Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through And Leave

The Cooper Temple Clause, like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, appear to have a band name consisting of randomly selected nouns.

I love names like that. Redcar in the North-East is a great spot for names consisting of random nouns, so long as you read it as 'Red Car'. So you get 'Red Car Baths' and 'Red Car Library'. Brilliant.

However, we have seen the king of random noun names. It's on a sign in York and it will never be bettered.

It's on a road called Monk Bar and it's a garage selling spare parts for a car called the MG Midget.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

Monk Bar Garage York Midget Spares

Out-noun that bad boy.

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.