112 SAINT ETIENNE (FEATURING DONNA SAVAGE-DEAD FAMOUS PEOPLE) “LET´S KISS AND MAKE UP” (FIELD MICE COVER)
This is the video for Saint Etienne’s second single, Kiss and Make Up, featuring Donna Savage of Dead Famous People on lead vocals. Released in 1990, it was then rerecorded for Foxbase Alpha, with Sarah Cracknell taking over the vocals. The song was originally recorded by the Field Mice.
if you doubted that The Field Mice were about sex, then you just had to listen to the opening track on the Snowball 10” album. ‘Let’s Kiss And Make Up’ was as breathtaking in its way as ‘Sensitive’ had been. Sultry and sleek, it was like smooching behind the bike sheds and stroking fire-kissed hair in the dunes by moonlight, swaying to the sound of heartbeats meshing all the time. It was the sound of skin warming against skin, of lip lifting upon lip. Even in this form ‘Let’s Kiss And Make Up’ was a classic dance record. It’s reinvention in 1990 as a post-Acid-House dance classic by Saint Etienne simply made its roots more obvious for those who perhaps hadn’t spotted it initially.
( Alistair Fitchett - “Snowball + Singles” Field Mice linernotes - LTM recordings)
