Foxtrot Echo Lima Tango

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Foxtrot Echo Lima Tango features contributions from (deep breath):
Gary Ainge, Paul Becker, JC Brouchard, Thomas Chatterton, Ben Clancy, Martin Davies,
Anh Do & Matt Fishbeck, Dickon Edwards, Lora Findlay, Alistair Fitchett, Tim Gane, Chris Heath, Julian Hyde, Rui Kalda, Paul Kelly, Phil King, Ben Knight,
Sybille Lacroix, Lucy McKenzie, Alasdair MacLean, Alan Michael, John Mohan, Kevin Pearce, Scott Portnoy, Brian David Stevens, Marco Thomas and Emily Wardill.



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Felt were a 1980s British alternative rock band, named after the way Tom Verlaine enunciated the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus", and led by Lawrence (his surname, Hayward, was never listed in any record credits or press). Lawrence and drummer Gary Ainge were the only constant members (though Ainge is not featured on Felt's first release, recorded solo by Lawrence before the band formed). Felt are often cited as a major influence by Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, as well as by American alternative rock group The Tyde. The band released ten albums and ten singles in ten years and then disbanded.

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I wanted to work in a way that would subvert a priori intentions.
I wanted to find a way to generate unpredictable, indeterminate consequences.
The first experiments were with ropes and rags, then thin felt, then heavy industrial felt.
Of course I had proposed the work Steam before using felt.

-Robert Morris

"The early felt works had multiple positions;
sometimes thrown on the floor and hung on the wall.
But once the works were photographed nobody wanted to hear about alternative positions.
And of course works on the wall are easier to deal with than things on the floor
so the wall option became the preferred position.
I supposethis illustrates Duchamp's remark about how art quickly loses its aesthetic smell."

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