I've always loved street syle photos ... but I always wanted to know more than just what clothes they were wearing. I wanted to know about the music in their life. the last song they listened to, the last album they bought and last gig they saw. music tells you as much about a person as the clothes they are wearing ... but this part is always kept hidden - and that's how this feature came about.
if it's green it's a clickable link ... get background information on the last album they bought (+ here a song from it) ... see footage of the last gig they saw ... and hear the last song they listened to.
please let me know your favourites.
thanks to Amy, Victoria, Rupert, Chloe, Rachel, Leah and Leonora for letting me take their photos.
Amy, 31
dress - aquascutum from a charity shop shoes - brothel creepers from London Underground belt - charity shop jacket - top shop glasses - Arckiv in Camden, London
style inspiration: a mixture of 1950's ... a little bit of goth I suppose in a way, a little bit of punk - not real individuals as such, more like eras and periods last song you listened to: L7 - Shitlist ... last night ... that was the era when I first got into music ... the early 90's last album you bought: the last one I bought was probably a blues compilation off Amazon with Howlin' Wolf + Muddy Waters last gig you saw: it's been so long, the last gig I went to ... was probably ... Drugstore Cowboys at a little bar in London
Victoria, 18 top - charity shop belt - clare's accesories skirt - eBay underskirt - from my friends hand-made clothes shop Styx in Preston boots - new rocks from eBay socks - primark
style inspiration: well my godfathers wife is a goth so she's been my inspiration since I was 4 last song you listened to: Busted - Falling For You last album you bought: The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us (here is that full album!) last gig you saw:Guns N Roses in Manchester
Rupert, 49
shoes - charity shop trousers - Colmans tailor shop, London Road, Leicester tank top - knitted by dancing partners mum jacket - charity shop coat - charity shop ... donegal tweed overcoat from the 1940's umbrella - charity shop £3 tie - Vintage Years, Leicester cap - off the internet shirt - marks and spencer glasses - raybans
style inspiration: Ian Carmichael is my sort of hero, he did a series in the 1970's called Lord Peter Wimsy ... wherever he got his suits made, I wish I could find that place because they fit him to a t ... he would be my style icon ...
last song you listened to: Fletcher Henderson -Cotton Picker's Ball last album you bought: Rolling Stones - Greatest hits last gig you saw: I went to a 40s weekender - Hep Cats' Holiday Weekender ... and there were 10 bands on there
Chloe, 21
top - primark cardigan - primark shorts - primark shoes - new look ring - h+m glasses - colemans opticians
style inspiration: I don't think anyone in particular ... if I like something then I wear it ... I dress for me really
last song you listened to: Sleeeping With Sirens - The Bomb Dot Com V2 last album you bought: Young Guns - Bones ... (here is a song from that album) last gig you saw: Emarosa/Deaf Havana at Manchester Roadhouse
Rachel, 19
boots - doc martens ... that are incredibly derelict looking! leggings - eBay top - new look earrings - tattoo convention in Portsmouth necklaces - gifts
style inspiration: mainly whatever I like, whatever catches my eye last song you listened to: Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug last album you bought: Juliette And The Licks ... can't remember the name of the album last gig you saw: Mindless Self Indulgence at Rock City, Nottingham
Leah, 20
dress - ecstasy top - insanity ... I made it myself, it was a pair of trousers ... I cut them up boots - schuh skirt - can't remember hat - Very Bazaar, Leicester
style inspiration: I don't really have any, I use (outer) Space ... I stick to Space and rock music
last song you listened to: Ceruleus -Castaway last album you bought: Machine Head's discography last gig you saw: Download Festival 2011 (best band?) ... System Of A Down
Leonora, 21
dress - h+m shoes - not sure earrings - probably top shop necklace - top shop glasses - probably primark
style inspiration: I don't really think I have one ... I basically just wear what I think looks good ... obviously I take inspiration ... mostly I dress kind of quite masculine and I do wear suits and stuff - but obviously I'm wearing a dress today - so I would say probably just people who are quite adrogynous are quite inspirational last song you listened to: The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Gordon Paul last album you bought: I'm currently waiting for it to arrive, it's the new Right Away, Great Captain! album, which is the final in the trilogy (here is a song from the album) last gig you saw:Graham Coxon in Oxford
'WAY WAY BEFORE the raveonettes, best coast, etc....one of the originals of this sound, blending sixties girl group phil spector melodies with 80's alternative feedback noise...... the jesus and mary chain were the first, then the primitives........'
'The yin of girly pop vocals meets the yang of heavy, distorted guitar'
'The Primitives sounded like The Shirelles attacking the Jesus and Mary Chain in the Ramones bathroom'
'They nailed THAT sound two years before My Bloody Valentine'
... ONLY WATCHING THE NEWLY-REFORMED 'PRIMITIVES!! and yes that is a certain Mr Steven M wearing a Primitives shirt!!!
this is my favourite song ... debut single THRU THE FLOWERS before you press play be prepared to fall in love ... hard damn - how the hell is a 34 second video clip affecting me so much ...err cause it's cute as hell ... love Tracey's outfit ... and the random tumbling of confetti ... how perfect it this song??!
here's an early live version - I love how Tracey had a more punky, grunge look going on - seriously how perfect is this band??!!
'Buy this for tracks 13-26 on CD2. Live at the ICA 1987. I was there.
So was Morrissey. It changed my life ....' - Mr. G. D. Norfolk "Spacehead" (Surrey)
the gig was great, I really liked that there was a sense and
feeling in the crowd of people having came out to see and pay respect to this legendary group. the front row was taken
up by guys in Primitives shirts (there from before the support
acts) staking out their place!! the crowd was a mix of original
fans and newer fans including this young guy who was really
into it jostling near the front. It was really heartening to see.
favourite song was THRU THE FLOWERS (obviously haha!)
then WAY BEHIND ME and CRASH. I really like the venue,
I think it could fill the void that was left by THE CHARLOTTE
closing down and also it's in a building that bands come and
rehearse in, so there's always band members milling around
which I kinda like the idea of ... I loved taking photos, every
so often Tracey would do a pose mid song and at that precise
second I thought 'this is what it must have been like all those years ago' ... I was getting this little glimpse ... especially as
looking through the viewfinder everything seems even more
intsense. I was really grateful that I got to see them live ...
and am now even more of a fan-boy! ... I have just ordered
the cd pictured above. I need to hear that legendary 1987
gig ... the guy who was there said it changed his life. wow.
random side note: because I'd never been to the venue before,
I checked out it's location prior to the gig. I knew it was by the
canal and it is, RIGHT TO THE SIDE of it! ... so on the way back
I walked along the canal and it was nice and beautiful and really
peaceful, rushing water and twists and turns - and all this just
minutes away from the city centre. It was just really nice to
find it ... and it's not like that I'll be going there every week or
something, but it's just nice to know in the back of your mind
that it's there ... that it exists.
let me know what you think to The Primitives ... photos coming soon!
actually I didn't. I'd seen the poster last week so I was there to get some photos ... but I love the idea that people who did just go into Caffè Nero for a coffee got this little gig playing out in front of them.
I may have planned to be there, but I knew nothing about the group ... and they were even better than I could have expected. Nestling nicely between the 'Mumford sound and the lush soundscapes of Bon Iver ... just after hearing a few songs I knew I'd be buying their cd (and I did!)
check out some songs below - let me know what you think ... photos coming soon!
