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Haircut One Hundred - Pelican West

The year was 1982 and my nineteen year old self was still a couple years away from getting into the European tinged pop that would start expanding my musical palate. Hair Cut One Hundred is a band I appreciate a lot more than my younger self would have. The catchy "Love Plus One" appears on a lot of 80s compilations for good reason, it's a great song. I'm saying this now, but if you asked me other day I'd have drawn a blank. I'd gone in to the record store looking for a specific album (still can't find it) and got to chatting with the staff and we got on the subject of British new wave. He asks me if I had any Haircut One Hundred. I say I know the name but can't recall any of their stuff. "What about Nick Heyward?" he asks. Again I knew the name, but was drawing a blank on anything specific. I know he's on a compilation somewhere in the library in the studio but knowing and knowing aren't the same. So he pops out from behind the count...