Friday Night, Saturday Morning

Terry Hall wrote both words and music. It is the second B-side of "Ghost Town", 3:32 on the 7-inch and the 12-inch, and is not on More Specials. The producer John Collins told 2-tone.info that it was pretty much Jerry's arrangement, that he suggested the descending semitones and the double-tracking of the chorus, and that a radio-friendly edit was made for Chrysalis to give to John Peel before release. The subject is a mundane night out in Coventry, and names the Locarno club, later Tiffanys, now the city's central library. A Substack reviewer reads it as a night out that ends in loneliness, mixing Ray Davies-style observation with British kitchen sink realism, and the title echoes Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. A Tidal tribute reportedly quotes Hall calling it a mundane song about a mundane lifestyle, which we have only secondhand.

MusicBrainz lists a dozen recordings of the title, among them a BBC Sessions version at 3:14, a live version on More... Or Less (2012) and one on the deluxe disc of Encore (2019, 3:16); Live From the Cathedral has it as track four. Setlist.fm lists it in 248 setlists. Damon Albarn posted a solo piano cover on December 20, 2022, the day after the band announced Hall's death, according to news reports we saw only as search snippets. We cannot say which version our upload is; if it is the 1981 studio recording it runs 3:32.