Don't set fire to Haircut One Hundred's Pelican West album
Time does some very funny things to you, not least when it comes to music. Back in the early 1980s, I would have have happily died rather than admit to having even the faintest interest in that terminally unfashionable band, Haircut One Hundred. Haircut One Hundred! Nick Heyward on Top Of The Pops (October 1981), looking about 12 years old, a canary-yellow sweater draped over his shoulders on top of ... another sweater, a chunky loose-fitting oatmeal thing his gran probably knitted for him . Blimey. This was truly ... bad . Except, unthinkably, earlier today, a mere 44 years after it was released, I bought a copy of Haircut One Hundred's first album, Pelican West . (Self-) incriminating evidence here: Long play at 33 and one-third rpm: Haircut One Hundred go retro Wtf. Yeah man, it's true. And the case for the defence? Er, well, I splashed out my hard-earnt £2 to pick up this secondhand record in a charity shop because of a lingering memory that H100 were ... act...
