“All Join Hands” / “A Journey Up The Zambezi (And Back)” (Decca ATV 21) February 1982

TV21 | All Join Hands (Decca) 1982 | Would have loved to give these deserving open arms a single of the week. TV21 being a pet love of mine, but it’s just stuck in a box marked Human League soundalikes.

Why? This band have ten open roads to travel along and they choose the one with hundreds of muddy footprints. U turn, and fast. (Sounds, 20/02/82)

Surprise, surprise. Those whom I once berated for wilfully making loser music come up with a song fairly oozing character. Strings and piano flesh out a song that’s second cousin to a big sixties pop ballad.

Not much to my taste mind, but at least it/s something to get your teeth into. (Record Mirror, 20/02/82)