Record Play Pause by Stephen Morris

Author:Stephen Morris
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781472126191
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2019-05-15T23:00:00+00:00

The two memories that stay with me from those sessions are getting the keyboard player from Sad Café to come down with his Minimoog and add a synth bass line to ‘No Love Lost’, and asking him if it could make other noises apart from the one he was playing. He took it well, though. I just liked the noises. We probably wanted some noise as a substitute for the ‘background tapes’ we wanted to try. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t think we were averse to using the Moog (well, I wasn’t) but somehow our dissatisfaction with the production of the record seemed to muddy the waters a bit. Were we ever satisfied? Will we ever be?

The other was arriving slightly early one day to find a small, ever-so-camp chap recording a jingle for a football pools company.

‘Who the fuck are you?’ Ian probably thought this was John’s idea of getting some backing vocals on the record.

If you do anything often enough you will either get better at it or realise that it’s not for you and never will be, but at least you tried. Either way, you will have learned something important about yourself.

By dint of repetition, I was making progress in the art of persuading people I had never met (and largely never would) to give us gigs. These were mostly in the pubs and clubs of West Yorkshire and took place, without fail, on those dead nights in the middle of the week. So they weren’t the best-attended events, but the theory was that, by word-of-mouth, things would get better. Sometimes, though, there didn’t seem to be any words coming out of any mouths.

At one gig in Oldham there was literally no one there, just the caretaker, Hooky’s girlfriend Iris and her chum Pauline – making a surprise hanky-panky inspection to check up what mischief went on with this earth-shattering band. Oh, and there were two punks who interrupted our set to ask, ‘Are the Prefects on here tonight?’

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