A little while back, I was having a sort out of my many boxes of stuff which have sat untouched in my garage for ages.
Among the many magazines I have from years gone by, I found an issue of Look-In (a UK teen magazine focusing on TV, film and music) from November 1989.
This particular issue had Big Fun on the front cover and also carried an interview with the band inside.
What is interesting is the reference to Big Fun having recorded a track called Weekend with Stock Aitken Waterman in late 1989: "We just recorded this brilliant song with Stock, Aitken and Waterman called Weekend, it's really good funky pop".
Big Fun never released a track called Weekend, nor has it ever come up in the various lists of unreleased SAW tracks.
So what’s the story here?
Did SAW attempt a cover of Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend) with Big Fun?
Was it a track recorded at PWL with Pete Hammond or Harding & Curnow (and the journalist has just used SAW as the usual catch-all)?
Or was it another track which ended up with a name change or changed lyrics?
Or was it an abandoned track and was therefore never finished?
Of course, it could be an error or misunderstanding on the interviewer’s part, but I find that difficult to believe (especially as it's a quote).
So another potential SAW mystery emerges! The gift which keeps on giving!
