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Nightschool

from Releasing The Sheep by Latin Quarter

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Nightschool
Another song from the 80’s which has taken years to find its way to the recording studio. In Liverpool in the 70s and 80’s we knew a lot of working class men and women who were getting back into education through organisations like the Workers’ Education Association. (And often doing this because of their political activism and their connection to their community rather than rejecting their background and wanting to become something different. ‘Educating Rita’ it wasn’t.) At the same time Mike Jones had been a lecturer at an FE college (younger students though) and some of his experience gets into the song, often in a self-depreciating way. ‘Idiot in glasses’ anyone?
Steve Skaith

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NIGHTSCHOOL
SKAITH & JONES

You settle the 7-year old down with a neighbour
She’s as good as gold.
Then you get caught on the step
You always vote Labour won’t they ever be told?
They’re holding you up you’ll miss night school

Oh it is eerie to wander again
The chalk dusted classroom especially when
What you left them to get
Gave out like an old loom unthreaded again
You tug at the spool of this night school.

The teacher’s enjoying his role
The fount of all knowledge his eyes are like coal
You’ve started to drift
Get back to the college for your years of control
Don’t be a qualified fool from this night school

Sometimes you can’t help thinking
You’re all treated like asses
To be led and fed and buried by this idiot in glasses
Who has made it very clear
That he’s in charge of all the passes
Even as he guides your footsteps
By the light of his night classes

What to do with this pecking inside?
Let it take wing or leave it untied
Or be caught in his snare
Be snagged in his gold ring, it’s yours to decide
The lessons are cruel in this night school

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from Releasing The Sheep, released October 29, 2021

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Latin Quarter are celebrating the 40th anniverary of their 'Modern Times'-album this year. They first burst onto the scene with their singles "Radio Africa" and "New Millionaires" – songs that stayed for months in the German single charts in the 80s. The band split up in 1998. In 2011 five of the original musicians got together again. 7 new albums released after this reunion. . ... more

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