Rough Trade Exclusive. One sided. Limited to 500 copies. Signed. Catalog Number: CAMPUS21 Color: Black Format: 7" "I spent the summer months of 1980 at The Music Works studio in Holloway, North London. I had twenty songs to record and NW6 was the first. My first 'flat' or maybe just 'bed' on moving to London from Cambridge had been in the then run down 'long and winding' West End Lane, NW6. I shared an upstairs room in a large seven room mansion flat there with the singer and writer Riff Regan and twelve other 'hopefuls'. Myself and Riff didn't know each other when we moved into the place though quickly found out we were 'blood brothers' both (separately) in the process of recording what would be our 'debut' albums, he for MCA and myself for GTO/CBS. Unbeknown to myself and Riff both albums we going to be very much 'budget' recordings as far as the record labels were concerned which in my case meant that I physically ran between the actual performing studio, the 'live room' and the 'listening' or 'control-room' (to save precious studio minutes). My first location having moved up to London from Cambridge was Central Street in the East End which had been rough, particularly as I had found a full time job locally as a night-porter, working through the nite 11pm - 9am in a very busy multi-room commuter's hotel so I was pleased to be moving from there (escaping) to the leafy streets of NW6, even if it did mean I was sharing a bedroom with four other people. This song came out of that move and it's almost too-upbeat energy is a celebration of my first couple of months of living there. The recording was due to be released on 1 May 1980 but in the month's leading up to it the record label - GTO - was sold and absorbed into CBS and I and other 'new signings' became part of a bigger machine. That's a long story ... suffice to say I managed to get this song recorded myself laying in to the energetic performance style of the time, adding some cute lyrics and warming chords."