Genre: Pop
Places I remember: Marbeck Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Fantastic Day
Gear costume: Love Plus One
Active compensatory factors: I was really taken by the music of Haircut One Hundred back in the day. It sounded so fresh and bouncy after punk and the terribly serious music of the new wave that followed it.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Fantastic Day
Gear costume: Love Plus One
Active compensatory factors: I was really taken by the music of Haircut One Hundred back in the day. It sounded so fresh and bouncy after punk and the terribly serious music of the new wave that followed it.
This was spring music. Perfect for crisp sunny days in my flat in Windmill Road while I went to training college, a few streets away in Epsom. Wonderfully self-indulgent times.
There is a jazzy edge to the music and the sleeve kind of pays homage to early, innocent times with those knitted jerseys, the short sleeves and the yellow ties. Perfect image.
Nick Heyward is the main man; he wrote most of the songs, sings them and plays lead guitar. A very talented guy. Blair Cunningham, who later played with Paul McCartney, is on drums.
The sax, trumpets and trombone provide a lovely texture and provide a point of difference to all the other bands battling for the airways in 1982.
Where do they all belong? They only made two albums (this is their debut) and I never bothered to track down their second. Mainly because Nick Heyward had left the band before the second was completed.
Where do they all belong? They only made two albums (this is their debut) and I never bothered to track down their second. Mainly because Nick Heyward had left the band before the second was completed.
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