Lloyd Cole-Felt
Ben Clancy  (3-Dec-1998) Email the author   Show thread
> -----Original Message----- > From: Julian Lawton [SMTP:julian.lawton@--hidden--] > Sent: 02 December 1998 23:32 > To: shalala@--hidden-- > Subject: Re: Shalala: Lloyd Cole-Felt > > > Can't see the Cole/Felt interface. > But Ben - they wore the same hat! [Clancy,B] It's not where you're from, > it's wear your hat. Lawrence was ahead of the game. I think it was > actually that comparison > that first got me interested in Felt (either in Record Mirror or Smash > Hits, [Clancy,B] Smash Hits - Sylvia Patterson interviewed Lawrence, > full-page, in late 86. He graduated to the stickers album the following > year. > as this was before I 'graduated' to the inkies - and was that your mug > above > 'Your Shout' this week?). [Clancy,B] No, it was just my name. I got a > stunt double to stand in for the photo. > 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. [Clancy,B] That was Cole > around 93/4. I forget exactly...he'd moved to NY and spent his time paying > pool players 50 bucks a game so he could learn from them. Tosser. But he > has made some good records. >