...to see Lawrence Of Belgravia this year, coming up next week!
There will be a special one-off screening of the Lawrence documentary next Wednesday 14th November at the Curzon Cinema in Soho.
Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with Lawrence and director Paul Kelly.
Show starts at 6.30pm.
The magnificent Felt book will be on sale in the foyer afterwards. There's also rumours about super limited Go-Kart Mozart key rings being in supply. Amazing.
Hope to see you there then.
If you go here you can hear him talking about his well-liked B side band, their new single, sleep, and then some.
Starts roughly after 12.30 minutes. Very informative and entertaining so do not miss.
Many thanks go to Raz for the tip-off!
With Paul Kelly's excellent film about Lawrence currently doing the rounds (if it hasn't made it to a cinema near you, you should ask to speak to the manager), there's also lots of great articles and interviews popping up which we'd like to point you to.
Nicholas Abrahams recently interviewed both Paul and Lawrence for the Quietus, while over on John Robinson's blog he's posted an extended version of the interview he did with Lawrence for Uncut late last year. And in a week or two, the new Mojo should hit the shelves with - we hear - a long feature on Lawrence and Felt...
Amazingly, there also appear to be some copies left of the rather extraordinary Felt book. That will not be the case for much longer, so we can only recommend you purchase a copy for your coffee table before it's too late.
We are exceedingly excited to announce this very special event, taking place on Friday, February 3rd at London's Rough Trade East, the shop famous for their tote bags.
The Felt Book's co-initiator Lora Findlay informed us that Lawrence himself will be doing a Q&A with Will Hodgkinson (author of Song Man) and various ex-members of the band (pictured).
Furthermore, Paul Kelly is going to screen excerpts from his Lawrence Of Belgravia film, and some record playing by the ex-colleagues will go down as well.
You can find more information about the event and how to get in here.
Surely a unique chance to pick up your signed copy of this matter which we believe to be essential. Yes!
"I have a New Year's Eve show on 6Music, 7am til 10am. A bit like the queen, I will be doing an honours list, and Lawrence will be getting an MBE...
I think it's beautiful to have Lawrence on daytime radio - I wanted to honour the brilliant film Lawrence Of Belgravia and the completion of the new Go Kart Mozart record. As well as playing my personal GKM fav Glorious Chorus, I managed to sneak in Primitive Painters too..."
Firstly, this month there is another Felt book being published and it looks very special. It's called FELT / the book and it's a limited edition picture book of the band, from their early days at Cherry Red Records through to their last album on Creation Records, with commentary from Lawrence throughout. Yes, that's right - this one is official! It's published by First Third Books and you can only get hold of it via their website: www.firstthirdbooks.com. We would pre-order the hell out of it, if we were you.
The book is designed Paul Kelly and associates, which brings us to the second bit of seasonal business: Paul's film Lawrence of Belgravia, which has been a labour of love to rival the Sistine Chapel ceiling, finally has its premiere at the London Film Festival in a couple of weeks. You may have to beg/borrow/steal to get yourself a ticket - or better yet, why not organise a screening somewhere close to you? The campaign for a general release starts here.
Now here's another thing to look forward to: on Tuesday 7th June, Lawrence will do a show on Domino Radio 87.7FM (www.dominorad.io for our international friends). Starts 4:30pm (GMT). Expect one and a half hours of high quality entertainment etc.
A very exciting email from our good friend and Creation alumni of sorts, JC Brouchard arrived this week, informing us that his very own Felt publication is out very soon. The text he contributed to Foxtrot Echo Lima Tango was only one chapter of a whole book, which JC has now finished and published as Felt: Ballad Of The Fan.
We're going to stop selling copies of the fanzine through the blog at the end of next week (December 10). The few remaining copies will go to some shops, which will be listed. Then that's it. The pleasure was ours, thank you everyone!
The second edition of Foxtrot Echo Lima Tango is finally due off the presses on 23 October, according to our very friendly printer.
Because lots of you have already said you want a copy, we've put the Paypal button back up on the site (look to your right) so that people can pre-order this week if they would like to be sure of getting one. Our plan is that, with our mail room hats on, we can get lots of envelopes pre-addressed and then can send out your copies as soon as they fall off the back of the lorry.
We'll keep posting any updates on the delivery schedule in any case!
John Mohan (the Servants/Felt/Apple Boutique/John Mohan) has his solo debut out! To be precise: it's three home recordings, made between 1986/1987. This dream 3" cd has just been released on the Edition 59 label. That's the same people who've done Apple Boutique's Love Resistance too. As their name suggests, there's only 59 copies, so one might hurry. Especially since Goodbye Jane is such an implausible gem. Well, it all is really. I for one am planning to hammer it repeatedly at the launch of the reprint. For sure!
We have recovered, just, from Rocket Cottage's fantastic Lawrence-channelling set at the Betsey Trotwood a few weeks back - belated congratulations to all those who won fantastic radio roadshow goodie bags! Whilst we're at it, we would also take the opportunity to salute Lupe, Raz and everyone who helped making it the fun it was.
Meanwhile, however, the steady trickle of emails requesting a reprint have continued, as have the nice reviews in glossy publications (Q, Mojo, Frieze, Dazed & Confused, etc). Not wishing to seem churlish, we have faced up to our fears of yet another big pile of publications taking up the bicycle space in the hallway: the presses are humming and we expect to have 500 copies of the second (and really final) edition by early October. More news on the exact date as soon as we have it, and we'll put up a thing for pre-orders as soon as it's all confirmed.
Thanks again to everyone who sent us lovely messages over the summer - and we promise, everyone who requested the reprint already is guaranteed a copy.
We are very proud to announce an evening of Felt/Denim/Go-Kart Mozart related music and merriment next Friday August 6th at the Betsey Trotwood pub in London! It starts at 8pm.
The fabulous Rocket Cottage (two ex-Baxendale/one Alexander's Festival Hall) will be playing. We'd also like to thank their Tim Benton again for this bombastic poster. As you can read, they are going to do a range of bona fide Lawrence smash hits, along with Fabien Polair and some surprise guests (let's see!) plus records spun by Lupe Nunez-Fernandez (Amor de Dias / Pipas) and probably us too. Good luck hast it that the nice Colour Me Pop people have an event upstairs simultaneously, so it's fairly hard to imagine what else in London might compete that evening.
We are very much looking forward to it! Hope you can join us for the festivities.
So the copies of the 'zine sold out. we slapped ourselves on the back and thought that the worldwide demand had probably been sated. How wrong we were.
Now, some reviews later and courtesy of lots of nice word of mouth, we are getting several disappointed messages a day from prospective readers. Suitably chastened, we are happy to consider a second printing if there is enough interest. If you are one of the unlucky few who did not get a copy first time around but would take a second bite of the cherry, please just drop us a one line email to register your interest and if there are enough of you we will bow to popular demand...
Meanwhile, we are arranging a little celebratory do in London for next Friday August 6th - more details over the weekend!
