Clive Ives of WOO comments Track By Track for Ransom Note about Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong
- Independent Project Records
- Mar 14
- 1 min read
"Some stories take forty years to fully tell. When brothers Clive and Mark Ives released their debut album in 1982, they were working out of a flat in South London, keeping the volume down after midnight to avoid complaints from the neighbours below – a constraint that, as Clive now reflects, gave the music 'a very subtle and sensitive feel.'... Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong marks the first time the outside world could lean in and eavesdrop on what the Ives brothers were dreaming up – irreducibly British and fully formed, carrying traces of pastoral folk, post-punk, dub, jazz and ambient without quite belonging to any of them... Woo’s music, if you’ve not been paying attention at the back there, draws from folk, jazz, ambient, psychedelia and what they call healing music, filtered through the peculiar alchemy of two brothers who’d been at it since they were kids – the whole thing kicked off with Beatlemania, a grandfather’s drum kit, and Mark on guitar while Clive bashed pots and pans. The name itself came from Uncle Fred, an old RAF man with a moustache who one day pulled out a musical saw and drew a bow across it. It went Woooooo. That was that.... Here, Clive takes us through the album, track by track..."
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