Name: Such A Jealous Mistress by Stevee Knight
Duration: 4 min 3 s
Description: This is the final mix of the song. Sounds pretty much the way I want it to. People are used to hearing me play this on an acoustic guitar when I blooterered at New year perties so a bit of a departure from that. David Webster on vocals. Michael Benbow on drums. A tongue in cheek look at the "demon drink"

In the early sixties my folks applied for the £10 Pom thing and we were all set to go to Australia. However, my mum got cold feet a few weeks before the boat sailed and so we never went. My brothers and I were gutted - we had already given away most of our toys. Had to get them all back again! I did make to Australia in my late twenties for a working holiday and often wondered what life would have been like if we had went - it's all that sliding door stuff. I spent a month driving round the place - it's enormous! What struck me most is how much of it so familiar and alien at the same time. Everything is kinda backwards - Xmas in summertime!

Australia (Xmas in Summertime)

 When I left school I worked in a huge factory for three years doing a job I hated! Later on I worked in one of Dundee's last jute mills on the Dens road. The Mill Lavvies were still on the go. I used to sit and have a fag with a luvly old guy who had worked there since 1929! Honest! The groove emulates the giant machines that used to pound all day doing Feck nose what! There's also a wee nod to the Beatles "Day in the life" in there with the clock and piano chord.   
 

Anything Precious

This is the final mix of the song. Sounds pretty much the way I want it to. People are used to hearing me play this on an acoustic guitar when I blooterered at New year perties so a bit of a departure from that. David Webster on vocals. Michael Benbow on drums. A tongue in cheek look at the "demon drink"  

Such A Jealous Mistress

Stevee Knight

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