Yorkshire Evening Post – Thurs 22nd January 2004
Review by: Andy Roberts

SUPER FLY GUYS
Band’s Debut cleared for take-off

BEING 747
Fun & Games
****

Over the years Dave Cooke’s smart, sardonic paeans to modern life in those unmistakable drawling vocal tones have lit up literally dozens of local gigs. Now finally in early 2004, courtesy of the burgeoning Wrath Records empire, we get a debut Being 747 long player. And what a marvellous platter it is.
The thirteen deliciously knowing songs showcasing the former Land Speed Lounger’s razor sharp wit are the essence of proper indie music and a craft that seems to have died out almost everywhere else. The darker parts of Pop Idol culture-baiting in Music Of The Clones could easily be found on a Pulp album. Similarly elsewhere you can hear the likes of The Monochrome Set or They Might Be Giants or (the less off-beam bit of) Half Man Half Biscuit and Ween. These idle comparisons are probably a mile off what the band might think. What we’re grasping at in typical journalist flannel is that Dave and his cohorts Steve and Paul Morricone (from The Scaramanga Six) – are not into producing po-faced indie rock – this is fun, fun, FUN!
It’s fun from the outset with the fizzling Wrath Super Sevens single Swingball , an ode to school-age sibling rivalry around the Swingball pole, school and elsewhere. That Look Again is(we think) a bullish response to some hen-pecking after falling through the door following a night out, not fun stuff per se, that is until Dave delivers the mighty line “Yes I went out for a night on the tiles/yes, that girl that you hate/pinched my arse and I smiled”.
The ultra catchy Make Things Happen is a marvellous poke in the eye to those getting too serious about making it in the music biz. One of three tracks recorded at The Audible Science Sound Depository in Wakefield with Jamie from My My is the Advice From The Golden Couple, an interpretation of that terrible situation we’ve all no doubt faced at some point or another, smug-faced couples doling out well-meaning advice to you when you’re on your own – sung naturally with the required venom. The One We Did Last Monday dispenses the cynicism and veers into heart-warming ballad territory with a majestic male voice choir and sax crescendo before The Girl Who Fell Asleep Whilst Watching Her Life Flash before Her Eyes rounds off a marvellous album on a quickfire edgy pop note. If you need any more reason to make an investment in this album, Wrath have thrown in the amazing video to former single Weathergirl for good measure.