Sinister: Guy Chadwick/Scott Walker

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Keith Watson wrote:

> Babe Rainbow's fucking top, and has been selling in second
> hand shops in
> droves for about a fiver for years. Indeed the
> increasingly desparate House
> of Love at this point released a version of You don't
> Understand where ALL
> the copies were signed by the band (must've been like
> writing lines). It's a
> lovely album, and yeah, it rings a bell, the B side job,
> "Blind" is it?
>
> Keith.
>
>

A friend of mine once bought about a hundred and thirty-two
different versions of "The Beatles and the Stones". That
song had some good lines in it as well, put the "v" in
vietnam and so on. I enjoyed his argument with that Bickers
fella. His guitar playing was like a disease apparently. I
think drugs played a part in the whole affair, including the
purchase of multiple versions of that song.These multiple
messages are a bit alarming. I don't mind when it's other
people's, but when it's mine I think what a boring bastard I
am. Which may or may not be the case.

I don't know whether Gary Kemp is married to Pepsi or
Shirley or both, but they were in Hello magazine.

That Walker Brothers CD is dead good, especially the
interview at the end. Poptastic. In Nik Cohn's book
AWOPBOPALOPBOPALOPBOPALOPBOPALOPBAMBOO! he expresse the
opinion that the Walker Brothers stuff is great, and then
goes on to say how disappointed he is that Scott Walker went
on to dedicate himself to the production of "flowerpots". At
no point does he explain the meaning of "flowerpots", but I
think he means records with big orchestras on them.
Personally I like the big orchestras on SW's records, and
see no similarity to flowerpots, but it's a nice image and
I've been using it a lot ever since I read it. Are Belle and
Sebastian in the flowerpot business? After all ,they do use
cellos and trumpets and stuff. My favourite Scott Walker
composition, and coincidentally the biggest flowerpot of all
time is "The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the
Neo-Stalinist Regime)". It's truly funky. I listen to Scott
Walker quite a lot, being a flowerpot kind of guy. The
fornnt cover of "After the Lights Go Out" reveals Scott to
be in posession of a very tight pair of trousers that reveal
where he keeps his maracas. And the liner notes are written
by the equally exquisite Mike Read. Whereas the "Boy Child"
notes come courtesy of Marc Almond.

Peter

"Runaroooooooouuuuuuund........NOW!"

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