Entertainment For Lively Minds
All You Need Is Loughborough
Posted by Mondo on 9 September 2008 - 10:23am.
The train was delayed, the mp3 player had died and the Alex James biog’ had finally been finished – so what else was there to do while waiting for ‘a trespasser to be removed from the track’ apart from work out stealthy ways of substituting UK place names into song titles?
Oh Wantage, Up Yours
Great Rock and Roll Swindon
Are all fine and dandy, but Loughborough seems to be where the real pay-off is.
A World Without Loughborough
Feels Like I’m In Loughborough
I’m Not In Loughborough
Damn I Wish I Was Your Loughborough
Any more nonsense for the musical map?
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Do counties count?
If so how about "The bed's too big without you"?
Or if we have to stick to towns "Aldershot by both sides"
How Soon is Slough?
Street Fighting Manchester
Liverpool and Let Die
50 ways to leave your Loughborough
Knocking on Devon's Door
A View to a Killikrankie (sp?)
Leicester spend the night together
well it's close to Loughborough.
the powys of love,
and isn't there a CW song "you're Norfolking good for me baby"
stop me I love pun I do
When will I Guernsey you again?
The Sark end of the street
Kent use to losing you
Devon knows I’m miserable now
Loughborough'll Tear You Apart
Well, it does if you live nearby.
Two Severns Clash
Barbra Streisand: The Wye We Wear
Rod Stewart: I Derwent Want To Talk About It
Booker T & The MGs: Tyne is Tight
Fleetwood Mac: Irwell
Lene Lovich: Lucky Humber
Culture Club: Calder Chameleon
David Bowie: Life on Mersey
Madonna: Ouse That Girl
Piddle About
Bob Dylan - The Thames They Are A Changing
The Clash - Avon Calling
Anoraky in the UK
Fairport Convention- UnhalfBrixham
John Martyn - Solid Ayr
Boney M - Paignton Man
Band names but worth including...
Camber Sands Beethoven
The Good, The Bad and the Queens Park Rangers
Amy Limehouse
You reds!
Watching Forest at Oxford a few years ago. We amused ourselves for minutes singing:
"onleeeeee ... twenty four hours from Towcester...!"
(Won, 1-0, by the way)
'Can I Get To Widnes'
'Can I Get To Widnes' (Marvin Gaye) is a popular request to train station staff all over the North West.
Knutsford City Limits is another popular call when heading up the M62.
Carter USM made a virtual cottage industry of this pun related game:
The Only Living Boy In New Cross
Twenty-Four Minutes to Tulse Hill
you missed
"the taking of Peckham 123"
Got my new rollerskates on...
Brand Newquay
really bored...
Highway To Hull - AC/DC
Windsor Takes It All - abba
Roll of drum and crash of cymbal...
'Highway To Hull'... excellent!
surrey is the hardest word to say
Isle or wightshade of pale
sciliy wine drinker me (?) not sure that's right
This is getting very ISIHAC
shipping forecast
Tyree steps to heaven
sole Man
Rockall night long
When I'm Viking of the world
Head Dover heels in love with you
southwark right back
doesn't the pink panther theme start "durham, durham, durham.... I'll have me lunhc now and sir down
Don't look back in Bangor
I heard you say. Anyway I've got a ticket to Ryde to see the Needles and the damage done.
Ongar, surely
Should that be Don't Look Back in Ongar?
Which brings to mind the (aprocryphal?) classic local newspaper headline about the shortage of books in the small Essex town's library: Book Lack in Ongar.
no it was the lack of particular fishing equipment
or was it not enough qualified chefs for local hotels or was there something about a local haulage firm running out of Lorries......
'Ticket To Ryde'
as sung by at least 30% of passengers on the Wightlink ferry.
wake me up before you
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogo(ch)!
I think
we've just found the winner.
Hear
hear!
A few more to sling in afore I scoot
Adam Ant - Prince Charminster
Beastie Boys - To The Farnboroughs
Dee-lite - Groove is in the Herts
Or
Happiness Is A Warm Gunnersbury?
By the way, where's my subscription copy?!
Warwick,what is it good for?
Like a Battle out of hell - Meatloaf.
Best group? Durham,Durham.
I'm rubbish at this but...
... Glasgow West
Lust for Fife
Stairway to Elgin
(shoots self)
Can I get a Widnes
http://www.listopia.co.uk/list.php?l=31
How many of you got them from here ?
Check out the tribute acts one too
Like A Rolling...
... Sloane / Bat Out Of Hull / Halifax Is A Warm Gun / (Why why why) Devizes? / Pennies From Hebburn / Shoot That Poison Jarrow.
Monkey Gone to...
...Stevenage?
No, you're right. I'll get me coat.
Another Paul Weller covers album coming soon...
Just Woking in the Rain
These Boots are made for Woking
Woking back to Happiness
Woking on Sunshine
Woking for the Yankee Dollar
...and many, many more
Woking for the Yankee Dollar
That would fit the Songs About Work thread too...
London Underground special
Byrds - 'Turn! Turn! Turnham Green!'
Village People - 'Go Westminster'
Roxy Music - 'Morden This'
REM - 'Ealing Broadway's Pull' (thud)
Police - 'Canary Wharf in a Coalmine'
Slightly off-topic - apart from 'Baker Street' and 'Waterloo' - any other Underground stations share their names with a song?
See you down in the tube station at midnight, etc ...
Finchley Central
The Bonzo's I think.
Ian Dury could of course have been the ticket man at Fulham Broadway station.
I can't think of any puns...
Am I too late...
...to suggest "Twenty Hours From Tulse Hill"?
My anorak is twitching...
Shurely "Twenty FOUR Hours from Tulse Hill" which I think was by Gene Putney.
Not a song but an album...
'Slough Train Coming'
Going continental
Otis Redding´s " I´ve been Louvin you for Toulon"
or "Come on Orleans "
Home is where the Hartford is..
My current residence :
'Move Over Darlington' (Doris Day)
'Tees Me' (Chaka Demus and Pliers ...sorry!)
My homeland :
'Mama Wirral Krazee Now' (Slade)
Sure there's more.....
Rich
many rivers to cross off the list
David Bowie - Ribble Ribble
Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go Medway
Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Spey I Loved You
And there's moor
Exmoor yourself - NWA
Cam-bridge over troubled water - Simon & Garfunkel
Telford - The Tornado's
I still Havant found what I'm looking for - U2
Aldershot the sheriff - Bob Marley
Poison Harrow - ABC
Sevenoaks - James
I get Arundel - Beach Boys
Sexual Ealing - Marvin Gaye
Late 80s Geopop
Bass (Harlow Can You Go?) - Simon Harris
Beat Diss - Bomb the Bass
What Have You Done For Me Yateley? - Janet Jackson
Tring Tring Tring - Curiosity Killed The Cat
Rich
One for Roy Keane
I wont let the Sunderland go down on me.
Stoke gets in your eyes
You've Gloucester that loving feeling
The Sussex and Kent album
Eastbourne in the USA - Brooce
Hastings can only get better - D-Ream
Glad all Dover - Dave Clark Five
Brighton time - Black Box
Running up that Bexhill - Kate Bush
Battle be the day - Buddy Holly
Tonbridge over troubled water - Simon and Garfunkel
Ticket to Rye - Fabs
Sussex bomb - Tom Jones
You Kent always get what you want - Stones
Smiths/REM
Fort William It Was Really Nothing
Don´t Go Back to Rochdale
They keep coming
Knowle With It - Oasis
Knowsley Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
Netherne Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley (Netherne - small village just outside Croydon/Coulsdon where my mate lives!)
Errr...
'Potters Barbara Ann'?
Surprised no-one's yet mentioned
The Temptations tribute to the Liverpool suburb of "Maghull"
(I'm talking 'bout Maghull...)
Not great, but it is 20 to midnight....
Alveston - Glen Campbell
Solways on my mind - Elvis
Jenny don't be Hastings - Paulo Nutini
Coming late, as usual, to the discussion
Eastleigh on Sunday Morning
If I had a Hammersmith
The Winchester Lineman
Back in the Utoxeter
Warwick, what is it good for? (and of course anything by Dionne)
I'm Stone in love with you
Is anyone posting here actually the comedian Rich Hall?
He's quite good at this kind of thing and I was getting suspicious...