I know. You’ve seen the title and you’re probably thinking “What?” and “By who?” I couldn’t blame you. 747s are one of those bands left in that huge pile of those who arrived during that big UK indie-rock movement of the mid-2000s and either disappeared or were forgotten about not too soon afterwards. This is one of two songs that I know by the band, and I only know those two because those were the ones that were shown on TV. Otherwise, there’s a great chance I wouldn’t have an idea this band existed. Luckily I caught this one sometime during a morning, and it’s stuck with me ever since. I’ll guess it would have been 2006 or so, because that’s when Wikipedia says the track was released as a single.

‘Night & Day’ is the opening track on the band’s only album Zampano. Was the band’s first ever single too. And to be fair, I would say it has everything you want in a piece of music that you would want to introduce yourself to the masses to. Great opening guitar line to set the mood, it comes back here and there throughout, and the bass guitar mirrors it to emphasise its melody. Those guitars have some fantastic tones to ’em too. The rhythm’s kind of buried in the left channel, which opens up the space to the lead guitar in the right that really carries the song’s momentum. Gotta give a shout-out to the chorus to, where the chord progression rises and builds some intensity alongside these backing ‘aah-aah’ vocals. There’s something about this track that also makes me think of those showtime tunes. A lot of jazz hand thrown about. I think there are a lot of seventh chords being used, maybe that’s why. Then again, I’m not even sure about that, so someone’d have to tell me. But around 2006, it was much different to a lot of the bands who were pretty much Arctic Monkey wannabes.

The track is about a seemingly fleeting relationship in which the narrator wants to make their partner happy and follow their own free will, while coming to the point that at some point they’ll split and go their separate ways. Doesn’t sound like there’s any ill will that’s meant or anything. You know you can get those songs that are a bit off-putting that way. But it’s one where the message is along the lines of “Well, these things happen and it’ll be okay,” which I’m all for. Of course I didn’t know this when I was 11, but 15 and a bit years gives you time to think about this stuff. But that’s as far as it goes with me and 747s. That other song by them that I know, I’m very sure played just the once on MTV2, and they were never heard from again. Didn’t have much of an effect as this one.