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Loved the Undertones. Lots of great songs full of pop tunes and guitars and it all just moves along so nicely. A run of brilliant singles. Almost missed this one at the time except my mate Chris Hunter who was in the Subway with me started talking about it one day in his flat in Prahran. When he actually put the single on it was great. I was especially impressed with the long start and then the move in to something else for the verse. When I got to England at the end of 1979 the local newsagent in Lytham St. Annes were selling off all their singles so I managed to pick up a picture sleeve of this as well as nearly every Mod record released to that point. All for 20P each. Great score. And despite some of the rubbish released by a lot of those bands there were some great songs by Purple Hearts, Lambrettas, Secret affair, the Chords and Squire.Plus I picked up Jam and Undertones. Just great.
In 81 I did an interview with Rolling Stone and the interviewer was banging on about Mod and how the wheels would fall off soon. I pushed the fact that while I was a Mod the band the other guys weren't as committed and we were a band the Mods liked in the same way they liked bands like the Undertones.
So we get a big article in Rolling Stone with a headline that reads "We Are Not A Mod Band!". That went down well with my mates. Luckily it came out in late 81 when the wheels were actually coming off the whole Mod thing .
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