Late Last Night

I saw you standing there at the bar, your eyes were glazed with passion, a look of afar, a secret smile, I blew a few kisses, said my name... is Lyle.

– The opening lyrics from lounge lizard Tim Finn

When the album (which Tim had titled Second Thoughts) came out in the UK we received a fair splash of media in the rock press. That was pretty much it. Sales of the album were meagre. In the end, it seemed that the emphasis was more on how we looked. We had reached the pinnacle of made up faces, bizarre haircuts, [Noel] Crombie's costumes and so on. It seemed to me that the media through we'd gone overboard. I thought we'd gone overboard...

– Ex-Split Enzer Mike Chunn looks back to 1976, in his 2019 book A Sharp Left Turn, page 152