You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie

Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs - Sea Side Shuffle [1972]

A novelty accordion led zydeco-y tune cashing in on Mungo Jerry's In The Summertime vibe written and performed by eccentric Jona Lewie.

You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie [1980]

Here is Jona Lewie eight years later performing under his own name with his perennially overlooked synth-pop pub-rock classic. 

A record that sounds like nothing else. A one off.

I haven't heard this since the 80s but I guess somewhere in the back of my mind I thought this was a UK Squeeze tune. Did Squeeze have a song about a kitchen? Anyway my 8 year old brain wasn't that far off the mark as this is kinda like a cross between Ian Dury and Human League. 

Dejection to delighted all in the space of three minutes. The downbeat brown talk singing and dark synthwaves are evocative of drear times times in Britain but there are also bright shiny synths, hilarious lyrics, lovely female backing vocals and an upbeat change up in the song's story that counteract the sonic despondency making this peculiar paradoxical tune totally irresistible. I mean its all a bit of a laugh innit. Look out for jaunty synth break in the song after he scores a bird in the kitchen at a party thus becoming chirpy, its mental.

"She was into French cuisine but I ain't no Cordon Bleu"

Rewind!