During the summer of 1990, with 'Groove Is In The Heart' riding high in the charts, a bunch of us went to Alton Towers for a day out. DB kindly volunteered to drive us there (and back obviously) - a gruelling 300 mile round trip, or thereabouts. This song featured several times on the way south.
Spirits were high - it was summer, the sun was shining and were going to spend the day on roller-coasters. It couldn't get much better than that. Maybe spirits were too high? On entering the theme park we were confronted by a huge ice cream stall selling, quite appropriately, huge ice creams. £10 ice creams. Big, creamy, chocolately ice creams. We couldn't refuse and we were not disappointed because they were delicious.
So breakfast completed we set off in search of thrills and spills. The fog of time has dulled the precise details but somehow DB decided to give the first round of roller-coasters a miss and went off in search of food; after all the ice cream was at least ten minutes ago and he needed topping up.
We met up again that morning, the days was still young, and planned the rest of the day. The Corkscrew was the next objective, and this time we all took part. And what a ride it was - cutting edge thrills with big drops, upsidey down bits and fast corners. Fab - the adrenaline rush was immense and had put colour in our cheeks. In DB's case, a nice hue of green. He didn't look at all well, adding "I don't think that ride agreed with me!". Over the next ten minutes the green became more intense so we sat him down on the nearest bench.
"I don't think I should've had that second ice cream either", he added.
"You ate a second one?", we exclaimed", no wonder you've gone green!"
A potent and potentially deadly cocktail of £20 worth of ice cream and violent shaking was taking its toll. DB did the only thing he could - slope off to the car to recover. I'll leave what happened next to your imagination.
It's a shame this album has such vivid memories. It really shouldn't as it's a great mix of house piano, samples, Bootsy baselines and quirky lyrics. 'Power Of Love' and 'Try Me On...I'm Very You' being two of the top pop moments. A very 'up' experience is to be had by all on this deee-lovely, deee-licious, deee-lectable and deee-vine album.
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