With Darts, we're playing the Hampton Pool Festival?! With Heaven 17 and we've sold out the 100 Club. All 9 members of the current band were members of Darts over the nine years we were gigging in the 70's and 80's and the current band includes 6 original members: Den, Griff, Rita, Thump, George...
Thanks, written by my good friend Griff Fender (aka Ian Collier), the spivvy looking singer from the band (he's been my best man - twice!). It was our biggest seller.
In those days the BBC wouldn't let the band play live on TOTP so, knowing we were going to mime we would get completely hammered in the bar beforehand. Getting completely pissed and flirting with Legs and Co was the order of the day.
Yes, that's pretty acurate. We were basically a pop band with a punk attitude. We got banned from every hotel chain in Scandinavia and we had overnight stays in a good number of European jail cells. The thing is there was nine of us and two very hard road crew, so we pretty much did what we...
Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about, in actual fact it's Bob Fish, one of the singers laughing but we too thought it sounded like the F word so we decided to leave it in. It caused quite a lot of grief with our record label and radio one.
Cheers, I had a lot of fun. Needless to say I can't remember much of it and I came out the other side with no money and a huge tax bill. Ripped off by the record label and publisher (legally) and ripped off by the manager (illegally). That's why I look after musicians now and try and steer them...