The Buzzcocks kept releasing one brilliant single after another. Then they released this magnificent track. Little Murders used to rehearse for a short while in a basement at the back of a shop in Smith Street Collingwood. There was no natural light. It was kind of musty and damp. But it was great place to rehearse and we had just got Stuart beatty to join the band after letting our original guitarist Clint Small go. As we got our new set together I tried to get the band to cover this song. We went through it a few times but it never gelled for us. Anyway when I hear this song now it takes me back to that musty rehearsal space at the back of Smith Street. Later on Norm from Wardour Studios turned it into a recording studio. Six of the tracks from the Stop Retrospective had their vocals recorded there by me, Mick Barclay and Paul, the Weddoes original guitarist. Another three tracks were recorded there with me, Mick and Adam Learner (from Blue Ruin) Adam's new band sometimes covers this song. Small round world indeed.
You spurn my natural emotions
Make me feel like dirt, I'm hurt
And if I start a commotion
I run the risk of losing you
What is worse
Ever fallen in love with someone
Ever fallen in love, in love with someone
Ever fallen in, in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with
Back in the late eighties I got together with a bunch of mates to be backup band for a mutual mate who had roadied for us....he wanted to sing in a band, so we said "sure...one gig and one gig only". We rehearsed 12 songs (some only once, and it showed on the night)....but this one we had down pretty well. Coincidently, a few weeks later the Buzzcocks played the old Palace in St. Kilda and somehow (in my drunken state) I managed to get backstage and ended up talking to Pete Shelley. I mentioned our previous gig and told him we'd played this song....thousand yard stare!!
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