Roses Are Red
Can't Understand (Posthumous Petal) 1979)
Everyone knows this - booted til the cows come home and loved near and far. Thought it was time to spill the beans on who this mystery group actually were, though: don't forget you read it here first...
Chris Thompson was the singer. Who he? He friend of The Vibrators, whose members Greg Van Cook, Ian ‘Knox’ Carnochan and Jon ‘Eddie’ Edwards masqueraded as Miss Guided, Miss Directed and C. Slug to help their mate out one afternoon (and a couple of otherwise to-kill evenings). This motley crew were joined by Nicky Hallam on guitar, who these days bestrides the world like a colossus in his chosen guise as The Head in all-conquering (briefly) U2-supporting Stereo MCs. Chris might well remember the band through roses-are-red-tinted spectacles, and might have some damn fine stories to tell, not least of which being what happened to the proposed-but-never-released follow-up "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", but everyone else only vaguely remembers it. Nicky Hallam was especially entertained to be reminded, despite the fact that by looking at him in those Stereo MCs videos you'd swear he was by now plenty used to people having to remind him of stuff, like yesterday, or what country he's in, or did he have anything to eat this week.
