Simon Witter catches and is blown away by a pretentious band from Birmingham on Phonogram called Swans Way. You know - Marcel Proust . He's so impressed he gets on a train to Birmingham with photographer Bleddyn Butcher and takes them out to tea and cake at a classy brasserie on expenses.
The band witter on to Wutter and get a page in NME while they wait for Smash Hits to notice them. They insist in the interview they are not the same as more successful local lights, Dexys, Fashion and Duran Duran, are not the same as Sade or Working Week either and that they like books and films as much as music.I'm listening to their 1984 album The Fugitive Kind now. It's of its time. Blue Eyed Poseur Soul. History records that The Blue Nile do what they wish to do and become less than a footnote..
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