Dismantled king is off the throne: watching the Lawrence film
I've been hearing about this film for years but I've now, finally, watched it. Lawrence Of Belgravia , Paul Kelly's 2011 documentary on Mr Felt/Denim/Go-Kart Mozart. Yep, a whole hour and 25 minutes devoted to Lawrence of Old Street/Water Orton. In my opinion, Felt's music is right up there - at its best, mysteriously poetic and sublimely beautiful - and having personally encountered Lawrence a couple of times in the past five years (blogs here and here ), I've got a lot of time for him (about 85 mins, in fact). Kelly's film is of the "observational" variety, plunging straight into the modern-day life of this stranded wannabe popstar as he apparently faces eviction from his flat in central London. From there you follow him around as he gets a new flat, does a few shows and some recording with Go-Kart Music, gets interviewed by several journalists and meets up with a few old music cronies (Gary Ainge, Pete Astor, Vic Godard etc). It's pleasingly mu...
