Wanna Come Back To My Place

A SONG FROM PLAY CALLED MOCKTON
This song is a more recent one. In 2005 I was working on playlet written by June and Sarah from the Writers Cafe in Stockton on Tees called Mockton. Up until then June and Sarah had written and performed poetry - moved to writing  songs and doing the Cafe reviews. We met up every Sunday to play music and sometimes perform at local venues, with various other people from the cafe getting involved. it was a lot of fun. Then they read that there was an idea floating around to merge Middlesbrough and Stockton and we speculated what they might call it! It was Sarah's name that won the prize - Mockton!! This spawned a play in which there was rivalry between Stockton and Middlesbrough epitomised by perceived competition between the potery and music scene in Stockton - led by Vonn Sturudle (myself) and Middlesbrough led by Bob Beagrie called Gobber in the play. A caricature of  many Writers Cafe members and other local literary figures are in the play under invented names. It was a comedy and we began rehearsing it involving local actors and actresses. I wrote the oem Sin City for it and this song - Wanna Come back To My Place - loosly based on Lou Reed's Wild Side (The Velvet Underground was a favouite band in the group.) I performed it at the Writers Cafe to much amusement. I will try and record it soon and add it here. It makes more sense if you know the people but others in the audience enjoyed it on  another level even though they wern't privy to all the background. The play was never finished or performed but this song from the play and the poem were featured at the cafe. Mudfog is the ancient name for Middlebrough and also the name of a local poetry publishing venture that was part of the literary development here. knitware is Sarah and June's group.

Wanna Come Back to My Place?   (by Trev Teasdel 2005)

> Onid  checked into to the Rainbow hotel, Stockton
> Told us of the horrendous plans for Mockton
> Nimrod in his leathers
> Left his pants back at Heather's
>
> Chorus
> Hey Babe - wanna come back to my place
> I look rough but I'm not a nutcase
> Hey Cutie wanna come back to my place
> I look tough but I've got a bookcase!
>
> Randy Slim rattled like a snake
> Hera and Onid tried to feed him cake
> but he slithered through the mud
> believing that the mud was good.
>
> (To chorus)
>
> Onix came pouting like a fox
> It was her duty to rewind all the clocks
> She never could tell the time
> covered up in all that slime.
>
> Dandy Hillbilly hit the guitar
> Claimed he'd had the daughter of the Tsar
> When his poems hit the charts
> He united broken hearts
>
> Marnie had it hot for Gobber
> When she saw him in all that Viking clobber
> but when he lashed out with his chops
> she sent him running from the cops

Now knitwear were hunting thimbles without a stitch
When Vonn came he said 'Yo! U gals can be my bitch'
but they had him in a trance
spiked his drink and made him dance.

Now the clone of Lou Reed was nowhere to be seen
He was down in the Velvet underground being obscene
Everyone thought it was a pity
He was raised down in Sin City.

Now capitalism's on the streets with bald hair
where some down and outs offered it a chair
but it was past its best
limping blind with sagging breasts.

but the Rainbow knew of a better way live
If love rules people learn how to give
if the system don't serve the hearts of people
throw it out without repeatal..

And Vonn  sings- doda do da do...