Was Momus supposed to be the indie Serge Gainsbourg? Was that his intention?

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Just wondering??

I know he cites Serge often but I don't really see it. Maybe because Momus does not ooze sex and danger like Serge and has never appeared in an underground film having sex with a Jane Birkin character. Yeah yeah, but Sarah Cracknell is too middle-class to do that.

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Sunday, 8 February 2004 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought he wanted to be the indie Michael MacDonald.

― omg, Sunday, 8 February 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"She came from somewhere out of the Shi-bu-ya..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 February 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know who this Momus bloke is, but on Paul Morley's show tonight at 10.30pm on BBC Radio 6 apparently 'Eddi Fiegel talks about Momus, Scottish experimental group formed in the Eighties by Nicholas Currie.' I guess we'll learn from that what he was supposed to be.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 8 February 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, howdy, Momus. You got me into Serge. So I will always love you for that.

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Sunday, 8 February 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

"Everybody knows that the scene is dead, but there is going to be a metre on your bed that will disclose what everybody knows"

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Sunday, 8 February 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I think of Momus more as the Straight Edge John Cage.

'Put down those mushrumps, Grandpa, let's see if you dare to listen to silence straight!'

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 8 February 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Hello, Nick. Did you ever record with Sarah Cracknell?

― daavid, Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

has never appeared in an underground film having sex with a Jane Birkin character. Yeah yeah, but Sarah Cracknell is too middle-class to do that.

What do you mean? Jane Birkin's father was a major in the army, you don't get much more middle class than that. In fact being middle class is surely a prerequisite for getting involved in all that debauched behaviour.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I think of Momus more as the Straight Edge John Cage.

Dear me, I initially misread that as "the Straight Edge John Cale" ...with much misguided mirth, yes.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"Walter Jeffers had reached his limit. He hadn't had a beer in ten days."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's a snippet from the BBC Radio 6 thingy:

Paul Morley: Tell me something, do you think Nick is ever jealous or surprised that he isn't a success like the Pet Shop Boys or Divine Comedy?
Eddi Fiegel: Well, I think there's definitely a Pet Shop Boys comparison with that track and I think the Divine Comedy certainly have lifted and borrowed a lot of the literary allusions and style of his performing, so yes, I think he probably is quite...
Paul: Is he seething somewhere in the middle distance?
Eddi: I think he may be seething deeply in Tokyo as we speak, actually. To his credit he's carried on, he hasn't seethed to the extent that he's got himself into an even darker corner than he ever was before and has stopped working. He's still turning out these albums, which is to his credit...
Paul: That's interesting, because one of his heroes, one of his mentors if you like, Howard Devoto, went into a kind of Rimbaud silence faced with the fact that no-one was interested in him showing off his references, but Nick, Momus, does keep going, doesn't he. Is he too clever for his own good, do you think?... You never know, a not-clever, not-ironic Momus may well put him where he wants to.. where he should be, really.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul Morley - he's that fat dude that's always on those 'I love 1981' shows, isnt he?

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Sunday, 8 February 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I think he's more of a straight edge John Cougar (pre-Mellencamp)

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 9 February 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, you just made milk come out of my nose.

― J (Jay), Monday, 9 February 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus......You're awlright!

(God knows how much pain you're in, or perhaps none at all if the tai chi* is paying off)

*guessing

― pete s, Monday, 9 February 2004 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, you just made milk come out of my nose.

*bows*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 February 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

careful with that bowing, lest milk should trickle out of your's nose truly too!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 9 February 2004 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

it's always 'milk' w. you ppl

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 9 February 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Is he too clever for his own good, do you think?... You never know, a not-clever, not-ironic Momus may well put him where he wants to.. where he should be, really.

-- Paul Morley in 'self-referential' shockah

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that the concept of Momus is to be a bit like Lawrence (of Felt/Denim/etc.) sans the elegance, talent and wit. Substitute in their place (respectively): self-satisfied juvenilia, cheesy crap synth digtal doodling, and cloying Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

If that is indeed the case, Mr. Currie succeeded brilliantly.

― maurice k., Monday, 9 February 2004 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you, Maurice. I feel a little guilty that you had to buy 27 Momus albums to come to that considered judgement (not to mention 18 albums by Lawrence). You will be richly rewarded with karma in purgatory.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 9 February 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Korma and purgatives?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Is 'nobody being interested in his references' the official reason for HD's retreat into photo librarianism?

― ferg (Ferg), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about the official reason, but the real reason is 'paying the mortgage'.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 9 February 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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