It was 1987 our old guitarist Mark and Rich had been ensconced in London and Gordon Tucker had joined Ross Bradford in bringing St Andrews student band life support into a proper band with occasional bits of timing and practice.
The job I'd taken in 1985 saw me working more and deadbeating less. We had the money to go into the studio now as well. So life support and hawking deadbeat tapes around the A & R guys was more my modus operandi. Throw in drinking and it was mental. A lot of alcoholics went dry at the end of the 80's and good luck to them, I of course didn't.
It is to my crying shame that I never got the label started and funded more demoes but I did find a few pints. I got seconded to London to find the missing £600m around 1987 and spent Monday to Friday finding it and then flying home.
Every day of every week involved a pub crawl home. When we moved to broadgate that involved the railway tavern but it was always the globe.
Sometimes we'd get a pint at wood street.. I don't remember it like this. It was still a pub in the great council scheme of the Barbican although by this time all council tenants had long since gone.
I love the sign saying no drinking outside. That's new in the last 40 years.
I stayed on the 29th floor and rarely used it for the weekend as I always went home.
Finally if we had the energy we'd go over to the Sutton arms. There was a guy who played there on a Thursday and we always went in.
One night he said he was of to Austria so I pitched for Rich and I to play. We brought 50 from the work and the boy was delighted. The following week we forgot to bring the work, and the rest is history!
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