The Velvet Forum

..'POPtical Illusion,' out 14th June 2024. Video for first new track is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQ9Xt9hU3c

Thanks for this, amazing this kind of thing is still turning up. I can hear hints/ roots of Lou's "Men Of Good Fortune" in some of the sections in there, never really connected the two.

Thank you!

Here's the Little Sister snippet, this link should work for the next seven days:

https://we.tl/t-XTjfDbypVV

I also missed out on the link to "Young Man," so, yes, please, if anyone is feeling kind....

A little more on the Warhol Museum's Scepter Studio Sessions exhibition:

https://www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-enter ... e-23822360

A review of the set from the latest edtion of Uncut has been posted on twitter. By the way, this is NOT from the issue with the Street Hassle piece; the new one has The Specials on the cover and is dated November (because it's still September, after all). The Street Hassle feature is in October's Un...

Ah, excellent: thank you very,very much. I used to have a copy, but it was lost, and have been keen to revisit it. You're a (shooting) star!

Thanks for the link. Elsewhere, it's not online, but the UK magazine Uncut has a pretty great piece on the making of the Street Hassle LP in the current issue (dated October, with David Bowie on the cover), interviewing some of Lou's band from the period. It mentions the Ludwigshafen show of 1977 - ...

Can any kind soul help a brother? I used to have this show and lost it in a hard drive crash. Is there anyone who could post it again, please?