Reasons why Chas and Dave are great

8. The cut-ups of the chorus lines in the second half of "The Sideboard Song" are Flanagan and Allen accidentally discovering Burroughs.

Most of all though, I thought about 'Ossie's Dream'.

Or indeed the 1982 sequel: "Tottenham! Tottenham! No one can stoppenham!"

Madness are Chas and Dave if they'd kept on reading the NME after 1976. But I like them both.

20 Chas & Dave Gertcha May 1979
8 Chas & Dave Rabbit Nov 1980
21 Chas & Dave Stars Over 45 Dec 1981
2 Chas & Dave Ain't No Pleasing You Mar 1982
6 Matchroom Mob with Chas & Dave Snooker Loopy May 1986

5 Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad Ossie's Dream (Spurs Are On Their Way To Wembley) May 1981
19 Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad Tottenham Tottenham May 1982

Were they responsible for:

18 Tottenham Hotspur FA Cup Final Squad Hot Shot Tottenham! May 1987

?

12 Glenn & Chris Diamond Lights Apr 1987

(x-post with mice elf)

Didn't Bruce Forsyth do the '61 Spurs song - "Tip Top Tottenham Hotspur" or something similar?

I found a load of secondhand Chas and Dave records recently (god knows why in Holland), and was struck by the impressively stained, uneven, unpolished quality of their teeth. There was nobility in the ugliness. I almost bought one. Sometimes I think Marcello is capable of persuading me that Showaddywaddy or the Goom Bay Dance Band have some hidden spark of genius.

They invented Rockney, thus influencing Simon Williams, and his mad genre-labelling exercises. (Williams is a Walthamstow lad- perhaps it's a NE London thing)
They were a huge influence on the LIbertines (probably not a positive)

I have seen them twice, once at White Hart Lane, where the entire Shelf booed them as they mimed 'Ain't No Pleasin' You' at half time (for an Xmas special). And on the bill at the Ian Dury tribute, where a family of fat cockneys barged me and the wife out of the way, as they ran to the front, dad yelling 'Cahmm ornnn, they're playing Margate!'

What the fuck does Tony Meo say at the end of his verse? It sounds like "I always bite me eyeballs", but that doesn't make any sense.

Apparently it might be slang for crying?

Chas and Dave, the popular cockneys whose knees-up music was as much part of the soundtrack to the 1980s as U2 or Madonna, announced today they are to split up.

First Florian leaves Kraftwerk and now this

Hmmm, how's Florian's cockney accent?

"I don't care, I don't care, I don't care if he comes rount hier
I've got mein bier in das sideboard hier let Mutti sort it out if he comes round hier"

Got more robot that Sainsbury's that guy.

that than

"Snooker Loopy Nüsse sind wir
Ich und er und sie und mich
Wir zeigen Ihnen, was wir tun können
Mit einer Belastung von Kugeln und einem Snooker-Queue"

Would be so great if Kraftwerk were into snooker instead of cycling.

World Snooker Champs ist kein problem
Live from Reading Hexagon

It's More Fun To Pot Black

From station to station
Back to Sheffield City
Meet Steve Davis and Stephen Hendry

........on the Trans-Pennine Express' Obv.

Boing Boom Tchas and Dave

Another lonely night
Stare at the TV screen
I don't know what to do
I need a Ronnie O
Snooker love
Snooker love

"When me rock and roll records wake him up
Goethe!
When the Poles knock England out of the cup
Goethe!
When the kids are banging on his door
Goethe!"

"Snooker Loopy Nüsse sind wir
Ich und er und sie und mich
Wir zeigen Ihnen, was wir tun können
Mit einer Belastung von Kugeln und einem Snooker-Queue"

^^^^^

Wir gehen gehen gehen nach dem langeschwartze

Jetzt denkt man, meine ich nicht, was ich sage und ich bin nur bluffen
Du hast eine andere Sache, die kommt, bin ich ya sagen, dass umsonst
Oh Darlin' ich fahre, das ist, was ich zu tun

Hell of an obit

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/16/observer-obituaries-2018-charles-hodges-remembered-by-david-peacock-chas-and-dave

had no idea chas was a joe meek regular. never enough praise for meek. gertcha.

He's in the Joe meek biopic, played by someone else, and playing someone else.

On 12-string acoustic here, for some reason...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF0FyV-Y-y8

wow!