Watching old indie vids on You Tube at the weekend (lots of the old Shelter video compilation on there) it struck me just how few of the groups looked uniformly good. So often there would be at least one member who just didn’t look right; wrong haircut, wrong jacket, wrong shoes, wrong moves, whatever… The only groups I thought looked great as a cohesive band were The June Brides and Laugh. The Junies looked especially good walking down the street in their suits, whilst Laugh just looked so casually smart, so right. I kept wishing the video for 'Paul McCartney' hadn’t employed all the dodgy home video effects and had instead focused on just showing how good the group looked and moved. Sharp as a needle.
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