Is It Immaterial?
Well, moving away from London with this post to a City in the UK I haven't visited yet! We were up around that way a year or so ago staying in Chester which was a lovely place to stay and did and a few trips into places such as Shrewsbury, again another lovely experience. We were due to go to Wales and visit Snowdonia National Park but sadly due to the whole COVID thing it got cancelled. Anyway with a band from Liverpool...
It's Immaterial - Young Man (Seeks An Interesting Job) - Originally released on the Hit Machine Record label in 1980. With a picture of a very young Franz Kafka on the cover.
I guess sounding maybe a little 'Dexy's Midnight Runners' perhaps the brass section makes it sound so.
Seeks An Interesting Job
1) 'Life, it's a marathon not a sprint - you'll get there, don't panic, don't give up and keep fighting. You can do it, no matter how old!
2) You are a long time working, so make the most of this time as you will probably be having to work for a lot longer than perhaps your parents, sad but true!
3) If you think you have failed, then think again, to rock through life without making any mistakes is the biggest mistake and failure of all, no-one learns anything by not failing, it's a whole passage of life reality, so embrace and enjoy!
4) Finally to quote another bit of music from a previous post 'Be Young, Be Foolish But Be Happy'
Catch the split single of Big In Japan / The Chuddy Nuddies - Brutality, Religion And A Dance Beat a split 7" single from 1977 released on the 'Erics' Record label based in Liverpool at the link above.
Big In Japan & Big In Liverpool Too
Big In Japan comprised of Bill Drummond, Ian Broudie, Jayne Casey, Clive Langer, Kev Ward and Phil Allen. The Liverpool Echo mentioned that Big in Japan were "a supergroup with a difference - its members only became super after they left"; former members of Big in Japan would later find fame in The KLF, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Lightning Seeds and Siouxsie & The Banshees"
...Whilst the Chuddy Nuddies (who would later become the Yachts) consisted of Henry Priestman, Bob Bellis, Martin Dempsey and Martin Watson. Henry Priestman also later went to to form bands It's Immaterial and The Christians.
Yachts, Early Gigs & Upstairs At Eric's
They played their first gig as The Yachts supporting Elvis Costello at the legendary Liverpool venue 'Eric's', a hotbed of acts played there including The Sex Pistols, Wah!, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes and O.M.D. to name a few. It was so well known that Yazoo even named the album 'Upstairs At Eric's' after it. I am guessing that as Elvis Costello was on the Stiff Label it perhaps helped The Yachts get a contract with the label. They were to release one single for Stiff called 'Suffice To Say' which was written by Priestman and Campbell and produced by Will Birch (originally in a local pub rock band to me called The Kursaal Flyers).
