I Was With You
Channel: Clattermonger
Date: 2014-09-23

I Was With You is the third song in the 30 Songs in 30 Days project.

t contains a reference to a defunct Huddersfield night club called Sunset Boulevard, or Sunsets, as it was known. Sunsets was situated by the station, with a pub upstairs (Jetsets) and the club downstairs. It was the kind of place we used to go on a Friday or Saturday night after playing football or an evening traipsing round the pubs. We nearly got into a scrap with Huddersfield Young Casuals there one night – the bouncer snuck us out of the back door – but other than that, I never saw an ounce of trouble. I had some fun times there. As far as Huddersfield references go, it sits alongside the mention of Bostock Records in the Pack Horse that I bullied into Less Is More Part Two.

The ba-ba-ba-bas in the chorus need to be played by a laid-back brass section, I reckon. That’s how I hear them in my head, anyway. I think the whole song could stand a full band treatment, but regardless, this is one that has been in my back catalogue for a long time and I’m glad it has finally seen the light of day.