Seminal icon Marcel Proust acknowledged that “remembrance of things past, is not necessarily a remembrance of things as they were”. Paying homage to an era gone by is only worth half your time if to be a sub-cultural conservationist, one…
Tag: Walt Disco
Walt Disco unveil ‘Hey Boy (You’re One Of Us)’
When faced with the promise of poetic liberty, the tale of The Little Mermaid is fable. Is beauty the price we pay to walk-the-walk towards freedom or is it defiance, theatrics or even St Vincent, that spins our heartstrings into…
Walt Disco release their anthem to androgyny with new single and manifesto ‘Cut Your Hair’
Two years ago, a friend who runs a record shop told me how unbelievably quickly Adam & The Ants records were selling among college students. If the sales trend, then, wasn’t making much sense, now it’s evident what the consequences…
Sports Team and Swim Deep play surprise sets at Annual Margate All Dayer
The Margate All Dayer, Hosted by Holm Front, Arts Cool and So Young, has become a firm date for the diary following a second successful year of packing out a bus and carting off the Sports Team faithful down to…
Walt Disco share new single ‘Strange To Know Nothing’
Whether you know them for their dark, angular, synth doused sound or their live shows that are always subverting expectations of male indie bands, you will no doubt have been mesmerised by the uncompromising artistry of Walt Disco. No strangers to the drama…
We chat to Glasgow’s Walt Disco about uni drop outs and the 80’s
Pluck Shame’s Charlie Steen from the blood-thirst of the bull-pit into the decadence of the ballroom and you have Walt Disco’s pirouetting, shirtless, tartan-pant wearing frontman James Potter, whose tremulous, death-on-the-dancefloor, Billy Mackenzie-esque vocal typifies the glamour and flamboyance of…