This song always reminds me of my time in Yorkshire and more particularly
BBC Radio York. One of the great things about going to east 15 acting school in the late eighties/early nineties was the practice of sending the second year students to the school’s other building which was a Jacobean Mansion in a village called Sherriff Hutton close to Castle Howard.
Unfortunately the school no longer owns the building and it has passed back into private hands, however at the time it was still part of the school and the students lived in (in the haunted servants’ quarters at the top of the house!) and had a unique opportunity to practice some real ‘method’ acting without any of the distractions of London or anything else for that matter! In fact it was so remote the bus came only every other day!
I spent the first term of the second year there and it was during that term that the school arranged for us to go to BBC Radio York to learn about radio technique. The BBC let us use their tape recorders and equipment and aided by BBC Radio York Breakfast DJ David Dunning (who was running the course) we recorded some improvised plays (which in retrospect are pretty hilarious) which were always great fun to do. On one of the sessions we were learning how to introduce records and this song was the first record that came to hand and so we practiced using it and at the end of the night David D game me a spare copy. I remember dancing to this in the Victorian Ballroom as well and even though it wasn’t a massive hit it is one of my favourite Pet Shop Boys songs.
Listen to the song….
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