'Gay Boys In Bondage'

“When I was with the R&B outfit Drug Addix, Stiff Records paid for some demos to be done with the band, but they didn’t really like them. When they heard that I'd eventually left [Drug Addix] they called me & said: "We'd like you to come & play us anything you’ve got." I said: "I thought you didn't like the demos", and they said: "We hate the band, but we quite like you". When they asked if I had any songs, I said: 'Oh yeah, loads!', even though I didn't at all. Then I thought: "Oh God, I'd better write something before I go in to see them." And that's when I wrote "They Don't Know". I went round with a cassette, singing to an acoustic gutar. They liked it & signed me.”

- Kirsty MacColl i bogen ‘Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story’ af Richard Balls 2014.

Citatet herover kan måske forlede visse til at tro, at dette indlæg, skal handle om ’They Don’t Know’, MacColls uforlignelige debutsingle fra 1979. Niksen-biksen. I stedet skal vi forbi The Drug Addix, orkestret MacColl var korpige i. Hun optrådte under pseudonymet Mandy Doubt. Bandet optog i 1978, en demo med fire sange. Om det er de indspilninger som Stiff Records betalte for, men ikke ville udgive, ved jeg ikke? 

Hvis det er sådan, så blev de udsendt af et andet engelsk pladeselskab, Chiswick Records, under titlen ’The Drug Addix Make A Record’ samme år. 7"er-ep’en består netop af fire demotracks, uden nogen form for studieefterbearbejdning. Mest af alt, fordi selskabet formentlig havde en formodning om, at nummeret 'Gay Boys In Bondage' kunne skabe en smule furore. Det skete ikke.