Taken from the "Silver" single released on Blyth-Jex School Records in 1977. There's a bit of a sixth form project feel about this one, recorded in a studio at the University of East Anglia and as a fundraiser for a school theatre in Norwich. One could easily suspect that the band were pawns in the game of a drama teacher bent on putting some of his tiresomely worthy doodlings onto wax. Let's not forget that this was the age where the National Front and the Anti-Nazi League were scrapping it out in every inner-city, so a little bit of politics in the classroom was no bad thing. Thankfully, the kids inject a nice bit of pep to the track and end up sounding like some prototype of the Police. Hmmm, maybe we might be getting close to identifying that teacher with a social conscience…or maybe not. The cut was penned by Graham Wilson and perhaps it was he who was normally known as "sir" on a weekday. He doesn't feature in the band, who all look painfully geeky. Step forward Tim Page, Helder de Souza, Jamie Merriman, Philip Sellars, Colin Brady and Alex Moles: your teenage sins have finally been uncovered. |
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