Tottyland

Do you ever wonder?

What do you think happens to old boyband members? Do they go to Eastbourne?

I ponder this because I in one of my feeble attempts to clear up my hard disk found a picture of Upside Down.

You remember Upside Down?

No not those maps they sell in Australia with Australia at the top or the oddly spooky photos on this forum but the boyband.

OK they only released two singles in the mid 1990s and neither got over 15 in the charts. They were as per this picture standing left to right Richard, Jamie and Giles with a crouching Chris. If memory serves (and it usually does for trivia like this) they were the product of some sort of making the band type thingy. Giles was upper middle class and couldn't manage raunchy, Jamie was about 4 foot tall and stood on telephone directories, Chris worked in TGI Fridays (the Reading one or so I'm told), and Richard was unemployed (which they mentioned daily just to rub it in). Bill was having one of his usual destructive relationships at the time with someone who looked a bit like Richard and he used to get stopped (to see if it was Richard not for drug dealing) every so often so they can't have been that unknown.

They split with their managers and became Orange, Orange and were no more successful so broke up.

Who got custody of the chest wax I don't know.