The Pale Fountains
The Pale Fountains were an English jangle pop band formed in Liverpool in 1980, and composed of Mick Head (vocalist/guitarist), Chris McCaffery (bassist), Thomas Whelan (drummer) and former Dislocation Dance trumpeter Andy Diagram (horns).
Career
Inspired by 1960s music such as Love, Burt Bacharach and The Beatles, the group released their debut single (There's Always) Something On My Mind on Les Disques du Crépuscule before signing a major label deal in October 1982. Although the Pale Fountains failed to make much commercial headway, the band would earn critical praise for the two albums released on Virgin, Pacific Street (1984) and ...From Across the Kitchen Table (1985), produced by Ian Broudie, who later found fame with The Lightning Seeds. Their sole UK Singles Chart Top 50 single was "Thank You", which reached No. 48 in 1982.
The band split up in 1987, with Mick Head going on to form Shack with his brother John. Andy Diagram had already left in 1984 and would later join James. Bassist and founder member Chris "Biffa" McCaffery died in 1989 of a brain tumour.
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Beyond Fridays Field
by: Pale FountainsThere's a field I know
Am I looking at you for the last time in a million years?
Is there something you want to say?
Don't you know I can read your mind
Probably do it the second time
On a day when I know it clear
There's a town I know
Where the man who can sell his shoes
And he know's it's for the last time
But he's knows he got nothing to lose
Lose or win doesn't end the game
And I think we'll end up the same
Same's a word I'm not used to
Win or lose doesn't end the game
And I think we'll end up the same