Sometimes your brain just runs wild, thoughts flashing through your mind, you know, a frenzy.
- Turning Japanese – The Vapours
- Every Day I Die – Gary Numan
- Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes
- Be My Girl (Sally) – The Police
- St. Swithin’s Day – Billy Bragg
- Pictures of Lily – The Who
- Pump It Up – Elvis Costello
- My Ding-A-Ling – Chuck Berry
- Fingers – Pink
- Bed Bugs – TownTown
Sometimes you just have to make a list. A top ten even. It’s in no particular order mind. TwinsTown are No.1 not No.10, but it’s just random anyway. Certainly nothing anyone might want to hide from their mum and dad.
Bed Bugs is a song about mental health: the importance of it and occasionally, or sometimes more than occasionally, the things we do to keep ourselves sane. Check out the chorus…
I try to fall asleep but the bed bugs
Want me
Oh the creepy little bed bugs
Haunt me
I try to fall asleep and the bed bugs
Taunt me
They’re keeping me up in the night
TwinsTown
I love the bridge too. We can all relate…
And they’re jealous
They’re all paranoid schizophrenics
And it’s all my fault
TwinsTown
Arguably, Bed Bugs provides the most engaging intro of all the songs on Brankholm Brae. It’s both quirky and cute. The song continues in the same vein as the lead guitar takes us into a bouncy tune with the trademark TwinsTown call and response vocals used to full effect.
Look out too for the equally subtle and gorgeous backing vocals from Billy George, Ben Sharp and Ellie George. After her introductory appearance on Big Heart, I think I’m right in saying Bed Bugs is Ellie’s second outing on Brankholm Brae.
I hope her fellow backing singers, only her dad and boyfriend, won’t mind if I say Ellie gives good “Oooo’s”. I can’t even spell Oooo’s. The last time Stuart passed me the mic Mark jumped out of his piano stool like a scalded cat and chased me away. That’ll be the end of my singing career.
Back on topic, Bed Bugs is over far too soon. T’here’s an impatient urgency, a rush and a push towards the climax. I didn’t say pull.
Despite it’s brevity, I predict it’s going to be a classic. Bed Bugs is the TwinsTown song for TwinsTown fans… like me!
Fred Flintstone and Clint Eastwood are hard acts to follow, but Bed Bugs goes in hard, standing up to the pop reference challenge with the rat pack and Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and the twins’ grandad. 50p each way on Dean Martin.
The flavour was fine
’cause it got savoured in time
We try try try
But love’s hard to find
So bye bye bye !!!!
TwinsTown
Four exclamation marks to end this one. Oaft! There’s some pent-up emotion going on and no mistake.
Just one song preview to go now, the title track, Brankholm Brae. There’s going to be no pent-up emotion for the final track. It’s all released. There won’t be a dry eye in the house. Tissues at the ready, please.
Coming soon…
We can’t keep it undercovers forever, it’s the album most likely to, it’s Brankholm Brae.
Watch this space for details.
Stay alive!
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