Blog Post
Marc Valentine - 'Last Train Tonight'
Iain McArthur • Apr 05, 2022
Single Review
This lovely wee blast of glam-infused power-pop is the first solo single by the likeable Last Great Dreamers front-man, Marc Valentine. It’s a cracking song, full of pop sensibilities and hooks over a sweet and jaunty guitar riff. It almost sounds a little bit like Bowling for Soup doing a Squeeze song at times (and that’s a good thing, by the way)!
I can also highly recommend the very good video by Darren Stockford which is well worth 2 minutes and 50 seconds of your time. It’s a quality mini-movie in which our dapper hero in guy-liner encounters a couple of Strongbow guzzling geezers whilst trying to catch the eponymous last train home. It cleverly re-uses the old Bob Dylan / Love Actually ‘words on cards’ technique with train tickets and is highly entertaining. Interestingly for me, it features both Eden Park and West Wickham stations, where I would sometimes end up when I fell asleep on the last train home to Clock House station near Beckenham in South East London, back in the day.
Marc is a very popular lad at Rockfiend HQ, particularly after The Dreamers’ fine sets at HRH AOR in Wales a few years ago. This is a juicy taster for the album ‘Future Obscure’ which is due out on the 8th of July and there’s an announcement coming about July tour dates too.
Don’t worry; It appears that LGD are still a going concern. Slyder Smith also has some solo stuff nearly ready to go apparently, so it’s all looking good.
Happy days.