There's this sort of stupid urban legend about who the first three punks in Birmingham were. First was Robert Lloyd (I'll come back to him in a later post though The Nightingales have already been mentioned briefly), second was Boy George (as mentioned by Xela above) and third was an oddball by the name of Lawrence (Hayward but he never used his surname)
Lawrence formed his first band Felt in 1979 and they lasted all the way through the 80s until they split at the end of the decade. They kind up invented Jangle Pop way before that scene became a thing. Their first album, Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty is a relatively short thing but its almost perfect and this is the first of it's 6 tracks.
They were quite the darlings of the music press for that decade and I guess their biggest "hit" came with Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins guesting on vocals on Primitive Painter from their 4th album Ignite the Seven Canons and album Lawrence wasn't ever happy with, it was produced by Fraser's fellow Cocteau Twin and husband Robin Guthrie. It's typical LAwrence to be like that, the album was perfect but he dicked about with it and rereleased a second version.
The band eventually split after ten years having released ten albums and ten singles. Lawrence has claimed this was always the plan (he's lying!)
Next band on the Lawrence trail was Denim, a complete change of direction, Denim were influenced by Bubblegum Pop and Glam Rock, they released two albums proper. But again commercial success eluded Lawrance and they eventually split but here's one Mike will agree with. I'm against the 80s from the first Denim album
So again Lawrence moves on to his now still current project Go-Cart Mozart, though he has recently just changed the name to Go-Kart Estate. It really is a continuation of Denim but was originally just a side project of Denim. There are lots of Birmingham references throughout and he's much more humourous these days (intentional or not), This one is called Mickie Made the Most but it also references Gary Shaw and the Villa
Lawrence also co-wrote this with Shampoo. Blisters and Bruises
Birmingham's (via Water Orton) finest musical oddball. He should have had more success than he's had
He's convinced he'll have a Number One album at some point. he deserves it.