Over Easy

I always thought that The Egg was a Bristol band. Not so, they all met and started up in Oxford. However, their first couple of EPs were released in 1995/96 on Bristol-based label Cup Of Tea Records.

In 2005 The Egg released Walking Away from the previous year's third album Forwards, featuring Sophie Barker on vocals. In January 2006, Tocadisco aka Roman Böer de Garcez remixed the track, delivering a significantly zippier club cut that also came with a radio edit under two and a half minutes and a video featuring women in lingerie that must have looked dated then and certainly does now. 

The single initially made little impact and didn't chart in the UK until six months later, for reasons which will soon become clear, peaking at #56 at the end of July 2006, before shuffling back out again.

A shame as Tocadisco's remix is an earworm and quite a departure from the chilled cinematic sweep of the original album version.

The full length Tocadisco remix doesn't disappoint either. 

Yet, it took David Guetta to get his hands on the Tocadisco remix of The Egg and create a bootleg mash-up with his 2002 single, Love Don't Let Me Go featuring Chris Willis to send it into the stratosphere. When it was officially released, Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away) shot to #3 in the UK at the end of August 2006. 

I assume that the original's belated appearance in the chart the previous month was either due to the public buying the earlier version by mistake, it's appearenace in an advert for the Citroën C4 car, or that Guetta's Frankenstein's monster of a track wasn't widely available until August.

Credited to David Guetta vs. The Egg, the re-release at least had the decency to include the Tocadisco remix as a B-side/bonus track. I'm not a fan of the Frenchman's mash-up, if I'm honest and the video's equally dated and meh for me personally.

The Egg remain a going concern, and you can find a box (egg box?) of delights on their Bandcamp page, including the original album of Walking Away, remixes, collaborations and live performances. Well worth a visit.