FORGET ME NOTS
VIRGINS AND PHILISTINESS THE COLOURFIELD
WHEN TERRY HALL DIED LAST DECEMBER, HIS MID-80s BAND, THE COLOURFIELD, WERE LARGELY OVERLOOKED BY OBITUARIES. NONETHELESS, THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, VIRGINS AND PHILISTINES, REMAINS A HIGHLIGHT IN THE BACK CATALOGUE OF THE MAN THAT DAMON ALBARN CALLED “THE COOLEST HUMAN BEING ON EARTH”.
WYNDHAM WALLACE
Old Misery- Guts Is Back” announced Smash Hits’ Valentine’s Day 1985 edition, welcoming Terry Hall’s latest venture, The Colourfield, in typically irreverent fashion. Perhaps the pop bible thought the Coventry-born singer had cause to be low: a year earlier, following two UK Top 5 albums with The Specials and two Top 20 albums with Fun Boy Three, his new trio’s eponymous debut single had fallen short of the Top 40, with follow-up Take faring worse still. Even when the deceptively charming Thinking Of You returned him to Top Of The Pops, Hall looked impatient to leave, grudgingly immobile in an unpretentious Next For Men outfit, sweater tossed casually around his shoulders.