A series to cut out and keep, courtesy of the Birmingham Music Archive — the place celebrating, preserving, and sharing Birmingham’s music heritage. This piece from Paul Long, and you’re welcome to contribute or argue the toss. Don’t forget they’re looking for Brum’s bestest ever gig too. Band: Felt Record: Primitive Painters (Cherry Red, August 1985) Felt were one of the bands whose records and approach to pop defined the independent recording sector in the 1980s and, to some degree, aspects of an ‘alternative’ musical sphere. They were beloved of delicate women and effete young men for whom The Smiths, for instance, were just a litle too rough (rather like most Mancunian bands who fancy themselves as ‘arty’). In their ambition and vision, Felt made Morrissey’s pretentions look like those of a shopfitter from Salford.
