8/10/09

White Mice

Mo-Dettes - WHITE MICE - RARE VIDEO The Mo-dettes most well-known song is "White Mice", which was self-released as their first single in mid 1979 on Mode records, with "Masochistic Opposite" on the b-side. The single was distributed by Rough Trade. It spent 5 weeks at No1 on the Indie charts. They released one album, The Story So Far, November 1980. The album chiefly consisted of pop-punk originals, as well as covers of The Rolling Stones' "Paint It, Black" and Édith Piaf's "Milord". Also in 1981, billed as the Bomberettes, they provided backing vocals on the track "Fighter Pilot" on John Cale's album Honi Soit.