More old stuff
Apr. 29th, 2005 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksBack in 1979/1980 I was coming to the end of my postgraduate/teaching gig in Canterbury, and one early summer's day in Keynes College there was a "mod revival" concert, attended by what I then thought of as spotty youths from the town (and, indeed, still do). This was in the wake of the Jam success. Anyway, one of the biggest bands of this short-lived mod movement was Secret Affair. Their first gig was supporting The Jam at Reading University in early 1979, so they might well have been the support that I saw for the Jam in thee sports hall in Canterbury, although I don't remember whether this was the case.
Their "anthem", as it were, was the song "My World", and their first album was "Glory Boys". But I had forgotten all of this, and I never got hold of their second album, Behind Closed Doors. But I have it now, and what a cracker it is. I may seek out their third and last album, Business As Usual.
The greatest album of this mod revival period was "So Far Away" by The Chords. But Behind Closed Doors is interesting because it is not typically mod(ish) in sound. Indeed, I'm not sure where I would place it in the Brit pop spectrum, but it is remarkably, er, refined. Muted trumpets, for goodness sake. Top notch.
Their "anthem", as it were, was the song "My World", and their first album was "Glory Boys". But I had forgotten all of this, and I never got hold of their second album, Behind Closed Doors. But I have it now, and what a cracker it is. I may seek out their third and last album, Business As Usual.
The greatest album of this mod revival period was "So Far Away" by The Chords. But Behind Closed Doors is interesting because it is not typically mod(ish) in sound. Indeed, I'm not sure where I would place it in the Brit pop spectrum, but it is remarkably, er, refined. Muted trumpets, for goodness sake. Top notch.
