The Valentine’s Ball with The Postmen

The first line to Post Office by Charles Bukowski is ‘It began as a mistake’. And appropriately, that’s how The Postmen began too. It was meant to be a bit of a laugh, a covers band of mid-life-crisis proportions. Then we began to take ourselves seriously, in a funny kind of way, & began writing our own songs. We found ourselves in a One Way Town, with Cain & Abel, somehow Justified, Come What May. And we’ve kept going ever since, with new uniforms, & new songs like our council estate anti-hero, Metal Fly, sometimes set against the seaside backdrop of The Elephant Rock. It’s what we call Chansons de Travail, or #brutalistarchitectureurbanfolk