Melody Maker, June 12, 1982

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Melody Maker

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You Little Fool

Elvis Costello

Michael Dudley, Adrian Borland

Dudley: I preferred him when he was plundering Stax. I thought Get Happy was an excellent album, but he's lost his teeth now and he's trying to find them amidst a fog of old psychedelic effects that got chucked in the bin ages ago.

Adrian: When you talk about a Costello record, you're not talking about whether it's good or bad, it's a question of whether you like it or not. And, as he slagged "Silent Air," I think it's.... only joking. It's good radio music, will get a lot of airplay and probably become a hit. Why are we bothering to talk about it in special terms? He's not worth it. It's not bad. That's all.




Everybody's somebody's Bluebell


Paolo Hewitt

Paolo Hewitt gets hooked on classic pop, Eighties style, from Scotland's Bluebells.

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Matters finally came to a head after the show that night. In the cramped dressing room, Ken McCluskey, the Bluebells' harmonica player, picked up a plank of wood, walked over to Alan Horne and threatened him with extreme violence if he didn't vacate the room, like NOW! Quaking with anger, it was only the restraining arms of his friends that kept McCluskey from inflicting the awful damage he had in mind for the Postcard supremo.

Relationships hadn't always been so strained between band and manager. After only their second concert as the Bluebells, Horne had burst into their dressing room and told them how great they were. How they should go away and rehearse Lovin' Spoonful songs. Polish their exquisite pop tunes into an efficient, organised form.

Horne knew that Orange Juice, his ace card at the time, would soon be leaving Postcard for a major, and he saw the Bluebells as his last chance. They would record the last ever Postcard single, an EP of three cover songs, plus an original and Postcard could go out in a blaze of glory. The record was never made. Horne had a masterplan and the Bluebells just wanted to take things as they came. Easy come, easy go. Maybe do it tomorrow, maybe not. The result: friction.

Eventually, Horne turned...




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Melody Maker, June 12, 1982


Guest singles reviewers Michael Dudley and Adrian Borland (The Sound) review "You Little Fool."


EC is mentioned in Paolo Hewitt's interview with The Bluebells.

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