Demo recorded with our 1976 live band lineup featuring Nick Trevisisck on drums and Dave Barker on keys. We were getting so fed up with being neglected and ignored by Konk that we rented the legendary 8 track Pathway Studio to record this and Love Rules at our own expense. Both songs subsequently on Hereward''s first solo album The Golden Mile on EMI Records.
lyrics
I’ll never really change enough to make it all worthwhile
I don’t want to play those games of love, you know it’s not my style
I was always the freewheeling kind. Now I’m falling and I know the signs
(But you’ll just end up the hooked one brother)
I can see it coming by a mile.
You’re more convincing than Scarlett O’Hara on a moonlight mile
I wanna put between us ten Saharas – pick up the phone and dial
Always had an independent mind. Now I’m crawling and I’m out of time
(Don’t go telling us your hard luck stories)
I ain’t gonna cross the danger line
I wanna fly on a supersonic
Look through the peepshows on the Golden Mile
Take a slow boat to Peking, do my own thing
Love ‘em and leave ‘em in my usual style
You’re more convincing than the star performers of stage and screen
Wearing the look that all the nice girls wear on the centre pages of a magazine
You can blow till your dreams run out. I’m only in love when the light goes out
(Don’t go telling us your hard luck stories)
I ain’t gonna cross the danger line
I wanna fly on a supersonic
Look through the peepshows on the Golden Mile, take a
Slow boat to Peking, do my own thing
Love ‘em and leave ‘em in my usual style
I wanna fly on a supersonic
Look through the peepshows on the Golden Mile, take a
Slow boat to Peking, do my own thing
Love ‘em and leave ‘em in my usual style
I wanna fly on a supersonic and wave it bye bye (too high to fly)
I wanna go on a roller coaster and cover the sky (No one ever really changed the world)
I wanna fly on a supersonic. I wanna wave it bye bye (wave it all bye bye)
I wanna go on a roller coaster and cover the sky
(And the time will come you will agree)
Nobody is gonna walk the Golden Mile with me
With me.
credits
from CAFÉ SOCIETY - Troubadour,
released September 1, 2023
Lead Vocal: Raphael / Lead gtr: Hereward / Acoustic gtrs: Hereward, Tom & Raphael / Keyboards: Dave Barker / Bass: Tom / Drums: Nick Trevisick / Demo: produced by Café Society @ Pathway Studio / Remastered by Gerry Diver
supported by 55 fans who also own “The Golden Mile”
Quite good songs from some new inexperienced band that I've never heard but I think they have promise though really they needed to start their career say in the mid-1970's during a time of strife & hope with clashing cultures & international conflict to help inspire the tempering of this raw talent into something folkish and joecoqueresque avec a nouveau sensibility of finger pickin' geetar and riddim&blooooozzz and glued back hair, sequins, glitter, safetypins & paperhats. A good first attempt. quangobaud
supported by 23 fans who also own “The Golden Mile”
So much atmosphere conveyed by so few words. This track truly lives up to its title and not only that - this version features Steve Laurie and Pat Davey - two old muso friends from the eighties. Richard Hayward
Ben Wheeler uses an East German synthesizer and a Soviet flanger to create hauntingly weird yet bright and open electronic soundscapes. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 10, 2022
supported by 19 fans who also own “The Golden Mile”
This album has stuck with my dad for the best part of 30 years, Tom's music has a timeless quality that doesn't age and stays with his fans for decades. Adam Stephens