Taken from the archive collection Swagger, Mouth Was Blue was a key part of No-Man’s late 1980s / early 1990s live sets, when we regularly played at the likes of The Marquee, 100 Club, Rock Garden, The Flag and The Boardwalk. It predates our signing to OLI by a couple of years and is a good representation of the band’s early propulsive Electro-Rock sound prior to the making and releasing our breakthrough proto-Trip-Hop single, Colours.
There’s a sense of urban paranoia in the feel of the track that’s very nicely evoked by David K Jones video.