The Miserable Rich - Somerhill

TRACKLISTING:
Side A – Somerhill
Side B – Bye Bye Kitty
 
OVERVIEW:
‘Somerhill’ is the first single to be taken from the forthcoming second album ‘Of Flight & Fury’. After the success of their debut outing, ‘Twelve Ways To Count’, & the little bit of fun they had last year with their ‘Covers EP’, the band return with a new album of wholly original material.
 
When asked about ‘Somerhill’, James writes "It started when Will came to the band with a piano piece: it was, I think, the first song he’d brought to the band, despite his having played on numerous other writer’s tunes. We all loved it, & were extremely keen to get together & find an arrangement & vocal for it.”
 
Somerhill is the name of the local junior school between James, Jim & Rhys’s houses, where the band rehearse. The song is full of Brighton reference points, including arguably its greatest pub – The Basketmaker’s Arms – & one of the barmen, Eddie. It's about falling for a yummy mummy in a small town where ‘everyone knows who you are’: the sneaking around; the secret smiles; the stolen kisses.
 
The b-side, ‘Bye Bye Kitty’, was written by cellist Will in the aftermath of James’s birthday. Having been taken back to a friend’s house, his imaginative/drunken decision to cycle home late that night had immediate consequences as he came a cropper on a perilous corner & stuffed his knee up completely. Unable to work for the rest of the year (he was a bicycle courier), he had time to mull over the events & write this rather opulent melody.

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