There were some people dancing to Jens Lekman during the last Exeter Goes Pop! Old people, even. Or so I was told, as I didn’t notice it myself. Sadly enough, they were only in the bar area for a couple of minutes during the break of the theatre show they were attending. But that’s alright, as we have reconciled ourselves to the idea that the monthly club night is just a nice opportunity to talk to each other while showing off our record collections.

Last week, I managed to squeeze The Cupons in our play list, and for me that on its own made the evening worth the bus journey.

It doesn’t happen very often any more, now with the interweb and all that, that there is literally no information available on a band. It is the case with the Cupons though. I can’t even be sure about the band’s name, as I’ve seen websites that refer to them as The Coupons. In any case, all of these sites talk about the second edition of the Girls in the Garage compilation series, on which they have a song called Turn Her Down. So the band must be a girl group from the 1960s, but that is pretty clear from the music itself anyway: it’s that kind of innocent and honest pop song that disappeared after the appearance of the prog of the 1970s and got reinvented in indiepop. Which I’m mostly just saying to make a point. Which is that this song is totally bloody smashing ace.

Proof:

The Cupons – Turn Her Down