Reviewed by James Tabbinor
Well, there isn’t a great deal to say about the latest single from The Lancashire Hotpots, because, being a novelty folk band, it’s very much a novelty record. The lyrics are all comic and tongue in cheek musings on a beer drinking event at the 2012 Olympics, in which binge-drinking Britain would undoubtedly triumph with help from the wisdom of personal trainer Johnny Vegas. The B-sides are much in the same fashion, with ‘Mek Us A Brew’ being a lament to drinking tea, and a scathing attack on fancy latte serving coffee joints, and the dance mix of ‘The Beer Olympics’ is again tongue in cheek, with the backing track being in the vein of ‘Cotton-eye Joe’ and other such cheesy dance.
It’s funny, I’ll give them that, and people might say I shouldn’t take it so seriously but I can’t give them anything more than a poor score, purely because like most novelty records the novelty wears off long before you’ve reached the end of the track, sorry lads!
2/5
Track Listing: Speciality, it’s novelty folk for Christ’s sake!
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