Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own

Where do you stand on The Cooper Temple Clause? I'm a firm believer that it's very easy to evaluate a rock band based purely on their look: Def Leppard - shite. Primal Scream - good (except, appropriately, when they looked shite). This only works for British bands, to be honest. Don't try and apply this rule to Arcade Fire or anyone. They look ridiculous.

So The Cooper Temple Clause, as well as having an unjustifiably cumbersome name, looked crap. They actually wore leather. No-one wears leather in a rock band any more. Not in Britain anyway. In keeping with this, their early music was, at best, unmemorable. I do remember that if the bass player from Echobelly had joined, they would have actually been a better band, though. This is not good.

A little while ago I heard a new record by The Cooper Temple Clause and it sounded EXACTLY like Led Zeppelin. Copying other bands is generally frowned upon, but The Zep are an exception. People try and copy them, but it usually goes horribly wrong. If you actually pull it off, it's a good thing. The Zep aren't making Zep records any more, so someone has to.

So The Cooper Temple Clause are good. Presumably, they don't wear leather any more and the bass player from Echobelly won't have to leave his job with Royal Sun Alliance.