Did you pick up a copy of the beautiful Felt book? My copy arrived from Rough Trade last week and it is gorgeous. It is so good to see such an artefact out there, even if it is in a necessarily limited edition of 1000 copies. I spoke to Lawrence about doing something very similar well over a decade ago. It was just after a book by Kevin Pearce had been abandoned and I foolishly thought I might be able to do something. There were some ideas about collecting Felt/Denim ephemera such as plectrums, tickets etc into the book. There were ideas about extracts from Lawrence’s diaries. There was tentative talk of Lawrence coming to Devon to do some writing. Then my real world got in the way. Juggling a full time teaching career, my Tangents website and such a project was simply unfeasible and the idea slipped.
So whilst I admit to a pang of jealousy in seeing this project come to reality I have nothing but admiration for those involved. The text is spare, essentially some key insights from Lawrence and a lovely introduction by Bob Stanley to set context to the glorious collection of photographs. As such it’s a perfect companion to the ‘Foxtrot Echo Lima Tango’ book that came out in the middle of 2010, and last year’s ‘Ballad of the Fan’ by JC Brouchard. It really does set up a wonderful trinity.
Coincidentally, Bob Stanley has written this weekend about ‘Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty’. It’s a treasure.
Now, who’s up for excavating, curating and celebrating the Denim story?
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