The Distractions told us that Time Goes By So Slow, and I cannot argue with their perspective.
However, here’s a thing. This photo is The Primevals, just off-stage at Level 8, Strathclyde Uni, Glasgow, supporting The Gun Club, on 20th October 1984. Everyone in the photo is still in some level of contact, and 3 of us are still in The Primevals.
That gig was forty years ago. Forty years before that, on 20th October 1944, the Second World War was still in full flow. General MacArthur returned to the Philippines, and Soviet and Yugoslav troops freed Belgrade from the German Occupation that had lasted 1287 days.
In some ways, that gig feels like last week – I can still picture the shenanigans of getting in – “of course a five piece garage band requires an eleven man road crew”, as we blagged our friends in, setting up my ACTUAL SPARE GUITAR alongside a fur-covered monster that our bassist wanted to have represented at the gig, and two other pretty guitars that were not actually gig-ready but looked nice in front of my Fender Twin Reverb, and, of course, the frenzy of the gig. We plated our » Continue Reading.