‘The song got us signed but I hated it’: how Haircut 100 made Fantastic Day
Source: www.theguardian.com ·
Section: entertainment-sports ·
Bias: Center-Left
· Published: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:56:08 GMT
‘In the early days, we hopped on every bandwagon going – punk, ska, mod, everything. Fantastic Day was always there, just in different styles. The original was more Talking Heads. I preferred that’If I’d been sitting down when I wrote Fantastic Day, it would have been a different song, but I was standing up in front of a chocolate-brown wall with the names of all my favourite punk bands scribbled on it. I was envisioning the future. It was 1978, and my family had moved across London to a place called the Ski Club of Great Britain where my parents ran the bar. We lived in the basement and I had a tiny room that was like a ship’s cabin. Continue reading...
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