When it comes to storytelling, very few pop groups have done it as well as Squeeze. But even the group’s songwriting mainstays Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook would be hard pushed to devise a plot twist like the one that has resulted in Trixies, their first album in eight years. Because, if truth be told, the band who has given us sky-high classics such as ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Tempted’, ‘Cool For Cats’, ‘Another Nail In My Heart’ and ‘Labelled With Love’ weren’t planning another album. 

Written by the teenage Difford and Tilbrook at the very start of their songwriting partnership, the songs were a collection of stories set in a fictional night club, Trixies. What better way to mark 50 years of Squeeze than to complete the circle and realize the vision they had for Trixies? And by returning Difford and Tilbrook to the birth of their creative partnership, Trixies has acted as catalyst to a latter-day songwriting surge.