Back in 1977 when the Subway were coming together I was writing songs at a furious rate. Some alright. Some atrocious. But with Rob Wellington joining the band and changing the name to the Fiction and also bringing his own songs in I was working harder and harder to get that punk sound. And to get more of my songs in the set. We rehearsed above his Dad's factory in Nunawading. Great place. It had carpet and clean toilets. We recorded one cassette there. Which is still a great little reminder.
One of the songs I brought to the band was called "Robot Love" Rob thought it was great. Although he always thought it was a punk style version of Heartache until he actually read the lyrics. He thought it should have been a robot replacing the blow up doll in Roxy's song. I even tried to rejig the lyrivcs to accomadate him but couldn't get it to work. Who's going to make love to a robot?
A few years later Stuart used the song to create a theme song for Bruce Milne's Fast Forward cassette magazine. 30 years later a band called Sputnik Penguin recorded their version and put it up on their MySpace page. The drummer was Vic from the Fiction.
With "Every Dream Home a Heartache" I've seen Roxy Music do it 3 times in concert. It never fails to blow me away. When I first bought the album back in the early seventies I didn't pay the song too much attention. I was into the faster bits. Then I went to Festival Hall in 1975 and heard the song live. And yes it "blew my mind". Just that tense build up and then Kaboom!
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