Artist: Aztec Camera
Album: Dreamland
Released: May 1993
UK Chart: 21
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Oh dear, Roddy, what on earth went wrong here? Ryuichi Sakamoto occurred, didn’t he?
I feel I can talk frankly to Roddy, we go way back. Way back, in fact, to my first week at university in October 1982. In my Freshers’ Week entertainment I was thrilled to see that we had Aztec Camera playing. At this time they’d had three singles released, none of which had troubled the main Top 40, but had all done well in the Indie Chart.
They turned out to be playing in one of the smaller venues in the student union, and got a reasonable turnout of around two-hundred people. When Roddy announced “this one’s called Pillar to Post” my sole voice called out in appreciation – “Yay!”. Practically every audience member turned round to see who this person was, who’d actually heard of these songs. “Cheers, mate”, said Roddy. “No problem”, I replied.