Nite Songs

  "I've travelled the world and seen all the girls but I'm in love with you"  - The Adicts  - Troubadour One of those bands where I'm perpetually puzzled as to how they didn't get more successful than they were, Ipswich's Adicts were a band who, at their mid-'80s peak, had a knack with big bright colourful pop songs with a punk twist which, in the hands of a more commercially fortunate artist, would have been surefire hits but for some reason they never got anywhere near bothering the Top 40. The group started out in their native East Anglia in the dying days of the 1970s with their first single Easy Way Out  surfacing towards the tail end of 1979. To be honest though, it doesn't really compare with what followed it, a nervous wiry 90 second slice of post-punk angst which could almost be Wire if you squint a bit. By the time of their debut album proper, 1981's Songs Of Praise , the group had started to get more of a grip on their tunes with the...