Popstar Feets

Ooohhh... smart shoes. Scuffed - yes, but still smart. I'm very glad that all our indie boys go for either canvas trainers or proper shoes. None of that white trainer malarkey. These belong to Tom from The Paddingtons. Their debut album is being produced by Owen Morris, the guy who did Oasis' Definitely Maybe, and should be one to definitely look out for (especially as Tom is so so pretty).

More converses. When I become PM and reintroduce milk to primary schools I shall also put a production limit on that cursed Converse factory. Risking white shoes in the rain is Sam Herlihy from Hope of the States. The photo quality looks weird but forgive me, it was very late at night, and my tiny camera flash can't do these clean shoes justice. More first name number crunching - the second Sam here.

These boots have a bit of history behind them. Their owner, Ryan from The Cribs, doesn't like them but told me they were made by the same man who used to make the shoes for the Beatles. They've signed to Wichita and even have some Japanese fan sites; so maybe, in 30 years time I'll be shuffling my zimmer frame around a gig, get a new shoe photo, only to be told that "the guy who made these shoes, made the shoes for The Cribs too..."

Hmmm... I wonder how many of last year's 'NME cool list' I have the shoes of so far. I shall investigate and report back. John made it in at number 30 as part of the much loved Neils Children. But it would be wrong to give you the shoes of only John, simply because he made it onto the list, so instead I bring you the entire Neils Children clan. They're competing with Akiko from Comanechi for the best socks award here. Number crunching time - the 6th band on here to have ever supported Art Brut. - the 2nd threesome. - the 2nd full band shoe line up.

If guitar playing and shoes are positively correlated then these are the most powerful shoes in the world. Jonas from Be Your Own Pet is complete beast of a guitar player. These shoes have travelled from SXSW, via the Rolling Stone 'Top 10 Artists to Watch' list, to these sunny shores to wow us. Simple canvas shoes, perfect for spring. Yum Yum.

Now I know I always say "these may be the best shoes so far", but it seems as time goes on the quality of the shoes goes up too. These beasts of boots belong to Ed Harcourt. He's now in a band called Wild Boar who sound far heavier than his solo stuff. Maybe he wears these for the band gigs and ballet pumps with wine spilt on them for his solo gigs. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. I could bore you all for years with how much I like Ed. Info for you number crunchers: he is the third Edward on the site.

Blood! Gore! Drama! One song into their set at Club Infinity, Dev from Test-Icicles, jumped on a broken glass whilst on stage. He shortly passed out from blood loss and collapsed on the floor to the cries of horror of the audience. Yikes. I hope he still wears these shoes and that they didn't have to chainsaw the left shoe off in an ER style drama. Shoes with blood on. Not for kids but possibly a new trend for the street. You'll see Sienna Miller with blood on her vintage designer boho supreme stilettos on the cover of Vogue next month.

Now I knew I could rely on the boys from Delays for some smart footwear. They even have shoes that look like they're made from walnut and should instead be the top of a nice writing desk rather than a pair of shoes.

Broken shoes and cigarettes - that's a proper rock n roll image. Though they are Marlborough Lights (sorry - legal worries - gold) so he's not that hardcore. It's Charlie from Chineapples , east end boys who are about to take over our world. So long as they don't fall on their derrières when walking along in such shabby footwear.

Tattoos? Fishnets? Holes in fishnets? Grr... Alixus from The Violets - the feistiest lady in pop punk. And no, she doesn't have some hairy extra limb sticking out from her right leg. As far as I know she has no extra limbs anywhere. It's just the arm of Joe, a fellow Violet.

A Rhesus monkey was the first primate to go into space, Wayne from Rhesus is never going to get into space in these shoes. I think they'd crumple into a ball and destroy his feet on take off. I like them though, more suitable for dancing in maybe than Martian mountain trekking.

Sarah claims to be a strict, but not yet hardcore vegan, and so apologises to everyone for wearing leather shoes. She is however, in both Wet Dog and The Rocks, who are both ace, so I'll let her off. My argument that they were sparkly and therefore morally acceptable didn't really work with her.

How about this for a ballet pose? Very pretty. Great shoes too. So scuffed. I love white shoes. Shows a lot of confidence. A bit like men who wear pink. He blamed this feat of nature on an accident in his early years. I've tried it myself, it's not an easy pose. This wannabe Darcey Bussell is Johnny from Dogs. He'd look great in tights.

I did warn you all I was after an Art Brut collection. Today marks the 3 down, 2 to go stage. As mentioned in a previous entry I did get them on different days. Its not as easy to track these guys down as you'd think. This is Ian Catskilkin, guitarist extraordinaire. All I have left to get is Fredie and Mike, then my collection is complete. Hurrah.

80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster. Now there's a long band name. Longest on the site yet. More scruff and dirt on shoes here, are our favourite stars moonlighting in the territorial army. This is Guy and I don't think he'd make a very good soldier. Its just as well he's ace in his daytime job.

I like these shoes. "blue and green should never be seen". Pah. George Riley, the bass player from 10,000 Things, is clearly proving grandmothers everywhere wrong. I think the shoes on the floor in the background belonged to Sam, George's brother and also the lead singer. George clearly got the style genes over the vocal chord genes.

My first whole band I think, these are the Death From Above 1979 boys -Sebastien Grainger, the drums/vocal man and Jesse F. Keeler, in charge of bass and synth. Apologies for the photo, it was a last minute encounter so had to make do with a camera phone. I think the black shoes make up for it though, I like the blue laces on black shoes thing. They're both wearing Pumas, do I smell the whiff of sponsorship?