Oliver's Army
Elvis Costello
A few years back, during the long sprawl of Glassjaw's major 9-year hiatus, and after many cancellations of any physical appearance from Daryl Palumbo due to his bleeding bowel issues, if you wanted to see Glassjaw or Daryl you where better off booking a flight to NYC and knocking on as many doors as possible until you found his mam's house.
That was until his side project Head Automatica decided to come to town, and so I jumped at the chance of seeing this sexy beast in the flesh. You remember Head Automatica don't you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zINlfg0aGqw&feature=fvsr <<CLICKY CLICKY!
Well anyway, after the set we headed over to see Daryl DJ across the road where there we ended up hanging out with the band, and then somehow ended up riding a Magic Bus to go to someone's house party in Withington, Manchester (flash-forward 1 hour: this party would later turn out to be just full of 40 year old Mancs on pills. Uuugh.)
Still on the bus, and after ridiculing the drummer about how his old band Rival Schools only had one good song, the band began to sing, from out of nowhere, "Oliver's Army is on their waaa-aaa-aaaaaay... sum sum sum sum sum neer ner neerr ooooh... TO-DAAAAAY..." on the top deck of said Magic Bus, repeatedly, for the remainder of the journey. Wait, hang on, you remember Rival Schools don't you?
I've always enjoyed Elvis Costello in the past, but never really gotten into the albums, and I guess the morning after this event is where I associate REALLY getting into Mr Costello, and every time I hear this song I will always remember this mis-matched motley bunch of badly dressed Americans wailing their hearts out on a Magic Bus.
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