I went to my first gig in 1986, February 27th to be precise, to see Simple Minds on their Once Upon a Time tour. This means that Friends Again had been and gone like a fleeting shadow before I even thought about going to my first concert…
I was clearly slow on the uptake when it came to gig going (I’ve more than made up for it since) as my second ever gig was to see a certain James Grant & Paul McGeechan in their Love and Money guise play Level 8 in Strathclyde Universities students union in October of ‘86 (with Thrashing Doves supporting according to my notes, for any useless fact fans, a band whose career was probably cut short when the milk snatcher claimed to enjoy the video for their single Beautiful Imbalance on an episode of Saturday Superstore…) I developed an unhealthy obsession for the music of Love and Money the result being they were a band I went on to see too many times to mention over the years, and as such they were my gateway drug to the sublime music of Friends Again, and of course the glorious atmospheric sounds of The Bathers.… Read the rest
