This band played for us and were okay, they were not from London so they never pulled much of a crowd. They were however a bit different from the norm. So I agreed to release this single on our label, it was our first and only 7" e.p.
'arrods dont sell 'em was about Harrods not selling condoms, a gimmicky record that I thought might work. We arranged to play it one saturday morning outside Harrods, the band were meant to set up on the back of a lorry, with a generator for their power. I got all the press and tv channels interested and they were all there outside Harrods, this was going to be a really big coup to publicize the single. What happens is, the band don't show up, we were all there from 8am until 2pm waiting. They said the lorry broke down but I know they had a late night on the friday, got drunk and frightened themselves into thinking they might be arrested and locked up in jail. Why didn't they tell me? We could have all had a lay-in on the saturday.
The photographer who was doing the shoot for us was jeff ellis, his career would have taken off, with the major press wanting pictures, we could have all cashed in. Instead jeff's still got his box brownie camera!