Founded by Wivenhoe's Renaissance man, Martin Newell, the Cleaners were initially Martin and one Lol Elliot on drums. Later, after Lol left to live on Venus permanently, a young local chap approached Martin with a song he'd written and soon found himself one half of the new line up. This man was Giles Smith who is now a much-respected author and has written the best-selling book “Lost In Music” which focuses on this period in his life, from which an extract is included as a bonus on this brand new best of album! Compiled by the man himself, this fantastic best of album features 22 tracks, including the fabulous “Julie Profomo” and “Summer In A Small Town”.

Julie Profumo / Follow The Plough / Illya Kuryakin Looked At Me / Mad March Hare / Girl On A Swing / Let's Get Married / Summer In A Small Town / The Beat Generation And Me / Felicity / Blue Swan / Sunday Afternoons / I Was A Teenage Idiot Dancer / Living With Victoria Grey / Drowning Butterflies / Albion's Daughter / A Mercury Girl / Clara Bow / Illya Kuryakin Looked At Me (Slow Version)

Spoken Word Extracts – Giles Smith reads from his book Lost In Music: Newell / Managers / Scunthorpe / Berlin