On June 4th, 1984, EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL released their debut album, EDEN. Eden was met with critical acclaim and NME ranked it number 20 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1984.
By the mid-90s, a decade after Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn met at Hull University, EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, one of many bands to emerge from the post-punk migration, had been through the cycle of fashionability.
Ben Watt had survived a horrific near-fatal illness, Tracey Thorn has become the darling of the Bristol trip-hop scene, and – most surprisingly of all – within hours of saying goodbye to their long-term label WEA subsidiary Blanco y Negro Records, Everything But The Girl became a hugely successful international dance pop act.
Put together by their former label boss, indie Cherry Red's Mike Alway, because they were coincidentally both on his label and both about to go to Hull University, Watt and Thorn were initially a dissimilar pairing.
"I was a 19-year-old suburban girl who hadn't done very much" recalled Tracey Thorn."I hadn't ever been away from home. Quite conservative upbringing. Bit spiky."
Thorn – at the time a member of proto-indie trio The Marine Girls (whose 'In Love' Nirvana would cover in rehearsal) – and Watt began to work together as Everything But The Girl, their debut single a version of Cole Porter's 'Night And Day'. With both solo albums and EBTG records coming out, Watt and Thorn were mini-stars at university.
By the end of their time in Hull in 1984, EBTG had recorded their debut album, Eden, for WEA's bianco y negro subsidiary, and released a single, 'Each And Every One', while they were sitting their finals. It went Top 30 and EBTG – jazzy, young and not unsummery – were a bona fide '80s pop group.
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