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Originally Posted by Frequency Jules, you interned at Surrey Sound? Did you work with Nigel Gray? |
No that's where they went to when they ran out of money.
I interned at Matrix, Little Russel St, London. Where they STARTED the record. Was before my time there, I started as a tea boy in 1982.
I had seen them live 3rd on the bill supporting Randy California's band - Spirit. It was punk fast, 3 part harmonies and blond hair.. I thought they had ... 'something'. there was an undercurrent of bitterness towards them at the beginning in the UK, they were not real punks, were middle class and had jobs teaching at private schools, in an ad agency and one was the son of a rich ex CIA director. (all uncool attributes in the day and age of punk rock street cred)
In fact there is a theory that the father of Miles & Stewart Copland was in charge of funds to subvert Russia via "artistic initiatives"... and that some of this covert source of US government funding - found its way into the coffers of his own sons IRS Records, a label that was seemingly unsustainable (they had a zillion tiny bands, very few ever making money) Anyway, if the CIA money was going somewhere, better to a record label than a mercenary...
Roxanne was released THREE times before it became a hit. It wasn't instant for these guys.