Q – I have a vivid memory of seeing you perform the song “Mainstream” on The Last Resort (with Jonathan Ross) Channel 4 – I guess in 1987. Is that a show you particularly remember doing? If so – I wonder if you were really as nervous as you looked, and whether that was because you were performing with the house band rather than the Commotions?
It was a great performance anyway (odd choice of song I thought – as that was not the single) – I wish that someone could ld find a copy on an old VHS and upload it to youtube as I’d love to see it again 20+ years later!
A – I wish I has a tape also. Was I with the Commotions? I did a few Red Wedge gigs around then with just drum machine, a synth and a guitar. The title track was always my favourite song on Mainstream and the vision for it was very much mine, on a record which was a strange group effort, so I guess I pushed it…