"Heatwave" is a song by Colin Moulding. It originally appeared as a B-side to the "This is Pop?" single in 1977, later being included as a bonus track on re-releases of White Music. A promo video was shot but it was never commercially released.
A second version, "Heatwave Mark 2 Deluxe," appeared on the 2002 Coat of Many Cupboards box set.
Quotes[]
Colin (on MK2 Deluxe): “I sometimes think that women love their beauty ‘enhancers’ just as much as their fellas. Are they attached more to their attachments than their attachments? Are sun beds better than their partners beds? This song is about women's love for their machines. I know what you're thinking. Can this be extended, for want of a better word, to the bedroom? I can assure you I was as white as the driven slush when this song was written and that no such thought entered my mind.”
Andy (on MK2 Deluxe): “Like Liberace on a drunken camel. Colin offered up a new ditty to the other three of us to tackle. We made a sort of an Arabic clockwork quadruped for him to ride, and you wonder why he never climbed on.”
Lyrics[]
She likes it hot
She likes a tan
She steals my infra-red
When I'm gone
Oh no can it be
We're heading for a heatwave
Her hair is bleached
Like it's been boiled
She browns herself
In a sea of Olive oil
And I come around
And she's relaxing
In the conservatory
She's born to brown
She's born to rust
She's in love
With a Mark II deluxe
Oh no can it be
We're heading for a heatwave