Such a fantastic song even if it was a Disco song at at time when disco was a filthy word. Actually there's quite a few disco songs thta I love. Something like this harks back to the old soul and Motown records. I liked this song so much I convinced the first line up of Little Murders (what we now call the Clint Small era) to cover it thinking it would go over a smash. My enthusiasm wasn't matched by the crowds however and the song didn't stay in the set long.
The first time we played it was at the Daylesford Hotel. We had a regular once a month gig there that had started back in the Fiction days. I remember the pub owner telling us the two most popular bands were us and a band called Men At Work. Same thing at the Market Hotel in Prahran. Never got a chance to see him but they did go on to be pretty big. So I saw them on the telly.
The Daylesford pub had a band room with a home-made mirror ball nade with mirrors stuck on a small plastic dustbin. In the winter we'd get there book into rooms and then go down and have a brandy in front of the open fire. Once it even snowed.
Actually Daylesford was also when bruce milne stopped being our manager when he couldn't get his own room and ended up sleeping on the floor. That was the end for him.
Also the first time we played there when I was in The fiction the billboard outside said as featured on Countdown when they got us confused with La Femme. Nigel rennard had organise the gig at first and the pub must of misheard. We neber did get to play on Countdown even when She Lets me Know was top of the RRR charts for 6 weeks because as he said " Countdown is not a talent show for unknown bands" Lovely. The next week he had some Box Hill band wearing masks. Fun days indeed.
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