The Interpretations - Coming Out Of Hiding

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There is not one single computerised note on this lovely little record. It was all made totally live in one night in 2001. This was a rather rare and obscure little 45, a record which we put out anonymously as The Interpretrations, on the Love label, supposedly from out of New York. The backing band is actually Snake Davis And The Suspicions and the lead singer is in fact Steve Brookstein. In the early 2000s we tried out several obscure records under pseudonym names, but this is a 100% Ian Levine production. Unfortunately most of the copies got lumped in with some records seized for copyright reasons, and got melted down, despite my bitter complaints and opposition at the time. Therefore as a 45 it is incredibly rare. Steve Brookstein was of course the lead singer with The Four Vandals, who were created in 1999. After trying a few solo records, plus a duet with Steve's then girlfriend Kate Jackson, who also recorded under the name Venicia Wilson, I decided to form a new Northern Soul band around Steve. This band was called All Points Bulletin, and Kate Jackson was also in the band. I was making a documentary about Northern Soul, called "The Strange World Of Northern Soul", and the idea was to create a new young fresh Northern Soul band to show that the scene didn't have to be just about thirty year old records. So All Points Bulletin made three songs, "I'm On My Way", "Lucky Number", and "You've Been Away", and filmed two of these songs in a rehearsal room in North Acton, but my partner in the documentary, Neil Rushton, got cold feet about All Points Bulletin, so in 1999, when the film reached its final edit, the footage was left on the cutting room floor at first. But I was still determined to prove to the moaners on the Northern Soul scene, those who claimed that no-one could make a new record these days that any people would listen to it and think it was a real old Northern Soul record, that it could actually be done. And that was how The Four Vandals were born and "The Wrong Side Of Town" which one DJ bought from an American record shop for $20 US dollars, then sold to another DJ for £800. Unfortunately I was blamed for this when my only involvement was making the record.