The videos

In the mid to late 80s video equipment was expensive and hard to come by for a thrifty and reasonable poor bunch of musicians. The band worked Saturday and summer jobs to afford to buy their band equipment. Their budgets unfortunately did not stretch to buying video equipment. Luckily “Paul Rees”, a wealthy friend of the band – owned a camcorder. So some live moments have been kept for posterity, they have made their way to digital. Unfortunately a lot is lost to time, but to survive was Paul engineered the studio version “Saturday morning” on his Tascam Porta one 4-track Cassette studio. Which features on the 2nd video below. Paul filmed it on the roof of his St George’s Hills mansion in Weybridge Surrey. The video for “Calling you” was done on a IBM clone 486 computer in the early 90s with a primitive video capture card and very primitive video editing software. The “cutting edge” quad-tel effects and colorization though laughable today were quite edgy at the time. It steals some footage from “Saturday morning”, a rehearsal at the Lecture hall above the Weybridge library (after hours) and a few surviving fragments of a gig in Surrey.

Calling You

“Calling you” was one of the bands best loved songs, in fact it was an anthem. Lyrics were wholly written by “Joe Gomez” and the music by Dave, Will and James. the song is about peoples perceptions, snap judgements and poor communication.

Saturday Morning

Saturday Morning is possibly the bands most popular song. The music written by William Kent, with some help from Dave Kent (Who wrote the lyrics) and Joe Gomez came up with the Chorus. It’s the tale of a working class lad, who gets up in the morning, happy with the anticipation of going out for a bit of fun Saturday night but not everything goes to plan.

I don’t need your love (Part 1)

The song was originally a mournful blues song. It became a somewhat “Dire Straits” like instrumental with Will’s organ playing on the song and the backing 12-string electric guitar. The lead guitar is a little sad mood on the song.

Swing it

Influenced by the Beatles and riff bands of the 1960’s “Swing it” is a saucy rock and roll song, that is infectiously catchy.

Under my Thumb

This stalwart cover of The Rolling Stones song was always a favourite at gigs and at the time wasn’t a hackneyed cover that everyone else was doing like “Brown sugar”, “Satisfaction” or “Jumping Jack Flash” (which they did do as well).