Micko & The Mellotronics – First And Last

“The phrase that holds the song’s title, my Dad said to me when suffering pneumonia in hospital, he was so pleased to see me! The line of course holds contradictory meanings and I knew there was a song in there but had to wait a few years for the rest of it to turn up. Its lyrical coda came by way of my old chum Neil Innes. When my son was born he said to me, you realise what we are put here to do. Make more of ourselves.”

Micko is joined on the track by Paul Cuddeford on guitar and ebow, Budge Magraw on bass, and Jan Noble on drums (both ex-Cesarians). The Mellotronics frontman worked closely with Cuddeford, in particular, on the arrangements for the new album in between his commitments with Holy Holy, The Boomtown Rats and his solo work. Chris Kimsey (The Rolling Stones), a friend of Micko’s, was involved in production advice on the track. 

The new track is also accompanied by a black-and-white music video, directed by Cameron Poole, which sees Micko wading through water fully dressed. “I realised I had to get in the water,” the singer explains, “and that would hold considerable meaning in itself with notions of rebirth, cleansing and transformation. That became the purpose of the film and is also the lyrical centre of the song. The use of black and white and creative colour was put together by Cameron and I. It was the second time we had worked together and we both felt had crystallised into something symbiotic to the song.”

“Would You Believe It” marks the first single from Micko & The Mellotronics’ upcoming album ‘The Trinity’, scheduled for release in early 2026. Thematically, the record takes from the experience of mid-life issues, reflections on the past, politics with a small “p” and social observation. Human behaviour and its motivations have always been key elements in Westmoreland’s work.