There's a scene at the end of "Face" the 1997 UK gangster movie where Robert Carlisle realizes everything has gone to hell. This song is playing. Damon Albarn has a bit part in the film which is appropriate because this was the winding down of Britpop and Oasis were stomping all over Blur. Longpigs were kind of Britpop with a foot in the Radiohead door. With a few classic songs.
Good enough for me to not only buy the album but when they came out to Australia I bought tickets to the show. Mind you it was at the Mount Evelyn Hotel in Brunswick Street Fitzroy. Basically the same size venues Little Murders are used to. We've even played there many years ago. A few months before we'd seen Muse supporting Ash there. If I had known how big Muse would get I would have taken more notice and not spent so much time at the bar.
Same thing with U2 back in 1979 when they were supporting the Dolly Mixtures. I wrote a live review for a Mod Magazine and that one and didn't even mention U2 who I though were a bit of a throwback to pub rock bands that punk had got rid of.
Anyway Longpigs played this small venue with a good crowd and a good sound. The guitarist Richard Hawley was brilliant but I couldn't get over him having a moustache. Always been offended by musicians with moustaches. I got to meet Tim Rogers for the first time so I'm guessing I was with Poz because I don't know of anyone else who would have introduced me. He was big at the time with You Am I having number 1 after number 1 album.
I have a mental image of the gig. But when I hear this song I see Robert Carlisle in a road side restaurant watching everything slip through his hands.
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