Tristan Johnson wrote:
Do you have the copyright to Tendresse by The Longpigs... I remember being about 18 and me and my mates driving to Liverpool. What should have been a very 'laddish' scene was 4 teenage lads heading to the passport office in a souped up Peugeot 106 Rallye listening to Tendresse over and over and over...
Needless to say it was the first song I ever heard of by you... and well it's alright.
What a great story,I do own the rights to the song but god knows who owns the rights to all that piggies stuff,it's 15-20 years ago now,been so many labels bought and sold.......I do own the rights to the song though and occasionally think about re recording it,I wrote another section to it a few years back........anyway seeing as you were so kind as to share your story here's one to repay the gesture.......there's a longer version of this but for one reason or another that was recorded totally naked In the dark.......when I'd finished our then tour manager took a picture of me sat on a chair having a cig.......thankfully with a guitar on my lap.......that became the laminate/pass for the next tour......I still have it,along with every pass and laminate from every gig or tour I've ever done......I even have beer mate I wrote on.....which started my collecting these mementos.....a wards beer mat I kept says simply"played with Dad,upstairs,Firth Park Hotel,6-4-1980"....which is of course my most treasured