Among the new batch of Lord Huron merch is a poster and shirt depicting 38 characters from the Lord Huron multiverse.
There, in the lower right corner (bottom photo), you'll find Sultan Jack - the character I played in LH's "She Lit a Fire" music video.
The cat Jack is petting is the "studio cat" - a stray that hangs around LH'S L.A. studio and has a way of showing up in cameos roles in LH productions.
Some of the characters are obscure, but the World Enders - the band's fan club - already have them identified and mapped on the group's website.
The drawing is the work of our son-in-law, Tony Wilson.
'24 Hour Party People' – Sex, drugs, and the Manchester music scene on Criterion Channel
24 Hour Party People (2002) brings to life the rise and fall of Factory Records and the Manchester music scene from the glory days of the punk era to the early 1990s, presented as a decade-long party hosted by TV journalist turned entrepreneur, record producer, and bon vivante Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan).
It opens on a fateful concert where Wilson (and many other folks who will become…
Just rewatched 24 hour party people after a long ass time and with all I know now about Partridge and the rest of his stuff and you just can't convince me Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Winterbottom didn't plan and write this kowing they'd get Coogan all along
The #1 song 50 years ago was Stories’ “Brother Louie”.
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Brother Louie
Songwriters: Tony Wilson and Errol Brown
She was black as the night
Louie was whiter than white
Danger danger when you taste brown sugar
Louie fell in love overnight
Nothin' bad it was good
Louie had the best girl he could
When he took her home to meet his mama and papa
Louie knew just where he stood
Louie Louie Louie Louie-e-e
Louie Louie Louie Lou-I-I
Louie Louie Louie Louie-e-e
Louie Louie you're gonna cry
There he stood in the night
Knowing what's wrong from what's right
He took her home to meet his mama and papa
Man they had a terrible fight
Louie nearly caused a scene
Wishin' it was a dream
Ain't no difference if you're black or white
Brothers you know what I mean
Louie Louie Louie Louie-e-e
Louie Louie Louie Lou-I-I
Louie Louie Louie Louie-e-e
Louie Louie you're gonna cry
Louie Louie Louie Louie-e-e
Louie Louie Louie Lou-I-I
Louie Louie Louie Louie-e-e
Louie Louie you're gonna cry
Louie Louie Louie Louie-e-e
Louie Louie Louie Louie Lou-I-I
Louie Louie Louie Louie-e-e
Louie Louie you're gonna cry
Ow
Louie Louie Louie Louie-e-e
Louie Louie Louie Lou-I-I
It was actually Morrissey alone who confronted Wilson about the possibility of Factory signing The Smiths. Like I said, whatever contacts Morrissey could draw on, he did, explains Marr. 'He physically brought the tape to Tony Wilson to play him. I can remember I was working in X-Clothes that day when he rang me up and told me the news that Tony wasn't into it.’ In fact, neither Wilson nor New Order manager Rob Gretton were taken with their Decibel demo, though Marr contends that Factory's legendary 'failure' to sign The Smiths has been somewhat exaggerated in hindsight (not least at the finale of the Factory biopic 24 Hour Party People, in which Wilson receives a visitation from God who chastises him that 'you probably should have signed The Smiths'). — Simon Goddard