Sounds From The Junkshop #36 - A
"I'm getting older, I'm getting smaller, everybody tells me ya gotta walk taller" - A , Old Folks Another late-in-the-game group to hop on the Britrock wagon just as the petrol ran out, A definitely proved themselves to be an adaptable bunch...for a bit anyway. Unfortunately they're another band who suffer from the dreaded Boo Radleys syndrome of being remembered for a song which had very little resemblance to the rest of their output. But more on that in a moment... I think I first became aware of A some time around the time of their first album How Ace Are Buildings? as they were favourites of my younger sister and her friends. With two of the band being from Leeds (the rest hailed from the Ipswich area if I remember rightly) they used to gig around Yorkshire quite a bit and I remember at least once having to babysit my sister and her mates to one of their gigs at the free Breeze Festival. At the time I thought they were good but not great - if Symposium w...