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Edna Welthorpe - On Tour 2002

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In One Day The Stevenage Sensation Invades USA. Yes - London's most complex Gilbert O'Sullivan fan is off to see the world. Who can say for sure when [s](he) will return?

This is the thread where we wish EW an epic voyage.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is the thread where we initially wish Edna a speedy reply from the passport office in Peterborough. All sorted yet?

And do keep in touch - they have computers in America. I've seen them.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shouldn't this thread have been titled

IN 2? DAYS THE GREY AND BLACK MUJI MAN INVDAES CHICAGO (edna)?

Knock 'em dead, Mr Lens Man

― David, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is the thread where we initially wish Edna a speedy reply from the passport office in Peterborough

ha ha Jonnie Daniels to thread!

That's one expensive way of getting a passport isn't it?

― chris, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mrs. Welthorpe, I'm sorry that you aren't coming out to California. I hope you have a fantastic trip! Please tell us all about the Cornell boxes at the Art Institute of Chicago when you get back, if you manage to see them. I envy you! Don't let distinguished looking bachelors (or lumberjacks) lead you astray!

― youn, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the land of opportunity. EXPLOIT IT LIKE A CHEAP WHORE.

― Archel, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mrs. Welthorpe, I'm sorry that you aren't coming out to California.

He's not? How sad. :-( All the UK people need to come to California. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Exploitation, cheap whores.....that's our Edna.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh heh. LD to Chicago, er, I mean thread!

― David, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Edna is NEVER COMING BACK! BID YOUR ADIEUS WHILE YOU CAN!

― Mandee, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mandee, my Mum says that your last answer should be on the ILX dreams thread

― David, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A girl can dream, can't she?

― Mandee, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And should.

I wish and hope that all yours come true.

― David, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

here's hoping you get that chick in the car to go go go, Ednie T... (did you see what i...? never mind)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Edna kidnapped by a WANNABE WOLFSHIRT WEARER. Whatever next?

― Ally C, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Chicago? Never heard of it. What's wrong with Butlin's? Is this some kind of brain drain? Have a nice time. Bring us all a stick of rock.

― Sister Disco, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

60s ROCK or 70s ROCK??

― the pinefox, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

exciting.

― richard john gillanders, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

PF = rockist shockah!

― David, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's no shockah shurely.

Hey, Hand - what are you on about? I'd really like to know but you're over my head, as so often.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pinefox you're missing out on a very insignificant scrap of doggerel that I must be remembering incorrectly in the first place since google returns nothing. So it's less "over your head" than "under any radar created ever". Anyway it goes

"a chick in a car and the car won't go / that's the way you spell Chicago"

I have no idea where it comes from or what it even means... it's just One of Those Things.... (I was making a slightly saucy go-go girl reference playing on perceptions of American women and also hoping Stevie's Edna's transport is mechanically sound.... ((though a breakdown on the interstate can lead to some pretty interesting adventures in my experience it is usually offset by a impatient and raging irritation))

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if irritation can be said to rage. I suppose it usually festers.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It could be like a skin rash

― David, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jokes that require a disseration = DUD. (Sorry, Tracer.)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm crushed enough at being cleverly maneuvered into steamrolling my own delicate spiderweb of funny without your gratuitous salt-rubbing, Perry. Damn! Lay off the disserade!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jokes that use the word "disserade" = CLASSIC!

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I need a massage.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thirty two pumps then WOOSH!!!

― bc, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not THAT kind of massage.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 9 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So - is EW ever coming back?

― the pinefox, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have heard that EW Rocks America has got off to a shambolic start and the tour manager has been fired.

― N., Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who's the tour manager?

Perhaps it's 'Bill Graham'. Or - 'Seymour Stein'?

― the pinefox, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since Edna will not swoop down from the rafters, I will confirm that she is, indeed, back in the bosom of the UK, much to my disappointment.

― Mandee, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you sure?

― Graham, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nearly 86% positive.

― Mandee, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

May I just note that none of the rest of you are allowed to come to Chicago without letting me buy you a drink?

― nabisco%%, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

She can be very enigmatic.

― Graham, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nabisco, next time I am in the Chicago area, I would be all for going to the Reflections Lounge on Broadway. That place rules.

― Mandee, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When will Mrs. Welthorpe report back?

― youn, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

is edna and mandee an ilx luv match ?

― anthony, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I stumbled across an early Edna effort from MM in 1992 today. I will refrain from quoting it, since he might object.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go on, Ned, this is the Holy Grail for Ednaphiles. At least tell us what it's about.

― PJ Miller, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

More a bonin' match, Anthony.

― Ally C, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally C!

― N., Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello!

― Ally C, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hello! I must come up to Glasgow very soon to find somewhere to live but the World Cup is getting in the way.

― N., Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah I heard it had been cancelled up there or something.

Do you think Roy Keane is secretly Scottish? I mean they usually come home early from the World Cup too don't they?

― chris, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At least tell us what it's about.

It's about Catwalk, the semi-T. Rex style band Chris Roberts, MM scribe, formed in that year. It is positive.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Was there some contractual obligation for everyone who freelanced for MM around that time to wuv Catwalk. Several SOTWs but I never met any non-journos who liked them.

― RickyT, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually found one single many years back for $2 and picked it up. It is, indeed, very T. Rexy, and sorta pleasant. Allegedly there's one single which features a duet with Kim Deal, so I figured the Breeders fanbase would have chased that one down by now...

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Catwalk - terrific!

'Little Miss Abyss' won Gary 'The Crow' Crowley's Demo Clash 5 weeks in a row, just like Suede's 'Wonderful Tonight'. I have them both on tape and no one is having them because they are actually terrible.

― N., Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Err.. not 'Wonderful Tonight' (tho a Brett Anderson cover of that would be really 'good'). 'Wonderful Sometimes', I meant to say.

― N., Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never heard of Catwalk, but thanks, Ned. I'm just going to have to sort of generate an idea of what the article is like, a bit like Oddbod in 'Carry On Screaming'. Perhaps we could have some sort of competition to see who can accurately predict the most phrases from the article. I'll start: stomping, glitterboot, clatter. Erm... zero points for me, I think.

― PJ Miller, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god. FINE -- unless Edna comes in with some major objections, I'll transcribe the article today or tonight.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh muh god!

― mandee, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh, sorree. Hurry up N.

― Ally C, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Be VERY CAREFUL.

― Edna's Lawyer-Engineer, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm quite happy to wait for 'Here Comes an Ednanova - The Collected Works of Welthorpe 1992-2002'. Don't want to steal its thunder or anything.

― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have Received Permission from a higher source to go ahead and type it up. It will be posted later tonight -- you have been warned. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hooray!

― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I seem to remember posting an elaborate reference to a non-existent Collected Works of EW somewhere ages ago. I can't remember what it was called now. Nor can anyone else. I am looking forward to reading this vintage effort. All EW's existent work was well-turned.

Merry Christmas, Dave!

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread is coming over all Lincoln Cathedral now. Perhaps it should be re-titled 'I Dreamt A Luftwaffe Crime'.

Or is it just a stage it's Passing Through?

― Mooro, Tuesday, 28 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, by popular (?) demand, Edna on Catwalk, from Melody Maker, Aug. 8, 1992:

CATWALK Powerhaus, London

These days it seems like every mouthy lout with a pout and a pair of silvery specs is heralded as the flaming horseman of the puckered lips. They promise to be Saints but invariably turn out to be Greavsies. Tonight, Catwalk are a blessed release from all the hollow talk: they breathe life back into the idea that pop can be a blissful marriage of de rigeur and de profundis. They can skim across the surface like the glam hams, but their souls are submarine. This is the tip of the iceberg on the cake.

With a delicious arrogance they prowl through "Damascus" -- a tune that could toast your hair -- as a mere opening appetizer. It's clear from the start that Chris Roberts has willed a world of his own into being, and the hapless critic can only take the Messy Beat angle and flounder in his (Finnegan's) wake. "Snow Leopards" (the Blonde anima made animate) simply demands that polychrome prose. In a time of thuggishness and formalism, Catwalk reinvent the lyric as an amorous semiosis, songs to the signifier-as-Siren.

"Ballerina Country" is, of course, Roxy rewritten by Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Feeling Feline. Tonight it's a visceral kiss, Roberts playing the Ferryman, stranded between Lolita and Guernica, while the band whip up a black and blue funk. On record, "Shudder" is a delirious tremor, but live it's ignited into a febrile groove by the cool and shaded bassist. The guitarist wigs out while the female singer remains demure and elegantly fanned. So it goes.

The pointlessly fussy will mention Bolan, but really you'd be just as close with Baudelaire, Brodkey or Bukowski. There are 90 tales to pin on this cat. What do I say? Sha-na-na. Angelus Novus.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rock, thy name is Edna!

― PJ Miller, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh! And you have to say that's magnificent...

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)


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