Serious Drinking - The Revolution Starts At Closing Time
Ripped from a vinyl album released on Upright Records (UP LP 3) in 1983 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. About time some will say! The impending start of the footie season seems just the right moment to re-rip and re-post this, last seen on these pages back in the day when all you got were mp3s. To recap here's what I said first time...
With a splendid mix of punk, beer and football, Serious Drinking formed at the University of East Anglia in February 1981. They took their name from a Sounds headline to an interview with The Cockney Rejects, although some may say they were named after their favourite pastime. Serious Dinking were Martin Ling (vocals, formerly of The Higsons), Eugene McCarthy (vocals), Andy Hearshaw (guitar, formerly of The Farmer's Boys), Jem Moore (bass), and Lance Dunlop (drums).
The debut single, Love On The Terraces (produced by Madness's Mark Bedford) reached number 9 on the UK Indie Chart in 1982, follow-up Hangover reaching number 4 the following year. The classic and long unavailable debut album The Revolution Starts at Closing Time also reached number 4, and was followed up in 1984 by a second mini-album, They May Be Drinkers Robin, But They're Still Human Beings. Save for the two singles, stand-outs are the brilliant Countdown To Bilko, I'm On Drugs and a top notch cover of Wire's 12XU.
Ernie's Side
A1 Am I Coming Over To Yours?
A2 Spirit Of '66
A3 Love On The Terraces (Mk. III)
A4 Countdown To Bilko
A5 Really Good Bloke
A6 I'm On Drugs
A7 T.V. Song
A8 12XU / Bobby Moore Was Innocent
A9 Hangover
This Side
B1 The Revolution Starts At Closing Time
B2 Baby I'm Dying A Death
B3 Time Is Tight
B4 World Service
B5 Winter's Over
B6 The Weird Son Of Angry Bastard
B7 Are You Coming Over To Mine?
...she bought me a Bovril, she stole my heart!
