I saw a whole gang of Pearly Kings lording it around the Somers Town Festival this weekend. I was kind of amazed that they still exist. Does anyone know any? They're actually pretty cool, in a koumpounophobic nightmare kinda way.
― D. Vance Wimpole (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)
i am going to assume that the reason i do not understand this question has to do with britishness of the subject at hand?
― PLURrrrrrggghhhh (jjjusten), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:44 (sixteen years ago)
Very very British. The sole exceptions:
http://www.kxci.org/blog/uploaded_images/icky-thump-722797.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:46 (sixteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/Pearlykingandqueen.jpg
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)
yeah, pretty much. i'm trying - and failing - to think of what might pass for an American equivalent.
they're almost like a proto-bling based on buttons.
― D. Vance Wimpole (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)
ok wow
― PLURrrrrrggghhhh (jjjusten), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:49 (sixteen years ago)
I never quite realised what the White Stripes were copping with that look, but I guess it's been traditional rockers garb for some time.
http://img2.allposters.com/images/SIGPOD/66-PT-PearlyKing-a785.jpg
― D. Vance Wimpole (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:50 (sixteen years ago)
oh see i always thought that they were doing a riff on the nudie suits:
http://images.heritagecoin.com/images/hnai/300/606/606016001o.jpg
but now that i see this whole pearly king thing that seems spot on.
― PLURrrrrrggghhhh (jjjusten), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:54 (sixteen years ago)
Pearly Kings and Queens, to be more accurate
― Nuts, whole hazelnuts, HEEUUUUUUUURGGHHH! (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:55 (sixteen years ago)
... as in the Traffic song, "Pearly Queen", which might have left their American fans in a state of (even more) befuddlement in the late 60s
― Nuts, whole hazelnuts, HEEUUUUUUUURGGHHH! (Tom D.), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:56 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.cockneypride.co.uk/cockney2.jpg
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:57 (sixteen years ago)
http://citynoise.org/upload/24843.jpg
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 16:59 (sixteen years ago)
Somthing curious about the way they wander about. Just idling here and there at car boot sales or down the sea side. They're almost like a displaced people.
― D. Vance Wimpole (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:05 (sixteen years ago)
I met these chaps:http://www.flickr.com/photos/22565628@N02/2218459455/