Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Foreword by Suggs
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Tramcar to Frankenstein
- 2 Didn't You Have a Beard?
- 3 ‘It Was the Death of the Loon’
- 4 Bunny Money
- 5 The Invisible River: A Liverpool Interlude
- 6 Hypertension
- 7 America Was Our Hamburg
- 8 ‘Sound of Rock Fades for Deaf School’
- 9 The Stopped Clock
- 10 That Thread of Affinity
- 11 In Town Tonight!
- Epilogue: Deaf School and the Icelandic Constitution
- Appendix: Liverpoem, by Tim Whittaker
- UK Discography
- Sources
- Index
- platesection
11 - In Town Tonight!
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Foreword by Suggs
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Tramcar to Frankenstein
- 2 Didn't You Have a Beard?
- 3 ‘It Was the Death of the Loon’
- 4 Bunny Money
- 5 The Invisible River: A Liverpool Interlude
- 6 Hypertension
- 7 America Was Our Hamburg
- 8 ‘Sound of Rock Fades for Deaf School’
- 9 The Stopped Clock
- 10 That Thread of Affinity
- 11 In Town Tonight!
- Epilogue: Deaf School and the Icelandic Constitution
- Appendix: Liverpoem, by Tim Whittaker
- UK Discography
- Sources
- Index
- platesection
Summary
The Catalyst Band – Enrico & Bette xx
– Broken Glass in our ShoesWe are all such creatures of habit
We just can't help sticking around
A little more frayed at the edges
We may seem a little unsound
But still, let the dog see the rabbit
And after the sun has gone down
We'll squeeze out another performance
For the craic, for the roar of the crowd
And let us not fear the reaper
Let's take that imposter to town
And get him blind drunk at the old Pier Head
And onto a ship outward bound!
Enrico Cadillac Jnr, 2013A troupe of players, well into middle age, had found new audiences for their work. Coping with the deaths of core members, the survivors regrouped and discovered that their pleasure in playing together was undiminished.
The fallen comrades were not forgotten. In spring 2010 the band played memorial shows for Sam in Liverpool and London, the ‘Shark Trek’ gigs, two of them at the Everyman. ‘The deaths in the band were devastating,’ admits Clive. ‘Tim was so young and we were so young. Sam we never thought would die, he'd just carry on. And Roy, I met him a couple of years ago and he was lovely. He told me he wasn't scared of dying, and I almost made up with him that I'd kicked him out the band. It's not a nice thing to do to anyone, but he didn't hold any grudges.’
More happily, reunion shows since 2011 have featured Paul Pilnick, their guitarist from 2nd Honeymoon days, still adding that rock'n'roll firepower. We miss those members who have joined the Choir Invisible, but the modern shows do justice to their spirit. No matter that everyone else is older, a latterday Deaf School show celebrates past and present. It honours collective memories, celebrates survival and promises good times yet in store. There is an exhilaration in there: it's the freedom of knowing the future no longer weighs upon you, with all its expectations of career advancement or hip approval.
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- Deaf SchoolThe Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party, pp. 226 - 238Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2013