The Dark Years of Jarvis and the Band

Jarvis and the band show up to do their Peel session. They're finally in a real studio, but they're young. The drummer is 15. In the recording from that session, you can hear how scrappy they are. We had to borrow lots of equipment because we didn't really have very much equipment of our own. Somebody had made us a synth drum from reading some kind of home electronics magazine. It was made out of the trigger was like a pad that you would use in a burger alarm,. But it was really insensitive. That's a frustration on student design. So that's in 1981. You think you're going to be a big pop star. And then what happens