Wednesday, October 28, 2020

The Rough Rough Sounds of Young Scotland


Fire Engines : Get Up And Use Me


In October of 1980 Edinburgh's Fire Engines released their debut single "Get Up And Use Me". NME's Paul Morley reviewed the single calling it "a confirmation and revelation that these striking Fire Engines can assault and agonize in new, forceful ways with the guitar/bass/drums line up. David Henderson and Murray Slade's guitar conflict-heroically racy- is the most indignant and electric I've heard since the Au Pairs...I'm losing sleep. My body won't stay still. No one'll steal this lot's soul. They'll catch on a like a disease. We'll all be twitching. "

The Fire engines never did make a "well produced" single. Sometimes playing it rough is best. Franz Ferdinand would cover the sing twenty years later. 




 

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