The Finest Kiss

Martin's notes: When I was at school I used to leave everything to the last minute. My homework was done the morning it was due, if at all. Now that I was in a band that was played on the radio and newly signed to the legendary Rough Trade Records surely I would discipline myself a little better? I booked a recording session at Protocol Studios in London. I thought that having a date would make sure that I would have the songs written sooner rather than later but, the night before we were due to travel down to the capital I still hadn’t written the lead track. I sat on my bed with my guitar in the flat I shared with Sice on Princes Road, L8 and spent the night trying to find something. The record I loved more than any other at the time was Teenage Fanclub’s ‘Everything Flows’. I don’t think I had written anything with a proper chorus before and that was my intention. Once I had it I was too nervous to play it to Sice at first, it seems strange now but I wasn’t very confident back then, despite my cockiness in interviews. I finally played it to him and he loved it and so we recorded it with Alan Moulder. I don’t remember too much about the sessions but they must have gone well because we were pretty happy afterwards. The lyrics are about my first serious girlfriend. Man, she was serious.