# Songs

Each song has its own page with its versions, the matching tracks on streaming services, where the archive mentions it, its videos and the gigs where it was played.

Last substantive revision: 6 November 2026. Canonical page: https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/

- [Get Ready](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/get-ready/): 4 versions. Get Ready is track 1 of London 1987 and appears again as track 10 in a live version recorded in Bonn. A fanzine review of a two-song tape discusses it with This Evening, and the studio version was recorded at Triple X Studios in North Acton in October 1987. The band recorded it for the BBC Two programme Network East, and at the Bazooka in Bonn played it with guitar, bass and vocals only.
- [This Evening](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/this-evening/): 2 versions. This Evening is track 2 of London 1987. A fanzine review of a two-song tape discusses it with Get Ready and likens the vocals to Paul Weller in his In The City period. The song was recorded at Triple X in North Acton in 1987, and the BBC Two programme Network East broadcast it.
- [Alone](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/alone/): 3 versions. Alone is track 3 of London 1987 and runs for 2 minutes 47 seconds. The 2001 CDr lists it as I Rather Be Alone, and the 2015 compilation 3am Radio England as Alone (I’d Rather Be), at 2 minutes 53 seconds.
- [Secretly I Wonder](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/secretly-i-wonder/): 3 versions. Secretly I Wonder is track 4 of London 1987 and lasts 2 minutes 54 seconds. The 2001 CDr track list opens with it and carries it again at track 6 as Secretly I Wonder (Oxshott Mix).
- [The Day After Tomorrow](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/the-day-after-tomorrow/): 2 versions. The Day After Tomorrow is track 5 of London 1987 and lasts 2 minutes 58 seconds. It closes the fifteen-track list of the 2001 CDr. A YouTube video of the song gives the version as recorded in 1998 and labels the film as the band playing at the Wimbledon Festival in July 1987.
- [You Make My Day Shine](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/you-make-my-day-shine/): 3 versions. You Make My Day Shine is track 6 of London 1987 and lasts 2 minutes 47 seconds. Two videos carry recording places: Cymbelline in Reading in April 1988, and, for the 99Mix, New Rising Studios in Essex on New Year’s Day 1999. The 2001 CDr lists it as (You Make My) Day Shine.
- [This English Day](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/this-english-day/): 3 versions. This English Day is track 7 of London 1987 and returns as track 11 in a live version from Bonn that runs for 4 minutes 31 seconds. The 2001 CDr track list has it second, after Secretly I Wonder.
- [Let’s Take a Walk](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/lets-take-a-walk/): 2 versions. Let’s Take a Walk is track 8 of London 1987 and lasts 2 minutes 55 seconds. It is fifth on the 2001 CDr track list, where the title is printed Let's Take A Walk.
- [Tufnell Park](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/tufnell-park/): 2 versions. Tufnell Park is track 9 of London 1987. At 2 minutes 30 seconds it is the shortest track on the album. It is seventh on the 2001 CDr track list.
- [Sixteen](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/sixteen/): 1 version. Sixteen is named in a fanzine review of the Le Beat Route show on 23 February 1987, where the writer notes wrong opening chords at the start of the song. It is third on the 2001 CDr track list.
- [The First Time](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/the-first-time/): 1 version. The First Time is track 4 of fifteen on the 2001 CDr London 1987, released on Jackfruit Music with the catalogue number JRJF004. The title is not on the 2019 digital album.
- [Kim](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/kim/): 1 version. Kim is track 11 of fifteen on the 2001 CDr London 1987, released on Jackfruit Music with the catalogue number JRJF004. The title is not on the 2019 digital album.
- [Zoot Suit](https://thenewenglish.uk/songs/zoot-suit/): 1 version. Zoot Suit is track 13 of fifteen on the 2001 CDr London 1987, released on Jackfruit Music with the catalogue number JRJF004. The title is not on the 2019 digital album.