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Never Even Told Me Her Name by Air Traffic
Never Even Told Me Her Name is an EP by Air Traffic, released in 2006. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Shooting Star”, on 2 lists with a best position of #5.
Never Even Told Me Her Name was the debut EP from Air Traffic, the Bournemouth band that got its name from rehearsing next to Hurn Airport, where air traffic control chatter kept bleeding into their amps. It came out on 30 October 2006 as their first release for EMI, while Chris Wall (piano and lead vocals), Tom Pritchard (guitar), Jim Maddock (bass) and David Ryan Jordan (drums) were busy at Rockfield Studio in Monmouth, Wales, making their first album, Fractured Life. The band designed the sleeve themselves and shot it right there in the studio.
Piano leads the charge, and the NME's line likening them to Supergrass having a go at Little Richard gets the bounce about right. "Shooting Star" appears here as a demo, later recut and reissued as a single in June 2007, and "Time Goes By" comes in an acoustic version before the full band redid it for the album. As an EP it couldn't enter the UK Top 40, so it went out on CD, as a download and as a limited, numbered double 7-inch.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Never Even Told Me Her Name on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shooting Star | 2 | #5 | – | 2007–2009 | |
| 2 | Time goes by | 1 | #8 | – | 2008 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.