The Ex-Boyfriends - Tuesday Afternoon

This track was the soundtrack to the pangs of wanderlust I experienced in my midteens and to many of the experiences I endured in the subsequent months having run away to a faux bohemian squat, living with a bunch of hippies and sampling all the delights a bed in an attic in a squalid flat during winter can offer. Having run away from the sticks to go to college, I soon discovered the not inconsiderable charms of eating four pence beans, wearing big jumpers and staring out the window worrying about anything and everything inbetween fits of dressing up and getting drunk, surrounded all the while by terrible artwork and typewritten poetry, flitting from gig to gig to club to club, quite convinced of how meaningful everything was and the earnestness of being sad.



These days I have time off again and this afternoon it's raining so this seemed like a fitting tune to have as my second post; it's a great piece of low budget upbeat indie for moping in bedsits and watching the rain out of the window to. The Ex-Boyfriends were a small band from London, this is the only track of theirs that I was ever really aware of, but it's an absolute winner. I can't find much information about them sadly, if anyone has any please feel free to let me know, in the meantime enjoy the mp3.

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Bawl - Some People Need Others

I used to see posters for Bawl all over Notting Hill when I was a youth, mostly peeling adverts for their single Beyond Safeways attached to telephone junction boxes, and there's something about listening to them that evokes a lot of memories of walking around town in the winter rain, with bag full of schoolbooks and a cassette walkman supplying vaguely distorted and wobbly melancholia to soundtrack another sodden traipse around the back alleys of West London, catching the glare of the lights under the Westway, staring up at the sky and catching rain in my mouth, living my life in the movies, conjuring suburban ghosts and spending the lunch money I'd saved up on shiny black vinyl from Rough Trade.



Quite what point I'm trying to make here escapes me so I'll shut up, but here for your delectation is a track called Some People Need Others by the amazing Bawl, who later had to change their name to Fixed Stars after some legal shenanigans. Bawl were great, if you like this one then I definitely recommend Beyond Safeways and the album Year Zero. You can also check out Pony Club, the band that they became after Fixed Stars.

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