Urban75 Home About Offline BrixtonBuzz Contact

Songs namechecking UK towns and cities (not London)

'On Porthcawl Sands' , Songdog

'Manchester', The Times

'Mother Glasgow', Michael Marra (and several covers)

'Glasgow Joe', Donnie Munro

'Internal Exile', Fish - mentions Grangemouth, and various locations in Edinburgh (but does not mention the latter by name)

'Lucky' and 'Dear Friend', Fish - both mention Dalkeith

'Brixton, Lewisham', Tony & Louise also mentions Birmingham
 
A13 - Jah Wobble

"Around and around the Raynham roundabout."

You'll be hard pushed to find a better piece of prose detailing working class life on the London/Essex border.

Masterpiece.
 
'Maidstone', Squeeze

'Pulling Mussels from the Shell', Squeeze - mentions Camber Sands

'Saturdays Kids', The Jam - mentions Selsey Bill and Bracklesham Bay
 
Frankie Vaughn - Stockport
Frank Sidebottom - Surfing Timperly, Timperly Sunset, Last Train to Timperly, born in Timperly,Wild Thing in Timperly,
 
Black Betty by the Ram Jam Band namechecks Birmingham. (tbh they should have called it Black-Country Betty)
 
Your thread, bb. Might prove controversial with some of my fellow Irish posters, mind ;)

Never really understood why anyone would consider 'British Isles' OK if 'Britain' is not. I know the technical differences of meaning but the historical connotations kind of overwhelm that. Anyway, back to the subject:

Kaka Tim - did Ram Jam name themselves after the (I think now-vanished) motorway pub on the A1 the Ram Jam Inn, or the other way round? If the former they get an extra point.
 
Back
Top Bottom