So why The Loveliness Fountains, Jon? What's that all about then?

Some of our best times in the band would be incidental to the music! Half of the enjoyment would be such things as going down the pub to try to think up a good name for the band. I used to come along with a list, that would often start off fairly sensibly but quickly degenerate into stupid names I thought would make the rest of the band laugh.

Over a pint or ten, we would thoughtfully discuss band strategy, which would last about a minute, and then we'd be on to stupid names for the band. 👍

So I introduced such iconic ideas such Grandad’s Dead, The Loveliness Fountains,  and The Clean Botties, and Martin deftly countered with Beefy and The Hotpots, Dog’s Breath Kipper Factory, and, of course, The Knobs. 😑

(The song Best Band In The World has a little interplay on band names where I do an impersonation of Martin as we discuss the matter)

In the end, many years later, The Loveliness Fountains just seemed a good name and way to remember us.😊 Because we did try hard to be lovely most of the time, but unfortunately we couldn’t always manage it.  Probably like most of us...

The two albums are called Love, and Life because this refers back to a time when we were being interviewed on the radio and the presenter asked what our songs were mostly about. This caused Martin and I to look blankly at each other and shrug, and there was a few seconds of radio silence heaven until Martin chipped in with “Well, love and life, really.”

That made me have to stifle a laugh at the time, and that comment passed into band folklore as a fabulously soppy answer, but looking back now, Martin actually got it about right.

And I have divided the songs up roughly into the two categories. They could also have possibly been divided up into the two titles A) Out and Out Rampant Attempts At Commercialism By The Boys and B) Trying To be Edgy And Funny. But they are not as catchy eh!

So this is us, we were here, this is what we did.