Righto, I’m off to Cardiff Monday to see Squeeze supported by Heaven 17 on Wednesday night.
It seems the tour has been a real success. I haven’t heard a bad word.
So in homage to our amazing talented local lads, what’s your favourite lyrics? No not just song, but lyrics.
I’ll start you off,
’my assets froze while yours had dropped’
There are sooooooooooo many xxxxxx
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They get a gang of villains in a shed up at Heathrow
They're counting out the fivers when the handcuffs lock again
In and out of Wandsworth with the numbers on their names...
Shape up at the disco and I think I've got a pull
I ask her lots of questions and she hangs on to the wall
I kiss her for the first time and then I take her home
I'm invited in for coffee and I give the dog a bone...
"But behind the chalet
My holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet..."
I recall a gig in the nineties at Clapham Grand where it felt like every other punter in the huge audience was an Addicks fan. Difford and Tilbrook stood alone on the stage with just acoustic guitars. "We are going to do a local folk song for you now" said Chris to a huge roar.
He turned his guitar around and patted out the two bar drum pattern at the start of "Up the Junction".
The entire crowd started to sing "I never thought it would happen...".
From start to finish the duo on stage never sang a word.
Absolutely magic.
You can't really go wrong with a back catalogue like Squeeze.
My wife has one over on me though, she has seen Squeeze live back in the day when Jools was still in the band.
And in her steps I trace
The way to live a better life
In some fantastic place
Reduces me to tears every time
And shuffles about in her candle lit hovel,
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens
Most of my favourite lyrics have been mentioned but got to agree with @BowieAddick on some fantastic place.
let’s get outta this place.
PS When we showed the Jimmy Seed film in the Swan last year I met Chris Difford, who was sitting at the bar reading a book (hoping not to be disturbed, I suspect).
Whenever I hear that song it always makes me think of one of my mates, who had absolute hysterics at my scandalised expression when it finally dawned on me what that last line actually meant.