There’s a couple of things that you’ll notice immediately about this new song from Morton Valence – the first is likely to be that it’s seasonally inappropriate, as Robert ‘Hacker’ Jessett sings “It was a cold Easter Sunday…” – 23rd of December and we bring you Easter. The second thing you’ll notice is Anne Gilpin’s shimmering and unsettling Marxophone. As the song’s narrator makes his way through a seaside town on a Bank Holiday it’s clear that not everything is going quite to plan – unrecognisable friends appear and are wiped away again, metaphorical and maybe literal fists are thrown.
The song is also a signal that things will start moving for Morton Valence pretty early next year – they have a gig at the Boogaloo in London on Feb 8th featuring BJ Cole, and there will be a new album coming later in the year.
