Lloyd Cole-Felt
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> From: Julian Lawton [SMTP:julian.lawton@--hidden--]
> Sent: 02 December 1998 23:32
> To: shalala@--hidden--
> Subject: Re: Shalala: Lloyd Cole-Felt
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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.
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