This is the second Sugardrive interview I conducted with lead singer Paul E. Flynn. Of the five albums this seminal band released, I somehow managed to convince the band to head out to Pretoria and perform, ‘unplugged’ on a little show I did each week on @tuksfm back when Noah imagined his ark.
Here we joked a lot and didn’t get much work done, but it was a glorious one-of-a-kind night, huddled in a small studio, one I will treasure forever.
My relationship with the band began in 1994, and over the years, I would like to think that, in some small way, I was pushing the needle in trying to get the world to pay attention. I miss their gigs and their self-deprecating humour.
Sugardrive was a band always a year ahead of their peers, a lot like The Outsiders, which, if you know anything about this business, is entirely unhelpful when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.
· Disclaimer – there is music played that’s not cleared for broadcast. Still, due to the nature of my mono-captured cassette sessions, the Universe will allow us all to rekindle a memory and perhaps cajole Paul to reform the band sans the sadly departed and much-loved and missed Garth McLeod.
