A Song For England: Round 2

A Song For England: Round 2

- VOTE NOW - The poll has closed for the 1st round and the winner is... -+ The Shining Hour +- He will now go up against our next contenders... Blind Granny's Taxi Nightmare These chaps have previous with an England World Cup song having previously released a previous version (have I said previous enough ?) of this tune four ye

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A Song For England: Round 1

A Song For England: Round 1

So here we go then... UPDATE: The poll has closed and the winner of Round 1 is... As you are well aware by now there will be no official song for England leading up to the World Cup. This is obviously bad news for the listening public as there's obviously going to be a deluge of songs that will attempt to fill this void. Since there's n

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Wake Up It’s (South) Africa Calling

Wake Up It's (South) Africa Calling

To get you warmed up for the upcoming draw for the World Cup, some (slightly) related music. This first is from the Rochdale born now South African citizen Johnny Clegg. This was released in 1994 and was featured on the Rain Man movie soundtrack. Update: I've just read that he will be appearing at the draw to help it drag on for at least ano

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“Football and Music – Your Official Station For The World Cup…”

Just getting that in before Five Live claim it. No you are not still high on crack, that is a picture of a couple of birds playing with the balls of the 2010 South Africa World Cup mascot. He is called Zakumi and he is a leopard. So let the hype begin. If you want to get yourself in the mood then there's some very nice 2010 World Cup wal

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Under That Umbrella

Under That Umbrella

Before we go into the game tomorrow I want to bring up again a painful reminder from two years and two months ago. The last time we played Croatia at home. I don't need to add any more prompts, you know. Derek says that it isn't a revenge match, but again you know it is. Some of the players will also know and will have never forgotten the emb

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Turning A Dream Into A Nightmare ?

One thing I hate is remakes. I can't even name a remade film released in the last 10 years in which I could say was better than the original. Why do they do it ? (Oh for the money, naturally). There is one fillum which I think if they even dared to do remake, would be a very stupid thing to do. Of course you are all familiar with Gregory's G

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So you think you can sing for England ?