When I think of this song I'm standing outside Rob Wellingtons' dads factory in Nunawading. It's where The Fiction used to rehearse each week. Upstairs in the offices. Banging away at Rob's and my tunes. Sometimes we would come down on the weekend on a Sunday afternoon. One Sunday we had a photographer come down to do a band shoot. I had just bought and taped this record so I had my car doors open playing this song as we had our photos taken. This was the second defining Buzzcocks moment for me. Boredom was like something from another band. But this song was punk pop. This was the kind of music that I wanted to make. Maybe I could. We were getting our photos taken. we had started getting gigs constantly. And my writing was starting to move away from punk epics like Negative Fun to pop songs like Things Will Be Different.
Twenty years later we supported the Buzzcocks at the Prince of Wales. Joey from Dollsquad asked for her records to be autographed. So I struck up a small conversation with Pete Shelley who came from Manchester. "Ever been to Blackpool?" He had a relatives who lived near there. So instead of talking about some of the most influential songs of my life I discussed the Blackpool Illuminations.
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