Cocksure Lads - The Greatest Hits Of: 1963-1968

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		Track Name	Length
	1	You're a Cocksure Lad	02:08
	2	A Case of the Dropsies	01:46
	3	Ship's Ahoy!
	4	Umbrella Girl
	5	Tricky Boo (Look Through My Window)
	6	That's Any Good
	7	You Gotta Stay Cocksure
	8	The Car Boot Light That Never Quite Shuts Off
	9	Admiral Trafalgar
	10	Mushy Peas	04:04
	11	I've Already Been Loved, Love
	12	Wellies in the Bath

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By Alex Green

2012 may have been predicted to be the year the earth explodes, rendering everything to be gone for good, but so far it’s been quite the opposite. In fact, 2012 could now very well be known as the year when everyone who you thought was gone for good has now come back.

At least musically speaking, that is.

This year The Stone Roses, Soundgarden, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Blur, Happy Mondays and Van Halen have all gotten back together and just as it seemed there could be no other reunion left to shock the music industry, word has come from the wet streets of Newcastle that the Cocksure Lads have reunited.

And you thought you’d never see the ‘Lads onstage again, didn’t you?

Or maybe you did.

Or maybe you weren’t sure.

Or maybe, in spite of your penchant for pessimism you were secretly hoping all these years that Dusty Fosterboard, Reg Topping, Derek Millwood and Blake “Blakey” Manning would reunite, take the stage and tear through old favorites like “Umbrella Girl” and “You Gotta Stay Cocksure.” Well, that secret hope has now come true: The Cocksure Lads are back and they’re better than ever.

Formed sometime in the ‘60s in Newcastle, the Cocksure Lads were catchier than The Hollies, more playful than The Beatles, better dressed than The Zombies and better squash players than anyone in Herman’s Hermits. Their songs were zippy little blasts of pop majesty that caused girls to cry, cars to crash and hearts to break. Although sometimes the order of that triptych was reversed—the hearts, the cars and then the girls crying—the ‘Lads were the most irresistible band on the planet during a time when the planet was rife with plenty of irresistible bands.

And then they were gone.

Although the roar of the crowds were deafening and the world was held in rapt attention by every move they made, somewhere in the midst of all that adorational clamor, the ‘Lads quietly called it a day and rather than govern the pop universe, chose instead to watch from the sidelines as songs like “Bus Stop” or “Time Of The Season” took over the charts that they very well should have been ruling.

The details about what happened next get fuzzy. Everything you think happened did and everything you think didn’t probably did, too. All we know is this: somewhere in 2011 clandestine talks were had, handshakes happened, expensive dinners at the place by the water were consumed and the reunion was complete.

read more here: http://caughtinthecarousel.com/an-interview-with-the-cocksure-lads/

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