[peel] Lawrence Of Belgravia - peel content

[Ben Harrison]

Absolutely not up-to-speed w/ this, but minor detail: I am sure I have a
Peel-related compilation that features Felt's Primitive Painters. Can't
recall if it's something I purchased, or was it one that came w/ Uncut*
magazine? (*might have been an inside job then...) I don't know if any of
this tells us if they were every played on it though.

I might never known of Felt if not for an issue of Smash Hits from whenever
Julian Cope's World Shut Your Mouth single came out. And in addition to a
Whitney Houston poster on the back, it had a page on this barefoot chap,
Lawrence. Enthusiastically written by Sylvia Patterson? Is this when a-Ha's
second album came out. Billy Idol  on the cover? Jumpers for goalposts...



On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:32 PM, MARK LUETCHFORD <
M.Luetchford@...> wrote:

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> I saw an early cut of this a few years back and I agree its brilliant - I
> don't recall the section about Peel so its probably a later edit in but I
> am pretty certain that Peel did play Face on Fire as I had it on a
> mixtape that was chewed many moons ago.
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> Paul Kelly also made an excellent film about Dolly Mixture - Take Three
> Girls that is worth catching if you can.
>
> Mark
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>   *From:* RobF <robfleay@...>
> *To:* peel@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Monday, 18 June 2012, 10:53
> *Subject:* [peel] Lawrence Of Belgravia - peel content
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> I saw Lawrence of Belgravia (Paul Kelly's documentary about Lawrence from
> Felt/Denim/Go Kart Mozart) at the weekend and there was a great bit where
> Lawrence adamantly claims that the reason Felt never achieved the same
> level of success as their contemporaries is purely down to the fact that
> John Peel didn't like them.
>
> This then leads on to Pete Astor telling Lawrence that when he did a
> Wisdom Of Harry session at Peel Acres, he covered a Denim song and John
> Peel told him that he'd never received a letter as horrible and vitriolic
> as the one that Lawrence sent him. Apparently Peel hadn't liked the first
> Felt single, so Lawrence wrote to him demanding both copies of the 7" back
> that he'd sent in.
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> He then displayed the original copy of the single with John Peel's
> handwritten & signed note on the sleeve saying "I could only find one copy
> of the single so please send me a bill for the missing copy and I will give
> you the money"
>
> The film is excellent anyway and highly recommended viewing - even if you
> aren't a big fan
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