It's Grim Up North - what, no BlackPOLL!?

Hmmm. Are we voting for places or the delivery of the lines or what? "Scarborough-on-Sea" is great on the record, but fucked if I'm voting for anything with Scunthorpe on it.

That's the dilemma - Warrington, Widnes and Wigan all in the same line. I'd suggest solving it by using bluff, no-nonsense common sense.

The middle lines don't feature on this clip, by the way - they're from the nine-minute full version, which doesn't have a video.

My 12inch got consumed in a fire :(

Voted for the M62, aorta of the North.

I don't know why Leigh gets in twice

This track is NOIZE!

Ossett, Otley, Ilkley Moor for me. It's a great vocal performance - the accent has exactly the right amount of grimness, where a local voice might have brought an unwelcome comic edge. The rare original, with a young David Cameron on vocals (he's an uncredited cowriter here), lacks a bit of steel.

why didn't he say Bradford and Bingley together? would've been HILARIOUS

To be fair, he does do the Nelson Colne gag. I was like no mate thats in London innit.

Brighouse, Bootle, Featherstone, Speke <- poetry that one

The one with "Keighley", for teaching me the strange pronunciation of that place.

Ormskirk represent.

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/icliverpool/aug2006/9/3/306C7A07-E731-414B-C8DD7E25F05318D4.jpg

David Cameron reminisces, yesterday

Sheffield, Manchester, Castleford, Skem

Because one of those four has given the world a lot of ace music, and also a fantastic football team :)

Voted for the first line cos I live in Colne...which is resolutely in the north. Shame Nelson is on the same line though, that's a real dump and only 3 miles from me.

Didn't realise Geir was a Wednesday fan.

Colne; Home of the two Hartleys. Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster on the Titanic and William Pickles Hartley, Founder of the Hartleys jam empire. Also home to the best Rhubarb in Britain, the Cheeky Monkeys of some talent show or other, fame and The Great Rhythym and Blues festival. It's the town that keeps on giving...

Wasn't the Milltown Brothers from there tho, on the debit side?

Hahaha! yes "They" were!

Colne; Home of the two Hartleys. Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster on the Titanic and William Pickles Hartley, Founder of the Hartleys jam empire. Also home to the best Rhubarb in Britain, the Cheeky Monkeys of some talent show or other, fame and The Great Rhythym and Blues festival. It's the town that keeps on giving...

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Saturday, 22 November 2008 12:05 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Also the home of Colne Dynamoes, the term who set the template for the Grantham Town/Leigh RMI/Northwich Victoria "non-league team with stupidly unrealistic ambitions and no money to achieve them with" model.

Colne; Home of the two Hartleys. Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster on the Titanic and William Pickles Hartley, Founder of the Hartleys jam empire. Also home to the best Rhubarb in Britain, the Cheeky Monkeys of some talent show or other, fame and The Great Rhythym and Blues festival. It's the town that keeps on giving...

― Sven Hassel Schmuck, Saturday, 22 November 2008 12:05 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Also the home of Colne Dynamoes, the term who set the template for the Grantham Town/Leigh RMI/Northwich Victoria "non-league team with stupidly unrealistic ambitions and no money to achieve them with" model.

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 22 November 2008 12:25 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

True. They are now home to the only pies I've ever bought that actually rattle when you shake them.

Grimsby, Glossop, Hebden Bridge

This, for the delivery. Although I feel I'm selling out my Lancastrian roots.

Actually, no: fuck my Lancastrian roots. I hated living in Blackpool. Nostalgia be damned.

This is one of my favourite songs ever, though -- and stands head and shoulders over any other "art", "pop" or "statement" the KLF ever made. I remember there was an ad for it on p2 of the NME one week in ... whatever year it was (91? 92?) ... which I tore out and stuck on my wall; the infamous image of the bridge with the graffiti. Irony be damned, too.

anatol_merklich:
> The one with "Keighley", for teaching me the strange pronunciation of that place.

One thing that really annoys me about the Tim Hart & Maddy Prior version of Dalesman's Litany is the mispronunciation of Keighley as 'Keely'. It makes me very angry for some reason, but I suppose you'd have to be a Yorkshire pedant to understand.

I'll have to go for 'Skem', though - solely for the reason that when I was at school this used to be what we called penile smegma. I wonder if it was a Yorkshire versus Lancashire thing and kids across the boundary said their mates "smelled like Skipton" or something.

We didn't, but I wish we had. My grandparents used to live in Skipton, and I fucking loathed it ;)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Chester, Chorley, Cheadle Hulme

(i like the way he says "cheadle ... hulme".

I've only been to three of these - Scarborough, York and Manchester - though I did change trains at Leeds once. I've driven on the M62 as well I think.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

No NE, no cred.

ooh the memories. i bought this cd single from woolworths on the morning of my wedding day.
priorities and all that.