I have to check the logbook

I was really surprised to read Kevin Rowland’s verdict on the original recording of Too-Rye-Ay

[MOJO 337]. There’s a fair amount of prejudice towards this album, primarily because of Come On Eileen being overplayed so much in 1982. But I loved it at the time and I still love it today. Perhaps Kevin Rowland has always been searching for something, even if it always seemed “so-so”, but if he improves this already brilliant album, it will be some achievement. Lee Oliver, Tunbridge Wells