Operator, get me Weston-Super-Mare

In 1985, we made an EP, and this was one of the 4 songs on it. Only this is the original 4-track recording. Unfortunately, it's both me and John and vocals again (nothing against him, but just one of us would have been best). I prefer this original for two reasons.

First, we speeded it up for the EP, so we could fit two songs on each side. Mistake. Better to have sacrificed one of the 4 songs in order to do a better version of this, but we got greedy.

Second, although Curly (Mark Ridout) played a superb solo on the single, this original take was just awesome. The first little solo at just under a minute still takes my breath away.

By the way, Pete had painted "Time For Bed, Boys" on his bedroom wall, mainly to take the piss out of his older brother, because it was one of his sayings.




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