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The Farm
| NAME: |
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The Farm |
| MEMBERS: |
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Peter Hooton, Steve Grimes,
Phil Strongman, Andy McVann |
| HIGHEST CHART SINGLE: |
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All Together Now |
| ESSENTIAL TUNE: |
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All Together Now |
| ESSENTIAL ALBUM: |
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Spartacus |
| FASCINATING FACT: |
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Everton football club
used All Together Now as their Cup Final song - but
The Farm are Liverpool fans |
| BAGGY RATING: |
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Released three top quality
singles. |
SOME WRITING ON THE BAND:
The Farm first came
to my attention with the launch of Stepping Stone. It
was the cover what done it. A picture of a sheep wearing
a beany hat, a pair of flares and red kickers. Come on!
The Farm were straight from the football
terraces and I suppose if Flowered Up were London'd Happy
Mondays then The Farm were Liverpool's version.
Their cover of The Monkey's Stepping Stone
updated it with a baggy groove that made it just my cup
of T!
It was an indie hit and set the band up
for their assault on the charts which came in the release
of Groovy Train which I think was there first release
on a major label. It hit the charts and the video featured
an elderly fella from Brookside whose name I forget.
Their defining moment, however, was a
smash Christmas single that is the perfect tune to play
at the end of any indie disco! It's lyrics described the
Germans and the English coming together to play a game
of football match at Christmas during the war. All Together
Now is a quality quality single and featured prominently
in the betting for that year's Christmas Number One -
although it didn't quite make it to the top - it nestled
in the top 5.
It spurred the band's album, Spartacus,
onwards and upwards and the sleevenotes featured letters
the band had received from labels rejecting them! The
album was their moment of revenge and it went to number
one!
They didn't do an awful lot more - although
I remember a cover version they did of Don't You Want
Me Baby.
However, the thing I remember most about
The Farm is when they played at Markeaton Park in Derby
- a big old open air gig in front of about 10,000 Derby
folk that featured a fair few other bands. My 16 year
old brother and his friend managed to blag their way backstage
and had a word with the band before the gig. For some
reason, the band invited them on stage and gave them a
mic each.
They sang their hearts out - luckily the
mics were switched off!
The following day he was in McDonald's
and a girl comes up to him and says: "You're in The
Farm aren't you??" Quality!
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