You Havin A Larf??

Rick Page ‘Having A Larf’ (the back story)


Now asking Rick about the stories behind the album ‘The Fence’ it is wonderful hearing these little stories.

Next track ‘Having A Larf’ seems to be something that come from meeting someone & having a jam just wonderful story.

I hand you over to Rick Page -

Simple this one

When I was staying at James house over one weekend we were recording some stuff.
The night before we were having a meal and talking about things in general when this female friend at the meal said she was “gonna hav a barf” (cockney accent) me of course being a Geordie started to take the pee out of her saying “it's Bath not barf” and I generally went to town on the cockney accent.
The following day James & myself had finished recording and decided to do a jam session James started to play this music and I started to make words up to go with the music but the conversation from the night before was still in my mind so the micky take of the accent started to come into the song hence ‘Having a Larf’ instead of Having a laugh. – Rick

Pure Magic I love the fact the song comes from basically a ‘wind up’ a joke that from a jam has turned out to be a wonderful unusual romantic comedy style of a song.
I just love where in character in song Rick sings his heart out to this woman he loves saying how he feels & in song she replies “you having a larf?” priceless musical magic. - Ace