Intaferon were an English New Wave duo, consisting of Simon Fellowes and Si… Read Full Bio ↴Intaferon were an English New Wave duo, consisting of Simon Fellowes and Simon Gillham. The duo are best known for Get Out Of London. They released two more singles (Steamhammer Sam and Baby Pain), but never released an album.

Get Out Of London is still occasionally heard in bizzare places, such as in a Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen movie, as well as a cover by The Pretenders in movie version of "The Wild Thornberrys".

Simon Fellowes later embarked on a solo career, releasing three albums and later, several one-off 12" under the name F-Machine. Having spent a decade in the USA he returned to the UK where he worked as a Film/TV director and screenwriter.

He is now a published author. His debut novel 'Don't Breathe the Air' (Strata Books) was published in Oct 2013. It is set in the seedy underbelly of the rock'n'roll business in 90s' London and LA and is the first in his Hollywood trilogy.

Simon Gillham now teaches Philosophy in the UK - specializing in Nietzsche.

GetOutOfLondon
Intaferon Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Intaferon:

Baby Pain I say, "Hello" You ask what time it is 2: 22 You just…
Get Out of London Hold tight Monday morning, wake up yawning Break an egg,…
Steamhammer Sam Steamhammer Sam, who'd have guessed you'd be an unhappy man?…

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@murraytrow1955

13w

Jeez, 40 years old nd still a great track,, Well done Simons!

@SteveSputnik

9y↑42

One of the biggest musical travesties of the 1980s was that this wasn't an ultra-hit... I used to play it all the time on my radio show - both mixes!! Nothing less than fucking spectacular!

@AngeloBetrulas

Absolutely. Used to play the 12" at the Roller Disco, back in my '80s (very) amateur DJ days...

@ericcarlson1709

48w↑3

This was a favourite of Karyn Hay of the New Zealand show Radio With Pictures.

@StuartConstantine

3y↑9

"Commit my crime now, pay my penalty later" was my senior quote in my high school year book. Thanks WLIR!

@ianfryer8386

4y↑9

I loved this song. First heard it on the Max Headroom video show but by then it was out of the shops. Found it years later in a charity shop. John Peel also played it - I used to have an audio tape of that show. He likened it to Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues.

@steverichardson1210

1y↑2

I used to know Simon Gillam from school (the guy running/escaping) and we used to swap band demos etc. I actually remember him saying that he had hooked up with Simon Fellowes and had been signed! Quite matter of fact about it! He also told us they had got into trouble because as publicity, DJ’s had been sent messages just saying ‘get out of london in 3 weeks’. Then Get out in 2 weeks etc.. the DJ’s were scared it was some kind of threat!

@bestbass42

1y↑3

THATS ME!!!!!!! I'm in this video, 3.10, I'm the tall one facing camera, spikey blond hair, army trousers and Dr Martins!!! April 1983. My Brumie Psycho mates and I were on-route to see Psychobilly Godfather's The M3t3ors @ Rayleigh Crocs. We were approached at Paddington Station (i think it was) and asked to be in a video! We all got £5 each for just a few seconds. Amazing that it was almost 40 years ago now but I remember it like yesterday.

@chrisr5499

22w↑1

Were you going to see them at the Klubfoot ?

@bestbass42

22w↑2

@@chrisr5499 Crocs in Rayleigh, Essex. The klub Foot Psychobilly events hadnt started when I was following the M3t3ors.

@chrisr5499

22w↑1

Why was this not a chart hit ? it's brilliant also good seeing the Psychbilly's at the end :)

@StuartVallantine

7y↑13

The railway station is the long demolished Broad Street station, which was next to Liverpool Street station. It closed in 1986 with services moving to its neighbouring station. The Broadgate development stands on the site of Broad Street railway station.

@raserx63

7y↑21

Thanks WLIR for playing great stuff like this !!

@mrsarcastic5331

4y↑8

The lyrics in this song are some of the best you'll ever hear. 🎼Don't be a traitor🎶 collaborator rather be a snitch than a cocktail waiter.🎙

@shelbymcdonnell182

3y↑4

Such an underrated band

@wayner7111

3y↑3

Just stumbled on this song, what a great tune and remix is also a fantastic tune.

@johnylitalo4163

9y↑10

That was the coolest song. It was in "The Wild Thornberrys Movie" where Eliza & Darwin escapes from boarding school to go back to Africa to find Telly.

@senoj.rednaxela

Yeah and Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders sang it

@nickball2010

1y↑1

Haven't heard this great song for years but loved it at the time.

@zxspectum

2y↑2

Wow this has brought back memories for me, I tried to get the 7" single at a number of shops (just after it was released) in the end the guy behind the counter said he had a promo copy on cassette which he kindly gave me. I think I still have it somewhere.

@nigelgreen9369

24w

I do love that they succeeded and got out of London

@7732147

1y↑1

Brilliant then . . . Brilliant now.

@grahamnewman7312

7y↑7

I'm fairly certain this was shot at Broad St station which was demolished to make way for the Broadgate development adjacent to Liverpool St. From recollection it was closed at the weekends, hence easier to use as a film location. Brilliant song, brilliant video.

@stephenspark776

3y↑3

Absolutely right. It was a weird, semi-derelict shit-hole of a station by then - weeds on the track, no glass in the roof and trains with bars on the windows to stop people knocking their heads off when the train went through tunnels. Replaced by the Broadgate development now. Irony is, Broad Street was the one London terminus you COULDN'T get out of London from! (Unless you count places like Willesden and Richmond as 'out' of London.)

@buxvan

9y↑8

Brilliant single, heard it when it was released on radio 1 & bought the 12" (intercontinentalballisticmix) still have it ! Never knew there was a video for it though. They wouldn't let me in, they said, MEMBERSHIP ONLY.

@stephenspark776

3y↑1

Same here. Used to play it a lot at my parties in south London, but I was the only one who could keep up with the beat. Don't think I could manage it now - dancing to tracks like this in my 20s is probably why I'm falling apart 40 years later!

@thanto575

3y↑3

I feel like in some parallel universe Simon F is a mega star. Every song off the album 'Gun' is iconic turntable excellence.

@jameswendorff6416

There's an album?

@dwb7721

Small margins.....adored this and pestered club dj's to play here in Glasgow.....Then Baby Pain released and I thought Life is unfair! Still do....ironically, entering Steamhammer Sam territory ....redundancy looming.....Three fantastic releases.....Ty.

@ktjankabar

8y↑6

My ultimate "go crazy" dance song!

@jameswendorff6416

This is about 1984 while I was on my YTS, there's a memory for you older Brits.
A guy brought the 12" version in to check out his record player (we were doing electronics), YTS we were all too poor to have serious hi-fi back then and we all heard it and about half to a dozen of us went straight down next payday or that day at dinner if still had money and bought it from the record shop in town centre which was in a town called Livingston in West Lothian.
How it managed to end up there who knows.
Such a tragedy it wasn't a big hit as Relax was doing the rounds at same time.

@davidspicer9949

2y↑1

Love this song and Steamhammer Sam!

@justinisbell7975

10y↑2

A great video and a fantastic song...thanks for sharing these Simon. Takes me back it does...I bought this and Steamhammer Sam at the time...both 7"s are currently sitting in a box under my sons bed, along with so much other great music from the time. [Note to self: Must dig out the boxes and rip the 'good stuff'].

@Fruitbat44

8y↑5

Really like the song and I really like the video which goes with it. (Which I first saw on 'Max Headroom' many years.) Thanks for posting it.

@AFancyHippo

8y↑1

+Fruitbat44 I was just thinking the same thing. This, Run to you Bryan Adamas, Dancing with myself Billy Idol, Destination Zululand by King Kurt, We close our eyes...

@Fruitbat44

8y↑1

+matjohnroe Oh yes. :-) Maybe it's just the nostalgia talking, but I do wonder if this was a Happy Time when the pop video had been around long enough to acquire a degree of sophistication, but it was still something fresh, new and exciting. OTOH this was also about when 'Not The Nine O'clock News' did 'Nice Video, Shame About the Song' . . .

@soloagent47

9y↑2

Classic 80's

@Gripm0nkey

7y↑1

I was big fan of your "Never Never Land" album; American Dream was solid!

@TheKinoEye

"Get on the bus but the bus don't stop." Word.

@jasonayres

While this wasn't a hit, I always remember it as the only song I know with a train blowing it's horn, as an 'instrumental'.

@stephenspark776

3y↑1

Yes, super use of authentic train sounds, which aren't just gimmicks but really add to the frenetic urgency of the song. (Though, to be anoracky, I think you'll find they didn't have trains with THAT kind of horn running out Broad Street!!)

@shmuli9

This song has a similar theme to "Takin' Care of Business" by BTO, which, for you non-North Americans, was a huge hit in Canada and the US.

@halenbud

Kick Ass!

@MrDanmation

3y↑1

Love everything about this SO MUCH but the bald guy at 01:55 clearly gives up far too soon... Good God man, it's only a flight of stairs!?

@6edTelevision

3y↑1

Coronavirus 2020 Tier 4 GET OUT OF LONDON!!!

@chrisstevens4697

This is the most Alan Partridge song ever made..... It's even called 'Get Out of London'...

@jordanbriskin238

7y↑6

Who else first heard this song in THE WILD THORNBERRYS MOVIE?

@Bigyawner

7y↑1

Nope. Max Headroom was my first exposure to the song.

@andysmith1996

5y↑1

1:57 The baddie gives up pretty easily.

@bukster1

Wikipedia doesn't have any info on this band or song. I wonder what year it came out?

@Madlintelf

1983, I'm a bit upset that one of the songs I love only has a few thousand views thought. https://www.discogs.com/Interferon-Get-Out-Of-London/release/5187388

@andysmith1996

5y↑1

@@Madlintelf I'm sure it came out a year or two before that.

@vincehannity4186

2 blokes couldn't ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-get outta London.

@namph72

I’ve not heard this for years triggered by a “get out of London” comment in a film I remembered it was a song title. Was this mid 80s?

@williammatneyii3218

I think this was based on Jack London. All the yankie going to London as the jacks with desires to be kings and the majesty of the English wealth as palaced , as well as bring and do the sciences there as done before while in America and or bring the risqué rock and roll there. Per doctrine resting states of classical disturbed colonial music.