11. La Casa AzulLa Polinesia Meridional
This is pure pop music. I was in a hotel in Benidorm and went down to the bar. All of a sudden everyone – old and young – starts dancing to this track called ‘Colisión Inminente’, number six on the album. So I went up to the DJ and he told me the name of the track and the band and it blew me away. I then read later that the band are said to be the Spanish equivalent of Saint Etienne – and I love Saint Etienne, I’ve worked with them. Everything they’ve ever done. Bob has written the foreword to my book.
This track – it’s like going on holiday. You could put your suitcase on the bed and pour a bottle of prosecco over your head. Makes you want to put your swimming trunks on and have a piña colada. It’s just great pop music. It’s very much a Pre New record. We lifted heavily from it. Also it came at a time when The Pre New went through a phase. We were anti-Brexit, we thought it was a lousy idea, and so we wanted to call ourselves ‘El Pre Nou’ and become a Catalan pop band. And so be no longer associated with British pop. We changed all our colours to Barcelona colours. But I like the whole album. If it’s the last record I hear on planet earth I’ll be a happy man.’
