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"Look let's be
honest here, we were always a second wave band. The innovators like the
Pistols, the Clash, the Damned were what all the rest were trying to
emulate. How would I describe the sound? "Thick, Fast and Heavy, with a
melodic edge". Some of the tracks I think are really good in retrospect
(No Time, for example)."
Colin Wight Interview
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Everyone's A Winner / Handcuffed MCA 6/1977
How
did the deal with MCA come about?
" Because they were deaf obviously. Only joking; no idea.
Our manager Simon Napier Bell, who incidentally
used to have this big fur coat thrown over his shoulders all the
time, got that together. I think MCA thought they needed a Punk
group cos everybody else had one. But they never really
understood it and marketed it all wrong; just look at the Animal
Games cover."
Colin Wight
Punk 77 Interview
"Simon Napier-Bell got us the deal with
MCA. He was really on the ball. He got us into IBC
studios in London in the middle of the night and we recorded our
first single Everyone’s a Winner in about twenty
minutes. He then had fifteen cassette copies made up and
got a motorbike courier to deliver them to all the main record
companies with a note saying ‘This is London.
If you want to sign us call this number’. It sounds
incredible now but by midday quite a few record companies had
phoned him...we went with MCA."
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Time / Siouxsie Sue/Summer Of Love/Friday On My Mind...11/1977 MCA
" Siouxsie Sue was an
excellent song written by Steve Voice. It was originally called Susie Sue
but Jon Moss suggested we change the title to Siouxsie Sue. I was against
the change but the others liked it. The song had nothing whatever to do
with Siouxsie, it was just a little tale of punks that Steve penned, it
was a good number. Definitely popular with the fans who' d call out for it
all through the set. "
Riff
Regan
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Animal Games LP MCA 1978 ".... listening back to it now I don't think the album is that
bad. Some of the stuff I was doing on it is probably out of
place, but people didn't realise that we were probably one of the
first punk bands to use irony. The guitar intro to Summer of
Love, for example, is meant to be a piss-take. The album is not a
Punk classic, but then how many are."
Colin Wight Punk 77 Interview "I
liked our album Animal Games but on listening to it now... I think it was a shame that we didn’t
slow one or two of the numbers down a bit. It all sounds
too fast and frantic...When we started one of the things we
prided ourselves on was that we were the fastest band
around. Still, the album was very
representative of what we were doing at the time. It was
basically our stage act that we recorded immediately after the Stranglers
tour, so it was very tight."
Riff Regan
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