66. ‘Bank Holiday’

On ‘Parklife’. Produced by Stephen Street.

This was a high-speed punk conga that had been around for a couple of months. Graham: “The first time we recorded it was a Radio One session for Mark Goodier (July 3, 1993 – see 61). We hadn’t really written it properly.” Street was dazzled by Graham’s agile foot-pedal work – every time there is an accent in the tempo (about every 1.1 seconds) Graham stepped on a vibrato pedal, without once mistiming the beat. So breakneck was the pace that Damon needed to overlap two separate vocals to accommodate all the words. While no case could ever be argued for ‘Bank Holiday’ as anything other that filler, it is of some comedie appeal and is almost always played in the band’s live show.