Hystorical

It’s hard after all these years to be totally objective about this wonderfully eclectic band, I was, and still am, very passionate about the Mirror. I first heard them as a young twenty-something in early 1979, they were my third signing as an A&R man and I was completely blown away by the sheer vision lyrically and musically of Allan and Nielen. I was often criticised both internally by WEA and by certain media for continuing to release album after album with very little commercial success, but I believed in my heart that this band was special and one day people will recognise that. To me the Mirror were, like the Asylum Kids, pioneers… trailblazers in a country at war with itself, they were, I suppose, our Pink Floyd complete with a Syd Barrett genius type and a guitarist that, in any other country would have been up there with Knopfler and Clapton. Benjy Mudie