Let Them Drink Bovril....

Serious Drinking - The Revolution Starts At Closing Time [UPLP 3 UK 1983 24-Bit FLAC]

Today's old re-post is this classic British punk album dedicated to football and pubs, rekindled and untouched from my original blogpost on ESWA in August 2016. 

With a splendid mix of punk, beer and football, Serious Drinking formed at the University of East Anglia in February 1981. They took their name from a Sounds headline to an interview with The Cockney Rejects, although some may say they were named after their favourite pastime. Serious Dinking were Martin Ling (vocals, formerly of The Higsons), Eugene McCarthy (vocals), Andy Hearshaw (guitar, formerly of The Farmer's Boys), Jem Moore (bass), and Lance Dunlop (drums).

The debut single, Love On The Terraces (produced by Madness's Mark Bedford) reached number 9 on the UK Indie Chart in 1982, follow-up Hangover reaching number 4 the following year. The classic and long unavailable debut album The Revolution Starts at Closing Time also reached number 4, and was followed up in 1984 by a second mini-album, They May Be Drinkers Robin, But They're Still Human Beings. Save for the two singles, stand-outs are the brilliant Countdown To Bilko, I'm On Drugs and a top notch cover of Wire's 12XU.

A1  Am I Coming Over To Yours?
A2  Spirit Of '66
A3  Love On The Terraces (Mk. III)
A4  Countdown To Bilko
A5  Really Good Bloke
A6  I'm On Drugs
A7  T.V. Song
A8  12XU / Bobby Moore Was Innocent
A9  Hangover
B1  The Revolution Starts At Closing Time
B2  Baby I'm Dying A Death
B3  Time Is Tight
B4  World Service
B5  Winter's Over
B6  The Weird Son Of Angry Bastard
B7  Are You Coming Over To Mine?

...she bought me a Bovril, she stole my heart!