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Nicole to thread.

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

So red the rose.

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

That's Romo though isn't it? Especially as it's Orlando.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. True enough! Dickon to thread too, then, if he still lurks here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Note also the rose and the rilkean posture. It's Romo. OH MY GOD, what if electroclash was Romo all along? New thread!!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, of COURSE Electroclash is Romo, but with the benefit of being NYC-connected rather than Camden-connected. Always a good idea. having said that, Nancy Boy (Donovan Leitch) were a NYC mid 90s Romo band. So I think it must be the timing. It were all Adidas-Britpop-Oasist hegemony back then. I fought the bores and the bores won.

Times are clearly slightly easier now for the mascara-inclined young men. Except now I get people saying "you're clearly copying Interpol". Pah!

http://www.thisisromo.com - my slack pages.

Apparently young Orlando B's parents were Woolf fans, hence the name.

― Dickon Edwards (Dickon Edwards), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing could cheer me up today, but thanks for tryin'.

― Lars (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll tell you though, it did a little somethin' for me.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Nancy Boy (Donovan Leitch) were a NYC mid 90s Romo band.

I still love their first two (and only?) albums. A double bill of them and Romania would have been godlike in 1995.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Nancy Boy did a wonderful, impossibly catchy song called "Johnny Chrome and Silver", which still fills the floor at Stay Beautiful (when the club's on).

I do think that if NB formed in 2001, they'd be having Electic Six-sized chart success by now. In fact, "Danger, High Voltage" sounds VERY like Nancy Boy indeed.

― Dickon Edwards (Dickon Edwards), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Looking again at Orlando B's photo, that Nu-Mullet hairdo reminds me about an ad on TV.

In it, a young man tries some unfashionable beverage (Lipton Ice Tea, I think), and, thus spurred on, gets a mullet haircut because that too is, the ad implies, the height of unfashionable. Comic effect intended.

But the thing is, the Nu-Mullet (aka Electroclash Mullet, Hoxton Mullet, Soho Mullet, Shoreditch Mullet, Ironic Mullet etc) IS the very height of fashion right now, not least as evinced on this Face cover.

Conclusion? The advert must have been made either a while ago or by a company that doesn't have offices in London.

― Dickon Edwards (Dickon Edwards), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, a mullet's supposed to be short in front. That's just big hair.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It's like a mullet but upside down, get with the style, Andrew.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Orlando's hidden woman emerges, and she's feeling bitchy.

His tranny look is missing the stubble, to really pull it off.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I did think he looked a bit like John Taylor when he was on some entertainment show last night. But not enough.

― Lars (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Looked like John Taylor? He might have, but with less rocker-paunch. However, if he's on, he might have had some Champers chilled, and held between the legs of the obligatory celebrity groupie.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant a young John Taylor. Now John Taylor looks like a loaf of bread.

― Lars (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.duran.freeserve.co.uk/artistpjt02.jpg vs. http://www.wlra.us/wl/wlbread.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Aha, thanks Dickon, looks like I've only stumbled on a truism. I'm new here.

What I like is when a style that is universally regarded as a bit of a joke, that didn't catch on, is suddenly everywhere under a different name - and no-one realises. Except the people who tried to make it happen the first time around - who, as you say, are promptly accused of imitating the second wave. (Although in the case of romantic pop and boys in eyeliner, we're probably on our thirtieth wave by now, and that's only looking back 150 years or so - why do these things always originate in London?)

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

why do these things always originate in London?

Since the beginning of time, London was the land of the rent-boy: deft with the sell, the quip and later, the eyeliner brush.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Dudes, Canada totally already did this look circa 1987.

http://www.gowan.org/images/moonlight.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Well Im sure the rest of the world gets those moonlight desires.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Canada always combines it with a mullet.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

John Taylor? Nah. Put the goth-elf shoes on him and it's a young Nick Cave. Sigh.

Not even as cute as the SHB out of Junior Senior. (Who clearly wants to paint my toenails. Cobalt blue, please.)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Canada always combines it with a mullet.

Touché.

If I wanted to be directed to the "Use Other Facts" thread, I'd point out that that guy is in Styx now.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Gowan doing the Strange Animal dance to Mr Roboto would send me to heavens etc.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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