I love the Housemartins, in the sense that I can think of precisely two songs by them, only one of which is in my record collection in any form at all, and that is Caravan of Love on a TDK 'taped-off-the-radio' twenty years ago practically to the day.
Their other song that I adore I only need to carry in my head, but nevertheless it's great to find it on YouTube, in a wonderful clip filmed in, of all places, Farnworth. Obviously a much cherished tape that somebody's played a million times before uploading onto YT. Still sounds fabulous, however flat it is...
Although I have only been nightclubbing about five times in my life (and hated each time), I did a lot of discos in my first couple of terms at University and no disco was complete without Happy Hour. Or Don't Leave Me This Way, Walk This Way and In the Mood. Nottingham University, at the cutting edge of Indy. Not.
