9. The CobbsTrophies For Lovemaking!
They were originally called Ty Cobb, named after an American baseball player. I did a late 90s tour of America with my band Free Heat but it was more of a fucking drink and drugs tour of America than a rock and roll tour. We played a gig in Philadelphia and we hung around after the gig and went out for dinner with some people but I was totally fucking wasted. I don’t remember any of it. But I got back home after the tour and I found this CD in my luggage and it was this album before it ever came out. I played it, and I was like, ‘Fucking hell, who’s this band?’ Ben, who was in Free Heat, was my lodger at the time, and he was like, ‘That was those people we went out for dinner with in Philadelphia. Don’t you remember?’ I couldn’t remember any of it and I called him up because the number was on the CD. I said, ‘Your record’s great’. I expected that they were going to be huge any moment and it just never seemed to come together for them. They made some records under the name of Mad Action and I don’t know why it never happened for them because they’re one of the best bands I’ve ever heard. I think it’s all home recorded and I’m a sucker for lo-fi, I can’t get enough of it.
