Don't have a clue where I first heard this song nor where I picked up the record. Though I think it was while I was in England in early 1980. I didn't hear it on Melbourne radio that's for sure. Actually, I have a few of these well-loved singles which are in my record selection and I don't know where they come from. Sale bins in Indie record shops. Small articles in NME. Singles reviews. Live reviews. A combination of reading about stuff and then finding it cheap.
This song was absolutely brilliant. Couldn't stop playing it to everyone that came round. I was kind of obsessed with the Moondogs for about six months. I bought their other singles and although great 45s they didn't have the same impact. This one was almost up there with the Undertones singles. I even wrote a kind of homage to them in one of my early songs. "After The Fire" I adapted the opening guitar refrain to my song.
I thought they disappeared after a bunch of singles but reading about the Moondogs I found they even had their own TV show.
Named after an early John Lennon group name there was for a brief moment something magical about the Moondogs. When Little Murders got up to Sydney later in the year I found a few fellow Moondogs fans. Seems they had a bit more popularity up there.
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