Member Since: 5/2/2008
Band Website: you're on it!
Influences:
On a wet Wednesday afternoon whilst stalking the grey, ultra modern paving slabs of Southport I took shelter in the local Oxfam to prevent my hair becoming wet and curly, by doing such a thing I wisely avoided nature's wicked wicked trick of making me look like Kevin Keegan circa 1982.
I walked through the door and briefly browsed through the bookshelves; 'What a surprise, a copy of Nick Hornby's "About a boy!"' I thought to myself sarcastically having seen a copy of it in every charity shop that I've ever been into in my entire life.
After staring at enough Mills and Boon to turn one blind I approached the music section expecting to find nothing but a Spice Girls single and probably a CD entitled something hideous like '20 Summer Songs' which would have been given away free in the Daily Mail some months ago. However, much to my surprise I saw in front of me a whole host of cassettes one of which was “The Very Best of the Walker Brothers” and for 25p I bought it.
I gingerly walked to the till trying to prevent the sound of my Chelsea boots making such a reaction on the ragged carpet announcing my presence in such an ostentatious manner. The two elderly women volunteering behind the desk had an uncanny resemblance to the two women in the charity shop sketch in ‘The League of Gentlemen' and with the sketch where the unfortunate man attempted : to buy a cassette : stamped firmly in my mind, I apprehensively put the tape on the desk.
I was expecting a bit of a commotion and a twenty minute ordeal when it came to buying the cassette. I was wrong. The women that served me looked a little bit like the inimitable Hylda Baker : and after she had handed me the cassette I said “Thank you, very glad” an obscure reference to Baker. She didn't comprehend and instead gave me a very condescending smile but at least I had avoided the annoyance that the character in The League did not.
Anyway, I took the tape and ran. Ran home. I held it in my hand – look at Scott! How amazing, how beautiful. The fact that Julian Cope, Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley and that bunch of middle class hippies from Oxford rave on about him at every opportunity made perfect sense, and I hadn't even played the music yet.
: : *****
“Loneliness is a cloak you wear” God, Scott understands, that voice, that voice, so beguiling yet so wonderful and those strings. Man, this is all I've ever wanted. Ever.:
MyGen Profile Generator