This is my contribution to the forthcoming ‘Miniatures’ album which features more than 100 different musicians, each contributing a track of one minute long:

In collaboration with Robert Rotifer, I’ve just completed a 6-track 10″ EP. For the sessions we were augmented by Ian Button on drum kit and Jonathan Clayton on bass. Both Robert and me sang and played guitar. Out soon on Gare Du Nord/Big Song records!

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190859565.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190859565-e-5

The Chefs, ’24 Hours’ (1981)

“There are unmistakable traces of post-punk in this spiffy, spiky charmer, which features shambling guitars, an unfussy bass line and sparse production. But the frontwoman Helen McCookerybook injects a half-dozen or so hooks in each verse, and the song’s delightful chorus — ‘I’d really, really, really like to be friends with you’ — is essentially a power-pop mantra. Purists can feel free to argue about whether this has enough ‘power’ to fit on this list; the rest of us can simply hum ’24 Hours’ all day.”

www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/arts/music/power-pop-songs.html