Yep, we watched England v Panama in the pub, a fun afternoon; seemed like we were cheering an England goal every five minutes. Though I was very drunk. Day Of The Lords before the game caught my attention! Though I was trying to make a connection what the song had to do with the upcoming match and the England team, only thing I could connect was the “Where will it end?” lyric. Where will it indeed end for England? Probably in a penalty shootout in the Colombia game on Tuesday.

If I listen at all to World In Motion it’s the b -side, kind of prefer that version now, never was completely clear on who is doing the “ You can hold and give” and “ you must defend and attack” parts etc on that version . It’s obviously on the “ My name is John Barnes, what’s yours?” and “ get round the back “ it’s Keith Allen but I never had Allen down as good voice impersonator to do those Steve McMahon, Des Walker (?)parts.

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Well...hmm...maybe.A just about passable geordie accent from Keith Allen there.But i'm still not convinced unless proven otherwise he did impersonations of England footballers on the WIM b-side in the parts where there's different voices doing a line each of the John Barnes rap that is on the A-side.I don't know...where is it factually stated that Keith Allen really did do those parts? Not that it matters! It's all pub quiz trivia. Just curious.


But anyway,whatever,but i'd never seen that clip before, that montage of all the Madchester bands and stuff circa 89/90 to the soundtrack of that Paul Oakenfold remix of the Mondays' WFL certainly brought back some memories of that era.

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Yep that sounds more like what happened though Hooky does have habit of making up stories.I don't have the digital version of Hooky's book and can't recall if that is in the hardback but upon flicking through Bernard's book there on page 229 is the same version of events as Hooky remembers.Bernard, like Hooky, says it's this Richard "Dickie" Chappell character; "a born again Christian" states Barney ,doing those bizzarre footballers voices for the rap on the b side. To quote Barney " So that's Dickie the Christian rapping on the b side in his lilting, fey Bath accent"


This appears to confirm my long held belief that it's not Keith Allen doing those footballer impersonations ( though it's obviously him on the "My name's John Barnes, what's yours?" and i assume him again on "Get round the back!" ?

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That photoshop of Ian Curtis reminds me of watching on tv an England World Cup or Euro qualifier some years ago. They were playing Lithuania I think and during the teams lining before the match for the national anthems , the camera panned along the stern and grim looking Lithuania squad and the commentator said “ They look like Joy Division “

during the pre-concert music at an erasure concert, they played the full version of the original blue monday.

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Barry Keoghn, who you might know from Dunkirk or The Killing Of A Sacred Deer in American Animals. A heist movie about university students who...don't really know what they're doing. Substance T-shirt appears around 1hr 40 into the film. UK release date: 7th September. It's actually a true story, with the real characters popping up as talking heads during the film.

Gideon Coe's show on now on BBC 6Music has the January 1981 Peel Session as tonight's archive session.Truth on just now.

^ Oh Miranda Sawyer was hosting? I read her book Out Of Time a few years back. A good read.

Missed it too. Had a look to see if I could get last night’s 10pm Sky News on catch up but turns out they don’t make their news shows available on that. There is a minute or so online of Barney talking about mental health issues and a dig at the coalition UK government after the banking crash not funding the NHS enough for mental health.

Have a feeling the bit i saw online isn't fully in this?

More of the interview.