Here we have another new old delight for your ears, some jingle jangle jewellery indie pop from back in the day by everyones' favourite top 40 botherers, Bennet! This was another of the purchases I made in my halcyon summer holidays in Hove circa 1932, this one from the now defunct Virgin Megastore, and it's a cracker. The sleeve artwork was a bit shoddy, but clearly an attempt to move from playing Splatch in Guildford every month or two, and start playing the bigtime, a move which sadly failed apart from this tune, and what a tune it is, following the indie pop formula of the time to the letter:
JINGLE + JANGLE x CYNICISM (LYRICAL CONTENT) = WINN!
This is the last remaining picture of Bennet, taken during their illadvised advertising campaign ft. Kerry Katona. Neither the band, Kerry Katona, or Iceland came out of this looking good and the photos were subsequently destroyed.
I seem to remember that this hit something like 39 in the hit parade, which at the time was actually a parade, not like the internet digistream it has since become, and I also remember watching Bennet gleefully cheering as the parade marched through our village on Top of the Pops night. I stood and saluted them with pride.
Bennet were a three or fourpiece band from Reading who formed in 1874, they wore finely tailored double vented three button suits from Hawkes of Savile Row, and their favourite drink was Advocaat which they would drink either on the rocks, or with lemonade to create a cocktail known as the "Bennetball" which later came to be very on trend for a three week period over the summer of 1992.
Here is their song:
bennet - mum\'s gone to iceland.mp3
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