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What ho... sed de ting! |
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Welcome to \"not alot of people know that, part 5.\" Yes, you lot out there, ah you're so lucky! How can you |
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be getting so lucky, my God! Flight of Icarus in those grubby dirty by now horribly sticky little fingers and |
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hands and grubby palms, and oh what else is grubby, I don't know. Flight Of Icarus, I've Got The Fire! |
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Wooo, I have right now thinking about this, oh my goodness the memories for this, my very first exotic |
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jaunt over to the island of Jersey, followed by a swift little airplane ride 3000 kilometres due... east of |
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ah... well no, no, got that wrong, due west of Watford. My goodness, I go the wrong way and get to bleedin |
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Russia, it'd be all over. Yes, due west of Watford, 3000 odd bloody miles -- forget this kilometre stuff, what |
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do you think you are, bleedin France? No thanks very much, I'm right here! |
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Anyway, Flight of Icarus, doo doo doo! Flight Of Icarus, my first single, released the 11th of April 1983, |
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chart position number eleven... da de de da! Didn't quite get to number ten, did it? Anyway, my first record |
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with the band... I starred in the video! Did you see that? Did you see that handsome geezer with the blue |
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chops? Wasn't half cold out there! Anyway no! We did this... ah, fantastic! First trip from Jersey to Nassau to |
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do the album, we had five weeks rehearsal in Jersey... well, we had two weeks really because ended up three |
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weeks partying at the bar. My goodness, we had the only 24-hour bar on the island, and we ah... funnily |
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enough we managed to cram 25 hours in a day, hahaha! So there we are, fifteen days before we're supposed |
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to leave... fifteen days! We hadn't even written any... well, the boys had written some... but we really hadn't |
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rehearsed anything cause we was partying to much and having a good time, and all that good stuff. So there |
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you are, we get this... most of the song's written, get to Jersey, boom! |
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Oh, by the way, when we first arrived in Jersey, the first place we went to was a place called The Traveller's |
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Rest. Dear Tony Wiggins our tour manager, he told us all about this place because he checked it out before |
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us. Said \"here look, you've got to come in this place before we go\" and that's the first thing we did, got of the |
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plane, picked the suitcase up, \"HILLO!\" they said, \"HOWWYOU!\ |
