INDIE
Outsider pop chimes with the times
“I’m living on a tenner a day, goodness gracious, a tenner a day,” sings Lawrence in the opening couplet of Mozart Estate’s Relative Poverty – a bleak bop about life on the financial precipice and truly a song for our times.
Cited as a major influence by indie’s finest, from Jarvis Cocker to The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess and Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch, the Birmingham-born cult hero singer and songwriter – no surname necessary, just Lawrence – is far from the first down-on-his-uppers pop star to have found himself living off benefits, nor to sing about the
