Well, that make two people who etc.
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 July 2022 09:04 (one year ago) link
Check your bathroom privilege ! Before my bathroom refurb last autumn (probably 15% more expensive now at least) , I dreaded visitors saying “can I just use the bathroom”.
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 28 July 2022 09:58 (one year ago) link
Also, 3 people at least … I remember an Andy Warhol story about how Gala Dali (Dali’s wife) refused to let him use their toilet in their New York hotel suite when he was visiting.
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 28 July 2022 10:05 (one year ago) link
ArabiaBelgravia obv
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 July 2022 10:37 (one year ago) link
why take interviewers back to your home at all if it's such an issue?
― fetter, Thursday, 28 July 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link
It’s difficult to bullshit the journalist in a coffee shop! Some eavesdropping ilm reader might say “you really to drop this ‘could have been famous’ line - and Summer Smash wasn’t ever going to be the hit you thought it’d be…and a few live appearances would be good - you lazy so and so”.
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 28 July 2022 12:30 (one year ago) link
He is playing in Glasgow a week on Saturday tbf.
― Let's Get Ready to Trimble (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 July 2022 12:35 (one year ago) link
I've written pretty much that same profile of Lawrence - as has seemingly everyone who's ever interviewed him - and yeah, the toilet stuff is both very played out but it is the genuine first thing he says to you. And even before then you're warned by the PR that he'll only do the interview in his flat.
He's friendly but not the easiest person to interview, which would maybe so go some way to explaining why the resulting pieces are so similar.
A few years after I was working in the Waitrose by his flat and he was kind enough to pretend to remember having met me as he paid for his can of Coke. I blurted out something about how I'd spent the bulk of lockdown listening to Felt and he seemed genuinely pleased to hear it.
Seeing him in Hebden Bridge next week and have no idea what to expect. Presumably absolutely zero Felt/Denim stuff?
― bain4z, Thursday, 28 July 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
Correct.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
Plenty of musicians out there would kill to be as 'successful' as Lawrence is these days
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 28 July 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
I for one can't wait to see this plaster bust. Seems a bit rum criticising the snaps as he's clearly made an effort: three costume changes! (he's been raiding the famous cellophane archive) and a new baseball cap (thank god...). Intrigued to hear he's a Nick Cave fan. Yeah, it would be nice if articles could take a different angle to the great lost pop eccentric, but mostly just glad he still garners some attention and makes records. And I like the tramp line.
― cw, Thursday, 28 July 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
He knows what it’s like to be disappointed by your idols – “I couldn’t get over it in the 1980s when Lou Reed had a mullet”
Lawrence otm
― ~insert pun here~ (Matt #2), Thursday, 28 July 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
i feel as if i have read a version of this article every few years for the last two decades.
It doesn't help that he tends to announce the title of the next album right after the last album has come out, and then it takes years before it's actually released. So you get multiple articles over several years that are like, "yeah, we're working on the next album now, it's called Mozart's Mini-Mart!"
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 28 July 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
Things I'd be genuinely interested to learn from a Lawrence interview in 2022: (i) dude wtf do you do all day? and (b) what do you make a month? like srsly, putting aside all the dismantled king shit, where does the money come from?
― fetter, Friday, 29 July 2022 22:49 (one year ago) link
God, The Stagnant Pool fucking tears
― Mule, Friday, 29 July 2022 22:58 (one year ago) link
x-postBoth questions feel a bit too intrusive though? Not sure I’d like to be asked to justify what I do all day or account for my finances.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 29 July 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
Lawrence is obviously very mentally ill
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 30 July 2022 00:12 (one year ago) link
yeah that does cross my mind from time to time, he has the behaviour and mannerisms of a friend of mine who is a diagnosed schizophrenic (and also a musician), however have to remember that it isn't great to do armchair diagnoses, and it's ultimately none of our business
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 30 July 2022 09:12 (one year ago) link
It is certainly not obvious that he is "very mentally ill".
― Let's Get Ready to Trimble (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 July 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link
Sorry that was worded really badly
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 30 July 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
The Hebden Bridge gig was fun enough. Lawrence remains a not particularly engaging stage presence but he's got a good, young, excitable new band with him and they seemed to be enjoying themselves. Not sure he needed to do "Relative Poverty" twice though.
Finally watched Lawrence of Belgravia last night and thought it was a nice portrait of the man - glad there's no toilet/Summer Smash stuff in there. I'm still not sure if he really believes the "I should have been really, really famous" stuff.
― bain4z, Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
I see Cherry Red has reissued all ten albums on CD with new cover art for a tenner each... assume it's the same mastering job as the 2018 deluxe editions, but do they sound good?
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Monday, 22 August 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
"I'm Gonna Wiggle" - tune of the year.
― bain4z, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 12:48 (nine months ago) link
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Sunday, August 21, 2022 9:39 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
Also curious about this. I have copies of most of these album but they are at this point not in great shape
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 10 August 2023 18:20 (eight months ago) link
Felt Share Brand New ‘Primitive Painters’ Video
Lawrence has commissioned Douglas Hart to direct a new video, a powerful meditation on the group – and the coterie who surrounded them – at the time. It draws on Super 8 footage, featuring a plethora of characters from the Felt and Creation Records milieu, including a youthful Alan McGee.
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 18:44 (four months ago) link
Oh wonderful what a treat!
― brimstead, Friday, 1 December 2023 16:27 (four months ago) link
young Lawrence was so dreamy
― brimstead, Friday, 1 December 2023 16:29 (four months ago) link
lol what is this?
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2ilBjWM7w-/
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 23:22 (three months ago) link
oh the dash has broken the url, please copy n paste
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 23:24 (three months ago) link
it's video from this thing btw:
https://www.fitzroviachapel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/fc_Lawence-in-Fitzrovia-hero.jpg
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 25 January 2024 23:25 (three months ago) link