The band I was the singer of Greenfield Leisure (1978 - 1982) was recently name-checked and our underground hit song Lorange given number 41 slot of 131 experimental-underground classics 1977 -1985. The writer describes the French lyric I wrote as genius which makes me feel quite proud. factmag/…/the-story-of-uk-diy-131-experimen…/ This is the incredible story of the UK DIY scene from 1977-1985 - one of the most febrile, unpredictable and demented periods in British pop history - as told by scene scholar and enthusiast Jon Dale. 47. GREENFIELD LEISURE ‘L’Orange’ (Strange Orchestra, 1981) This lot are a bit of a mystery, much like their parent group, the Normil Hawaiians. Stumbling across them by accident, I’d discovered a weirdly dinky psych-punk outfit, who move a little like The Fall when Una Baines was on Casio keyboard – and then those chanting chorus vocals kick in, and everything gets that little bit stranger. A pretty great use of one lyric for the entire song, too – am I correct in thinking the entire lyric is “l’orange est orange, cest une orange orange”? What kind of genius is that? There was another Greenfield Leisure single in 1982, the Those Far Off Summers 12”, and then it appears Simon Marchant folded into the Normil Hawaiians line-up – about whom, more later… youtube/watch?v=QbfLwv-6YOM
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