With Someone Nice Like You

A ska styled number this time!
For those who follow the Hobo - Coventry music site - this was one of the last songs I wrote before leaving Coventry in 1980. Two Tone was raging in the city and many of the other Cov bands followed through with their own brand of Ska. Ya couldn't stand still at a gig - ya had to dance. Tony (Mojo) Morgan and I met up at the Dog and Trumpet (Coventry's Cavern ) late 1979 and back at his pad he told me about a new band he was forming EMF. His idea was to blend ska and blues (perhaps ska with blues bass lines and sax). He hadn't honed the line up then and asked if I could come up with a couple of songs. I did two - Saturday Night (written in the Dog And Trumpet) which had a 12 bar verse and ska chorus and this one With Someone Nice Like you. I'm not sure I ever played them to  Him as very soon Tony (Mojo as he's now known) brought in two girl singers who had their own material. I became a big fan of EMF and was often called upon to get everyone dancing (something I still do at the Writers Cafe as some will know!) and also Hot Snacks were another fave band at the time. This was written around that time - early 1980. The recording was me on acoustic guitar on a cassette plaeyer so the sound quality wasn't great - just a draft really. I've added a bit of reverb and delay to enhance it a little but couldn't get rid of a few buzzes - still it gives an idea. (Have added a photo of the EMF at the Dog and Trumpet in Coventry and an audio of their final sound - the single Anti Bellum (it's a gudun!) written by the two girl singers.

With Someone Nice Like You

 

by Trev Teasdel

I torture myself, with pent up fears

I brood a lot

I brew tea for one

I ask myself “how come”

How come I just can’t face the pots

I tie myself right up in knots

Chorus

And I long to spend my time

And I long to spend my time

Yes I long to spend my time

With someone nice like you.

I smashed a cup washing up

I burnt the toast

I missed the post

And I ask myself “Whyfore”

Whyfore I haven’t fixed the drafty door

I’m frozen right through to the core

Chorus

And I long to spend my time

And I long to spend my time

Yes I long to spend my time

With someone nice like you.

Oh the nights are cold

Oh the nights are long

All I do, it comes out wrong

I wash my clothes but still they pong

How come I just can’t get it right?

Sadness got me in his long-range sights

To chorus..

Bridge

When I see a lover by your side

I turn my love lights low

Take my part in a melancholy show

Oh I just don’t know

Don’t know how to show I just don’t care

When my feeling set fire to my hair.

To Chorus.

By Trev Teasdel – 1980