JakeBickerton

Ok, just done a little research and James was the guitarist. My bad! The bass player was in fact called Simon and he's now in high-profile Smiths tribute band, Smyths - https://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2010/oct/29/paul-morley-smiths-tribute-video

On 27/09/2020 at 22:11, PaulWarning said:

cheers, how do you know that?

I knew the band quite well, as ended up playing quite a few gigs with them, and we also shared the same manager for a while. James was, I'm pretty sure, the bass player, or guitarist - definitely one or the other anyway!

On 26/08/2020 at 16:22, PaulWarning said:

yes it's a cracking song but looking into it further I don't think it's the Only Ones, I think it's a band called The Songs (crap name eh?) and the title is Us, the Only Ones, can't find any info on them at all apart from this guy has posted some other stuff by them, none of it as good as that one though https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClHoSwApI5_nC3yvafbUylQ

I've got about 6000 songs some are obscure good ones, but not as obscure as that 😄

 

Btw, the guy you mention above who posted The Songs' songs is the band's original bass player.

I can help out here. The Songs were a band from Newcastle-upon-Tyne that were around from 1990-1994. They gigged a lot around Newcastle and the North East, and also did some UK tours and tours of Italy. I played in a band that supported The Songs quite a few times. This was their only single and our band (Troft) got a mention on the sleeve, which was cool. I remember Dan (the singer) being really chuffed about Peel playing the tune, which was actually the B-side of the single - the A-side was called Ginger. The band reformed for a one-off gig about eight years ago, at the drummer's Jim's 40th birthday party. They released an album in Italy around 1993/4, which was a bit watered down from the new wave inspired tunes they kicked out in 1990-1992. They were great live and had half a dozen songs that, given any exposure at all, could have been big indie hits.