Hold on, have Fun Boy Three just declared war on America?
It was The Colourfield for me, really. I mean, it was everything; basically every single second, but The Colourfield is what I really go back to. I wasn't a mod. Not at the time. I've always been slow to embrace the new in any movement and at 15 I was still in that arsey 'I know best, I'm not following the herd' mindset which so often stopped me appreciating greatness. So I railed against those in school who took on the parka. Mistake. That's the way I remember being. But at the same time... obviously Gangsters was brilliant; a massively exciting sound that arrived with literally no precedent. Obviously I know now that there were precedents but to me then it was so new. And Too Much Too Young was incredible and vital, A Message To You Rudy wonderful pop, the politics were mine and the attitude was unreal. And that was just from the first album of a band whose vocalist was only 4 years older than me. Ghost Town. Ghost Town is the sound of that actual week in