S04E02 – There Goes a Tenner

No need to wait any longer for a new episode of Strange Phenomena! This week, we’re continuing into The Dreaming with a discussion of the second track, the one single that didn’t even chart (what???), There Goes a Tenner. Released as the second single in the UK, with the French-language original Ne t’enfuis pas on the b-side, There Goes a Tenner is a pastiche of various film references tied up in a story that could’ve been something out of an old movie: a bank robbery gone wrong. To discuss this song this week, we have Dani Llamas, who was on the Kidnapped on a Building Site episode, and Diego Ortega, another young Kate fan from California. We’ll talk about the Paul Henry-directed music video, the many film references, the song structure, and speculate on why this song didn’t chart. Also included is another essay about There Goes a Tenner from Kate fan Daniel Thomas! Song clips used: There Goes a Tenner Pebble Mill at One, October 8, 1982, interviewed by Paul Gambaccini The Dreaming Interview, 1982, unknown interviewer There Goes a Tenner live on Razzmatazz There Goes a Tenner music video