The Waltones: She Looks Right Through Me

[@yvettehaynes6127]

Pretty much playing this on a loop. Glorious tune from a glorious era.

[@LongsightBlues]

Along with James, these lads were the perennial support band in 80s Manchester. Must’ve seen them both a dozen times each without ever paying to see either. Anytime you went to the International 1/2, the Uni/Poly or the Ritz it seemed like one or the other were the support. Suppose it shows how fickle the music business is, one band ended up playing in arenas and stadiums while the other vanished without trace

[@davewalkden7248]

The Charlatans poaching the guitarist certainly didn't help either.

[@garethmorgan578]

Late 80s London were halcyon days. The Waltones one week, followed by The Bodines the following and Felt after that...

[@julianmbrown]

Aces. My favourite Waltones track ❤

[@breezester]

saw the Waltones at sherborne butterfly farm with my brother steve,The Chesterfields were top of the bill and it was a fucking excellent night!I kipped in my car while steve walked home afterwards!!!

[@spaceytracey1237]

2.43- 💖 that beat.

[@stevc999]

Hey all, I was a mass waltones fan and saw them regularly at the Boardwalk - in fact they were my first ever indie gig - was into metal until i saw them - so I owe them big time! If you want their stuff, they re-issued a greatest hits album about a year ago (maybe 2 years ago - I'm getting old)...you can find it on Amazon for a fiver - just buy it - you can't go wrong!

[@mrnastybob]

There's some great memories in the comments. I left school the summer of the Roses at Blackpool. Started college in the September and EVERYONE had been. Not quite possible but people knew it was massive. In 1990 I started work in the printers where they did all the Affleck's posters. Saved me a fortune!!!

[@covjohn39]

'People laugh behind my back I can see their smiling faces, they wouldn't be laughing quite so hard if it came to changing places' such a great lyric!

[@marcusa]

All those bands!!! So many memories. I put some of them on at the Man Alive Club with the Site Club on a Thursday night, £1 quid in, cheap food, a band and me DJ'ing. If anyone has any video of that I would be really really over the moon... Marcus

[@Wilfslad]

how were they not massive? Great tunes and a good looking singer!

[@HairyBosch]

Saw this lot play in some bar in Bolton which was underneath Barclays Bank, about 3 weeks before they split. 15 people there and still one of the best gigs I've been to. Anybody got any video footage of them doing "Smile"?

[@pmorsman]

Couldn't agree more - I was 17 in '87 in Mcr and it was amazing.

[@Rich27014]

Album duly arrived this week, courtesy of Cherry Red. Packed full of pop gems and great guitar tunes. Superb.

[@littlebird1961]

the happiest of days

[@GedKelly1999]

@doa67 That's my story exactly, give or take a year or two of age. What days those were! I saw James support the Smiths, then the Roses support James. Forget dinosaurs or Rome - if I ever invent a time machine, I'm going back to Monday nights at The Ritz, Thursdays at the Hac, Fridays at Devilles, Saturdays at the Hangout... But even I don't remember the Exhuberants!

[@paulus5017]

Hey James, I saw the Waltones supporting the Shamen at Ladbroke Grove back in '87. I was at school with you, Manny & Mark. I remember you, me & Paul R. were the big Costello fans. Christ almighty! that was a lifetime ago... Great track, jangletastic... class!

[@juanclapton3394]

Still remember when they came to Valencia with Radical Records. Great pop band!!

[@terracottagazebos]

Thanks for your advice on The greatest album cd . Bought it and can't stop playing it . Made up as well as ive just found the ' Manchester North Of England' tape cassette ,with ' Smile' on it and the original 'Joe ' from the Inspirals .

[@danchadwick3590]

Quality

[@HairyBosch]

Top band. Yes, they were a Manchester band in the late 80's but they got signed to a "major" label before it became popular to be from there and every man and his dog with a banjo and ukulele act from anywhere within a 50 mile radius of the city got signed by the exploiters. Thanks for the memories, guys. Dave in Bolton. (Old and weary regarding modern music.)

[@devanwhitston7966]

wonderful sound

[@ruth1488]

big love to the inspirals....swansea

[@warrenjacobs]

bloody marvellous

[@Rich27014]

What a tune! I was responding to a video of East Villages 'Strawberry Window' elsewhere on KZbin and had to dig out the C90 I had with that on plus a load of other late 80s lost classics, mainly taped off Peter Easton's 'Beat Patrol'/'Rock on Scotland' radio show. There, at the end of Side 2 is 'Million Different Ways', which is still a stone cold classic 23 odd years on. I'll be looking on Amazon or wherever else for an album, this afternoon......

[@witterth]

Superb!!

[@Gonzax]

fantastic!!

[@pattarasila59]

AWESOME!!!

[@stevc999]

The original Madchester act and the first indie band I ever saw at the Independent - loved them and was gutted when they split - The Deepest is a great album. Was it really 1987? Feck that makes me so old!

[@mooradchoudhry4035]

Oh I missed this one by them....what a fabulous song and as fresh now as it must have sounded back in 1987! Thanks very much for posting...

[@lambretta186]

nice one for this..great to see mark collins in his former band..

[@ruth1488]

i agree with miss ellie.great tune!!

[@AndyW001]

Excellent!! Can't wait for the CD!!!

[@Wilfslad]

@Chessingtonian another classic, yes they did

[@terracottagazebos]

I forgot about this song wow.Think it might of been on the Manchester North Of England tape i had. I have the Deepest LP ( which i love) and for some reason its not on that ...did they do any other albums ? Thanks for posting this ..good work.

[@Blubai67]

You've just described my exact weekly regime back then. You can also throw in the Venue, Boardwalk and Corbieres for pre drinks & the best juke box in the World. The Exuberants were one of Dave Haslem's bands on the Play Hard label. They were a proper 3 men and a dog audience type of band. They had a really moody acting American girl singer with the brilliant name Muffin Spencer who went on to be a bit more successful with a band called Brassy.

[@jamesknox3107]

Muffin Spencer's brother is Jon Spencer, and Muffin really was her given name. I remember seeing the Exuberants singing I Save Myself for the Grave on some late night Granada TV show back then.

[@loissimo7]

That's my dad!

[@stevc999]

I've got pretty much everything by the inspirals as well - however I recommend Spotify for that - they have all the inspirals albums - not too many gaps.

[@HairyBosch]

The track on the Manchester : North of England tape was Smile. And I'm still waiting to hear if anybody's got a link to it, as it's one of my favourite tunes of all time !!!!!

[@dunkiep]

How I must have annoyed everyone in student halls in sheffield by hacking my way along to this on guitar (had it on the 'bananas' complilation album, raising funds to oppose supporter ID cards at football matches). I used to sing "she just looks like Lou Reed". Seemed funny at the time!

[@shareschannel]

you can see and hear the smiths influence... the stone roses were about to change everything... i only checked this to see mark collins former band

[@bekbek78]

Does anyone know the chords to this song?

[@GriefTourist]

My god. Remember the Desert Wolves?

[@dvno69]

they use to play the boardwalk in manchester all the fekin time this band lol

[@Chessingtonian]

Did they do a song called "Smile" too?

[@jamesknox3107]

Hello Paul, only just saw this comment. How you doing? I went to lunch with Manny, Paul Meagh, and Martin Horner last month. Everyone was on good form.

[@123joelad456]

what about charlatans man! haha

[@danmanns2923]

"Go Home You're Rubbish!" 😆

[@minmog]

They were brilliant in the days of "The Woolmington" ;)