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It Goes Waap!! - Not a cut/edit/paste job, this was a seperate recording made a week after the 7” version and features percussion breaks and extended solos.
Got To Let This Heat Out - Perennial live favourite, pre-dating the Curse of The Higsons
album version by three years.
Push Out The Boat - This full on 80s production by
Warne Livesey has echoes and echoes of Trevor Horn with the Robert Fripp-esque guitar solo taking no prisoners at the death.
I Can’t Get Next To You - Funky Motown cover by Norwich supergroup The Popular Higson Boys with guest appearances from The Farmer’s Boys and Popular Voice.
Music To Watch Boys By - Heftily yet niftily cut-up mix of the ‘Boystown’ version, previously only available on a Spanish compilation alongside Hazell Dean and Divine!
Take It - The band’s final single, aimed at the airplay chart but shot way above it’s head. Tony Cox’s polished production features Fairlights and fairy-dust in abundance....more
Six of the finest early 80s indie dance-floor favourites from Norwich’s punk-funk provocateurs The Higsons, most of which have only previously been available on vinyl, those releases being long-deleted.
credits
released March 19, 2020
Personnel
Charlie ‘Switch’ Higson, Terry Edwards, Simon Charterton, Stuart McGeachin, Colin Williams + members of The Farmer’s Boys & Popular Voice on I Can’t Get Next To You, Ingrid Schroeder & Frog on Music to Watch Boys By and Steve Borowski on Take It.
This is what Defunkt sounded like when The Higsons supported them a few times back in the day. Their debut album, produced by Joe Boyd, is a classic The Higsons