Streatham by Dave mentions Leicester, where I was born.
I live Leeds now though and that’s mentioned in Panic and the queen is dead by the smiths, and obvs I predict a riot by the kiaser chiefs is about Leeds but doesnt quite mention Leeds just says Leodensian meaning someone from Leeds….
Sweet in winter sweet in rain
Shake well before use she said
You never touch me anymore this way
Connector in
Receiver out
You let me in through the back door
Ride the sainted rhythms on the midnight train to romford
Ride the sainted rhythms
Another one from Romford here (actually I’m from Horchurch)
Shouting, “Lager, lager, lager, lager
Mega, mega white thing, mega, mega white thing”
So many things to see and do in the tube hole, true blonde
Going back to Romford, mega, mega, mega
Going back to Romford, hi mum, are you having fun?
And now are you on your way to a new tension and headache?
@nobbingsford beat me to it with Whitley Bay and Dire Straits, so without resorting to a Google search the best I could come up with is the 80s or 90s McEwans Best Scotch advert with the line: “Florida’s horrider than Whitley Bay…”
Though I don’t live in Hartlepool I do go to work there. Electric Six Unnatural Beauty must be referring to Hartlepool with ‘Monkey Hangers’ and a ‘little town in Teeside’
Half Man Half Biscuit is a rich source of obscure place names.
References quite a few Peak District towns and villages including where I live with the immortal lyrics
“No frills, handy for the hills, that’s the way you spell New Mills!”
The Sex Pistols may very well have wanted anarchy across the whole sovereignty, so imagine my delight when the Dead Kennedys pin-pointed my home town for their overseas revolution. (I think we only appear properly in the KLF one…)
I am currently residing in the gloriously named Nempnett Thrubwell in Somerset. The Wurzels are locals, but I didn’t realise that Acker Bilk (also local) recorded a cover. That’s proper celebrity!
If you find life a race, you just can’t stand the pace,
Come with me to the West Country – the perfect hiding place:
Pack your bags, and make your way to Somerset, and I will lay
Ten to one you’ll wanna stay down in Nempnett Thrubwell.
There’s not a pub, there ain’t a shop, you never see a traffic cop
Drink up, and no-one says “stop”, down in Nempnett Thrubwell…
My old part of the world. My Dad grew up in Nempnett – Mary Paddock Farm if you know it?
Moved and now farms in Clutton.
I also used to deliver papers to Acker Bilk when I was a lad living in Pensford!