Lloyd Cole-Felt
Julian Lawton  (2-Dec-1998) Email the author   Show thread
>Can't see the Cole/Felt interface. But Ben - they wore the same hat! I think it was actually that comparison that first got me interested in Felt (either in Record Mirror or Smash Hits, as this was before I 'graduated' to the inkies - and was that your mug above 'Your Shout' this week?). Certainly, there was a loose link in sound/style between 'Rattlesnakes' and their early Creation/post-Deebank material, and a similar aesthetic at work, but after getting into Felt I had the feeling that Lloyd was very much the 6th form poet - all kudos by association, name-dropping your reference points, rather than using them as bench-marks. And then he went into that really embarassing black leather jackey whisky drinking 'playing pool with the boys' period that was really unconvincing. (He says having hung the black leather jacket up in the cupboard and finishing a double of quality bourboun).