Fat Les to spoil Embrace World Cup party
Alex James says offical tune can 'suck my cock'
Blur bassist Alex James and Fat Les are planning to spoil Embrace's World Cup party with the announcement that they are considering writing a rival song for the tournament.
Embrace are set to soundtrack the sporting summer with the official England World Cup song, 'World At Your Feet'.
However, upset at the choice, James is in talks about doing his own song, along with Fat Les mate Keith Allen, and possibly even Echo And The Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch too.
"Every winter I forget how cold it gets, and it's like that with every World Cup - you forget how fucking huge it is," the Blur bassist told NME.COM. "The whole world comes to a halt. People have been saying, 'Are you going to do a football record?' and I'm like, 'No', but you start getting a sniff of it. And it's like, 'Embrace?'. I'd do a fucking better job than that. Keith Allen's been calling. I've been thinking about it."
He added: "Ian McCulloch's been singing 'Come on, come on, you fucking England' to the Bryan Ferry song 'Let's Stick Together'. You take the backing track from that, stick McCulloch singing 'Come on, come on, you fucking England!' and Embrace can fucking suck my cock."
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)
My first thought was "that's genius".
But then I came to my senses. It is shit. Sounds like a pastiche of terrace culture.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)
http://www.nme.com/images/84_AlexJames_L060406.jpgSigh. You just do this to torture me, don't you Alex? You don't even like football, either! I know it's Keith Allen twisting your arm and making you do it. Besides, you're secretly taking the *piss* out of Footie Culture, aren't you? Yes, I know you are.
Anyway, no Damien Hirst, and it's not Fat Les.
― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:11 (twenty years ago)
Regardless, points to Alex for telling Embrace to suck his cock.
― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 7 April 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)
ILM needs a Geir Embrace thread. I predict INSIGHT~!He's on record as saying they're "not melodic enough" for him, and he prefers Travis. Suits me.
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)
six years pass...
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.. or even, Fit Les Olympic album?
1. Dave, We Don't Believe You (Theme) 0:47
2. Trumpet Punks 1:40
3. Lordy, Lordy 2:41
4. The Olympics Are Coming (Theme) 0:56
5. The Nelsons 1 1:21
6. Dave, We Don't Believe You 1:57
7. Chaffinch Diary #1 1:55
8. Iggy Pop's in Town Again 2:40
9. The River Lea 1:53
10. Chaffinch Diary #2 2:16
11. They Won't Allow Us to Go 1:40
12. The Flame's Tour 1:34
13. Pigeon & Chaffinch #1 3:41
14. Once Was an Actor 2:50
15. What Did You Do During the Olympics? 1:10
16. Silver Medal 2:23
17. Pimp My Ride 0:37
18. Will Cliff Be There? 2:53
19. Pigeon & Chaffinch #2 2:29
20. Lonely Girl 2:09
21. Shareen & Colin 3:35
22. Up a Bloody Tree (Theme) 0:44
23. The Torch's Fury 1:16
24. Rebekah Brooks' Hair 2:35
25. Sunset Over London 1:07
26. The Hoax 4:23
27. Up a Bloody Tree 2:08
28. Kirani Takes the Stage 1:06
29. Kirani James 3:17
30. Give the Games Back to the People 1:35
31. The Olympics Are Coming! (Hidden Track) 6:24
― Mark G, Friday, 21 September 2012 14:02 (thirteen years ago)
Um...a little late, surely?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 September 2012 14:30 (thirteen years ago)
Here all week, ladies and gentlemen.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 September 2012 14:35 (thirteen years ago)