Interesting background image: Sunny Side Up

Single/track review

Interesting background image

Sunny side up

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Southampton indie-soul-brass-pop songsmiths Interesting Wallpaper are quietly releasing another pop classic. Catchy and immediate, but always something deeper… Ged Babey is investigating.

Southampton’s most interesting veteran pop group is anything but wallpaper music. They are great life and their songs are never as simple as they seem.

They helped me with one Bucket list fix it and it’s always good to hear from your bandleader.

Pete Harvey sends me his new songs when they’re finished with a “See what you think of this?’

“It’s great.” Instant classic. Sunday afternoon pop. “I’m trying to understand the text,” I replied. “You know, I like ‘Word Psychedelia.'” He tells me about Sunny Side Up…

The first verse and chorus came out in a stream of optimism, although the jet engine raining down is from Donnie Darko, which I always think is a fatalistic film.

The microbiomes are the ones we walk past every day without even noticing – I find it bittersweet to notice all the tiny things (rocks, moss, bugs, rusty paper clips) that lurk in rooms at the base of walls or gather in central reserves really somewhere, not noticing us and ourselves.

Entropy is a brilliant physical thing that, to me, explains why nothing in the world can be perfect.

The second verse and the middle 8 came later and you can hear Marc Bolan there, with Lewis Carroll, David Hockney and the genetic history of man!

Luka is the last unique known ancestor, a single-celled organism that divided and eventually became Homo sapiens (many millions of years ago), but yes, there was Luka before Mother Africa. And I know I’ve been here before – reincarnation, of course.

There is more to discover at the end of Sunday’s sermon, but you have to leave some room for interpretation

I think there’s a bit of “This Wheel’s On Fire” in the chord changes, but it’s just great, groovy, relaxed and interesting pop music for the discerning listener.

And live they’re a bit happier and saxier… (see below) or catch them tomorrow night at the Railway in Winchester.

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Live appointments
Tuesday 22nd October 2024 – The Railway, Winchester – supports Rozi Plain
Thursday, October 24, 2024 – Overdraft, Shirley – with Cold Heart Revue
Thursday 21st November 2024 – Platform Tavern, Southampton

Other Sofa City shows
Sun, October 27, 2024 – The Haldane Effect – the Joiners (album release show)
Thursday, October 31, 2024 – Pegasuses, Watching the Buzzards, Tapes for Diane – Overdraft, Shirley
25th January 2025 – Watching the Buzzards / Tapes for Diane at Heartbreakers, Southampton

All lyrics by Ged Babey

Regular readers will know this Interesting background image for the song “One For The Ghost” by Pete Astor – sung by Ged Babeyas a bet, as a dare, and as a bucket list thing…it’s still available, but ONLY until November 1, 2024, then it will be permanently deleted – So download a copy now if for some strange reason you ever want to hear it again. x (GB)