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william_kent

william_kent

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jenks said:
I hope you like it. I must admit I found post Felt Lawrence less interesting. That perverse love of all that cheap 70s tat that those of us who lived through it didnā€™t want to repeat.
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I'm enjoying this - although I'm puzzled, Lawrence is 15 in 1977 when punk hits Brum, he is 12 when he first hears Marc Bolan in 1972, he is 12 in 1974 when the IRA blow up a pub in Birmingham - is he continually lying about his age or was the book in need of a proofreader with a memory that exceeds that of a goldfish?

I wish there was more on the detour into a "needle strewn alleyway on the path to fame"

edit: he is definitely lying when he says that Felt were never played on the John Peel show, I used to have a tape that disproves that
 
jenks

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I'm enjoying this - although I'm puzzled, Lawrence is 15 in 1977 when punk hits Brum, he is 12 when he first hears Marc Bolan in 1972, he is 12 in 1974 when the IRA blow up a pub in Birmingham - is he continually lying about his age or was the book in need of a proofreader with a memory that exceeds that of a goldfish?

I wish there was more on the detour into a "needle strewn alleyway on the path to fame"

edit: he is definitely lying when he says that Felt were never played on the John Peel show, I used to have a tape that disproves that
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Iā€™m guessing Lawrence is partial to the odd lie with regard to how old he was and what he can remember- it fits the narrative heā€™s created about the past and the 70s in particular. He did famously write a very rude letter to Peel asking for his single back as he hadnā€™t played it. And Peel did return it. Again it fits his story that everyone was against him.
I do still listen to Primitive Painters and wonder how come it wasnā€™t more well known though.
 
william_kent

william_kent

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jenks said:
Iā€™m guessing Lawrence is partial to the odd lie with regard to how old he was and what he can remember- it fits the narrative heā€™s created about the past and the 70s in particular. He did famously write a very rude letter to Peel asking for his single back as he hadnā€™t played it. And Peel did return it. Again it fits his story that everyone was against him.
I do still listen to Primitive Painters and wonder how come it wasnā€™t more well known though.
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I was assuming it was running joke throughout the book that Lawrence is lying about his age

I own more than one Felt LP

this is my favourite Felt tune, but I would harangue Lawrence about the title!



Felt - Red Indians

LARRY IT'S

NATIVE AMERICANS! OR TRIBAL NATIONS!

FFS LARRY!
 
william_kent

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I have a copy of this, I may have read it, I picked up a whole bunch of Lem books in one go, I ended up thinking he is the Polish Philip K Dick
must backtrack and re-investigate
 
sufi

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I have a copy of this, I may have read it, I picked up a whole bunch of Lem books in one go, I ended up thinking he is the Polish Philip K Dick
must backtrack and re-investigate
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i think i read another of his at some point about piloting asteroids with wormholes in them ... that list on the wikipedia page is awe inspiring
 
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