Listen with Nicko! Part V

What ho... sed de ting!
Welcome to "not alot of people know that, part 5." Yes, you lot out there, ah you're so lucky! How can you
be getting so lucky, my God! Flight of Icarus in those grubby dirty by now horribly sticky little fingers and
hands and grubby palms, and oh what else is grubby, I don't know. Flight Of Icarus, I've Got The Fire!
Wooo, I have right now thinking about this, oh my goodness the memories for this, my very first exotic
jaunt over to the island of Jersey, followed by a swift little airplane ride 3000 kilometres due... east of
ah... well no, no, got that wrong, due west of Watford. My goodness, I go the wrong way and get to bleedin
Russia, it'd be all over. Yes, due west of Watford, 3000 odd bloody miles -- forget this kilometre stuff, what
do you think you are, bleedin France? No thanks very much, I'm right here!
Anyway, Flight of Icarus, doo doo doo! Flight Of Icarus, my first single, released the 11th of April 1983,
chart position number eleven... da de de da! Didn't quite get to number ten, did it? Anyway, my first record
with the band... I starred in the video! Did you see that? Did you see that handsome geezer with the blue
chops? Wasn't half cold out there! Anyway no! We did this... ah, fantastic! First trip from Jersey to Nassau to
do the album, we had five weeks rehearsal in Jersey... well, we had two weeks really because ended up three
weeks partying at the bar. My goodness, we had the only 24-hour bar on the island, and we ah... funnily
enough we managed to cram 25 hours in a day, hahaha! So there we are, fifteen days before we're supposed
to leave... fifteen days! We hadn't even written any... well, the boys had written some... but we really hadn't
rehearsed anything cause we was partying to much and having a good time, and all that good stuff. So there
you are, we get this... most of the song's written, get to Jersey, boom!
Oh, by the way, when we first arrived in Jersey, the first place we went to was a place called The Traveller's
Rest. Dear Tony Wiggins our tour manager, he told us all about this place because he checked it out before
us. Said "here look, you've got to come in this place before we go" and that's the first thing we did, got of the
plane, picked the suitcase up, "HILLO!" they said, "HOWWYOU!