Sham 69 on Newsnight

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Old punks never die...

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 29 September 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

they just get groped by jonathan king

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 29 September 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

I missed this - details?

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 29 September 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

If the kids... was played at the labour party conference as our great leader's walk-to-the-stage footstomper. So as he made his way through the audience shaking as many hands as he could, you had Jimmy Pursey's rasping voice yelling at full volume.

Cut to yesterday's Newsnight and Sham 69 were in the studio performing a (very ham-fisted) 'satirical' reworking of the song.

It was too weird for words.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

awful is a word.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

apparently Paxman was yelling "Buncha' fookin amateurs' at them.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

I thought the guitarist looked a good deal like Marco Pirroni. I wonder if it was him? I tried to find out on the Sham 69 website, but the answer wasn't forthcoming and then I was scared away by the absoulte mountain of comic sans to be seen there.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I found the unplugged nature of the thing quite surreal, especially as the bassist insisted on doing that macho punk bassist pose.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Unlikely to be Marco I think, how big was he? Last time I saw Marco he was the size of a small car.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

This fellow was not the size of a car, unless you mean a very very small car.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 30 September 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, I was about to say he looked like 30% of Marco Pirroni

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 30 September 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

If somebody could YSI John Prescott taking lead vocals on "Hurry Up Harry" I'd be very happy. Blunkett on "Borstal Breakout" was shit. Bad idea to led the dog take the chorus, I think.

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Friday, 30 September 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

"Millbank Boys, Millbank Boys
Laced up boots and corduroys
Millbank Boys, Millbank Boys
They call us the cunts who ruined the Labour Party"

... sorry, can't get the last bit to scan

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 30 September 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

"Walter Wolfgang is INNOCENT
Walter Wolfgang is INNOCENT..."

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 30 September 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure there's a Wolfgang Press joke lurking in there somewhere.

― Japanese Giraffe (Japanese Giraffe), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

~~Jimmy Pursey~~ Tony Blair and ~~Sham 69~~ New Labour - the authentic voice of Britain's working class.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 30 September 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.congressionalgoldmedal.com/TonyBlairSpeechCongress1.jpg

Tell us the truth....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 30 September 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,394777,00.jpg

If the kids are united....

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 30 September 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.deputyprimeminister.co.uk/john_prescott_thump1.jpg

http://www.compuserve.co.uk/channels/news/photospecials/prescott/prezza3.jpg

"I've been drinking too many pints of lager
I've been getting into too many bleedin' fights
I came home with sick all down me trousers
I've got lovebites all around me neck"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 30 September 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

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