It’s a tourist area, so there’s a lot of people coming down from London. I’m lucky I live in the middle of nowhere, so there’s not too much of that stuff around here. Now that they’re giving everyone some freedom, it could make worse again, that’s the problem. But you just don’t know at the moment what’s going to happen.
Hopefully we’ll all look back on this in amazement next year. It definitely is capturing a unique moment in time with this pandemic. Everyone’s pissed off at home, teasing their dogs and splitting up with their wives! We thought it would be nice to put a smile on people’s faces. ROBBIE GREY: I think we knew how much the song “I Melt With You” is liked by people, so we just thought it’d be nice to do. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. One person was in Los Angeles, but everybody else was at their houses in England. We put things down on different days from different people. ROBBIE GREY: We pretended that we were doing it live, but we weren’t. Was it hard to put this version together? And I thought, “Wow, if we can do that, that’s worth everything, really.” One guy wrote, he’d just come off a 12 hour shift in some sort of factory, and he went home and watched that, and he said he started dancing around the room, he felt so good. Some of the comments from people have been really, really nice, that I’ve cheered them up, so it’s really good. ROBBIE GREY: It’s going through the roof. What kind of feedback have you received since you released your new version of “I Melt With You” a couple of weeks ago? Calling from his home on the east coast of England, singer Robbie Grey discusses the band’s legacy – and future.
During their lengthy career, the band have gone on to release eight studio albums, and they’ve recently reissued their first two, Mesh and Lace (1981) and After the Snow (1982). And it’s still relevant, as Modern English proved when they recently reworked the track as “I Melt With You (from Quarantine),” with an video showing each member performing it from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 40 years later, that song has become a cultural touchstone. Their previous work had been well-received, but “I Melt With You” quickly launched the band into the stratosphere, earning heavy airplay on both radio and the then-new MTV channel in the U.S., as well as around the world. In 1982, post-punk/New Wave band Modern English released the exuberant song “I Melt With You” as the second single from their second album.
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