from the 7” single, Creation Records, 1984Isn’t it funny how, when we’re kids, it seems as if all the urges & yearnings inside our hormone soaked souls can only be fulfilled in the darkest of night, something so perfectly invigorating about those post-sunset hours it almost seems scripted, looking back now with older eyes. At some point in the game we lose our ability to sleep-in easily (not everyone, but many of us…sadly, I am among the sun risers now), and funny thing about that, because around the same time that happens, you suddenly start getting tired at the most preposterously early of times---so early that many of the establishments you once frequented aren’t even open before your head hits the pillow. Given these compounding circumstances, the late morning into afternoon has suddenly become the zenith for most of my free (i.e. not at work) days; subsequently, on days I work, there is no fucking zenith, like I have energy for zenith-ness when I have to be at work by 8:00 the next morning, please. As luck would have it, consuming cannabis & cocktails in the midday sun is bloody brilliant!!! Revolving Paint Dream was a side project for Andy Innes, of Primal Scream fame, and his girlfriend Christie Wanless, but this scrumptiously creepy single (with a sound that’s heavily indebted to the Teardrop Explodes me thinks) actually dropped before the Scream ever had a record out.
