09/02/2011

You know what it’s like in your first week at college. You invariably get to Thursday and a few people in your class suggest going for a drink. And it’s in these few hours that friendships are formed which can last for years.

I sat down with a guy from Luton called Greg and we had nothing in common musically. NOTHING. He liked Bob Dylan. I liked The Newtown Neurotics. We might never have become mates if it hadn’t of been for this record.

I can’t even remember who brought it up, but they were a local band to him – and I’d bought the record after hearing it on the John Peel show. The coincidence that we both liked this utterly obscure seven-inch single led to us becoming best pals throughout our journalist training and beyond.

Oh and there’s the small matter that of it being the first record to feature a very young Richard Norris on guitar. Norris, would later go on to have hits with The Grid and form a musical partnership with DJ Errol Alkan.