Arnold and his godmother June Brown (Dot Cotton of Eastenders) made a very public plea to drug-addled Pete Doherty of the Libertines to seek help there following his much publicised meltdown.

CD Description
'Sonnet 155' is a rock/classical crossover of 11 songs written and performed by Arnold.
Stylistically bridging the gap between Seattle Rock and European Baroque, the album re-interprets classical pieces of music by Mozart, Rimsky Korsakov and a co-write with Michael Nyman - all driven by Shakespearean themes.
In early 2007 singer, Arnold wrote over 30 individual letters to Shakespearean actors Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Richard Briers & Janet Suzman, asking `What theme in Shakespeare best described the human condition?' Replies to his letters poured in and with the gentle help of those who have devoted their lives to working on and in Shakespeare's plays, Arnold formed the basis of what would become the album, Sonnet 155. The result is one man's personal navigation through these themes. The self-financed album was produced by Arnold with Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters, Radiohead, The Boxer Rebellion, Biffy Clyro and Feeder).

LOL

In 1999 he signed a publishing deal with V2 Music. he also became Master of Music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, composing original music for Peter Oswald's Augustine's Oak, a new verse play written especially for the Globe. In 2000 he briefly begun a new band called Spearshaker. The band recorded some demos at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, but nothing materialised.

In 2001, Arnold left V2 and signed to Universal Music Publishing. For two years, he wrote and produced music for newly signed artists at Universal, mostly Pop, R & B, Garage and Hip Hop.

This is pretty productive for a crackhead.

the monastery/Dot Cotton thing was filmed for a BBC documentary iirc?

maybe I just read about the forced puking or w/e in the paper - either way it got your man from Jocasta more press than his band ever did

I remember the NME did a feature on him around 2004. Basically he got a story and decent album review because Pete Doherty tried going to the same monastery in Thailand but he left after about five minutes.

Dot Cotton saved Tim Arnold but sadly couldn't do the same for Pete.

this must be one of the most anglocentric threads on recent ilx

not a great advert

there's always cliches about french culture being singular and inward looking, a country unto itself, but really despite half the world knowing english, so much never leaves our shores (thankfully)

this must be one of the most anglocentric threads on recent ilx

narrower than that, i don't fucking understand 75% of it

so no horrific britpop flashbacks for you then lex?

It's too soon for any of us to truly understand what happened.

ive probably heard half of the polled bands, haven't even heard of about ten

so no horrific britpop flashbacks for you then lex?

general ones yeah, but i...just wasn't into this scene, or god help us the landfill one, to have paid attention enough to remember half the things you're talking about

This era's 1066 and all that:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4161S7E1Y7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst...Album_in_the_World...Ever...EVER!

THE SHIREHORSES - (Now) I Know (Where I'm Going) Our Kid (The Seahorses - "Love is the Law")
PEELA TATER - Ta La (Kula Shaker - "Tattva")
BABY BLOKE - You're Gormless (Baby Bird - "You're Gorgeous")
THE CHARLEY TWINS - West Country Boy (The Charlatans - "North Country Boy")
DICK CAVE AND THE BAD CHEESE feat. RILEY MINOGUE - Hapless Boy Lard (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds featuring Kylie Minogue - "Where The Wild Roses Grow")
DOOFERGRASS - Feel Like Shite (Supergrass - "Alright")
GAZEBO - Lardy Boy (Placebo - "Nancy Boy")
EDWYN BOBBINS - Girl Like You (Hiya) (Edwyn Collins - "A Girl Like You")
FLUSH - Single Bloke (Lush - "Single Girl")
MORONICO - Sha La La La, Tum Tee Tum (Untitled) (Monaco - "What Do You Want from Me?")
CHEEPER - Ugly Bleeder (Sleeper - "Inbetweener")
DICK CAVE AND THE BAD CHEESE feat. ALAN BAWL (NO RELATION) - The Ballad of Franny Lee (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds -"Henry Lee")
THE RA-GNOMES - Sheena Easton (Punk Rocker) / Joe's F***ed Off (The Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker segued with Blitzkrieg Bop)
ALLADIN-ANE - Bill Oddity (David Bowie (aka Aladdin Sane) - Space Oddity (song))
FRANK SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION - Frank Spencer Blues Explosion (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion general parody)
PO-FASIS - Cum On Skweeze Me Boilz (Oasis, covering Slade's Cum On Feel the Noize)
BABY BLOKE - You're a Bastard (Baby Bird - "You're Gorgeous")

MORONICO

I came across this monstrosity recently. Can't remember it from the time at all. I'm kind of perversely fascinated with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-qxJi5W4i8

dear god that is horrific

from 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33SjUj4J5BU

proto scouting for girls?

"im only 17 i go to public school they never taught me anything i need to learn"

how i wish robin carmody still posted here

this is like ilx set to music

Haha I had that posh single. The B-side was called Body Fascist! They had to change their name because Posh was already taken so they became The Swarm.

I'm not looking at Wikipedia for any of this, I'm ashamed to say.

presuming catch singer is enrique pre-bfi days?

this is like ilx set to music

― Romford Spring (DG),

LOL so true

http://i.imgur.com/TaLkH.jpg

then and now

http://www.urbanjunkies.com/london/guide-my-london/pippa-brooks.html

xps I have at least one record by a Canadian hardcore band called The Swarm [continuing a theme upthread]

didn't rate the noise long pigs much btw

she seems to have turned into quentin crisp xps

landfill never really had scenesters

I'd forgotten how horrific that Catch single was.

I remember that single was about him losing his virginity/prostitutes then they had a follow up called Dive In that was about masturbation. Think they were probably dropped/beaten to death just after that.

did the singer ever get a solo career or get into tv?

house of lords

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_%28band%29

In the early hours of 31 August 1997, the video for "Bingo" was being featured on the ITV Chart Show on ITV, before it faded out to be replaced by a news report, giving the then sketchy details of the road accident that killed Princess Diana.[2]

One for the unusual details in wiki articles thread.

Reputedly formed when Slater, Murray and Etchells kissed the same girl at a party; Catch were, in fact, formed from the ashes of Brattish, Slater's first band, formed in 1994/95, which also included Etchells. Brattish rehearsed the Catch material extensively, paid for by interested A&R men, but never gigged. Slater also was a driving-force behind the short-lived "Romo" movement in the autumn/winter of 1995, DJ-ing at "Arcadia".

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/102267034_af57e96362.jpg