The good news. Felt are in a chart at last. The bad news. It's only mine. The were probably the most notorious chart avoiders the Eighties produced along with The Go-Betweens and leader Lawrence has continued to avoid commercial if not critical fame with unerring inevitability ever since.
This is not a huge surprise these days. His records and the man himself become more downright peculiar with the passing of time. Still of interest to the likes of me but with not a hope in hell of hitting the financial payload.
This was not the case with Felt. They made any number of melodic records which would and could have slotted in on daytime radio nicely. Lawrence had an alluring voice in the mold of Dylan and the band boasted a superb guitarist in Maurice Deebank who was able to play like Television's Verlaine and Lloyd at one and the same time.
Whatever their reason, Lawrence's inability to play the game and the fact that Peel didn't like him and wouldn't play them being the two major on's in all probability, the records still sound mighty fine. Ask Stuart Murdoch. Ask Tim Burgess.
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