Album: single release only (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • Morning Parade are an alternative rock band from Harlow, Essex, comprising vocalist/guitarist Steve Sparrow, bassist Phill Titus, guitarist Chad Thomas, keyboardist Ben Giddings, and drummer Andrew Hayes. The band was formed in 2007 and after signing to Parlophone a few years later, they released this song as a demo for free download on morningparade.com in Spring 2010.
  • The song title is an abbreviation for Accident and Emergency, which in the UK is a common name for the emergency department of a hospital.
  • Sparrow told The Sun: "A&E is a song about feeling paranoid about infidelity when we were all having women trouble."

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