Moving forward together

[webofevil]

How would you feel if your city council decided to commission its own theme tune? Would you be glad it had decided to forge a distinctive identity for itself, the town and its residents, albeit at taxpayers’ expense? Or would your immediate response involve a great deal of swearing?

How about, to pluck an example at random, if the city council in question was Stoke-on-Trent and its specially written theme song sounded like this?

You will find, perhaps by the expedient of fast-forwarding, that things really pick up after the 2:08 mark.

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

What, exactly has that song got to do with Stoke-on-Trent? Off there in about an hour, and judging by that music I expect to see lots of people with Les McQueen-style mullets wandering around that cit-eh.

Still, you've got to go some to beat the early 80s alien-themed classic Energy in Northampton. Must be heard to be believed.

[uniquefergus.livejournal.com]

And would you say it was time for a change in this sitt-ay?

[nja.livejournal.com]

If they were going to commission some 1980s disco, couldn't they have found someone to do it properly? The singer from Living in a Box appears to be free (new album due in 2006!), although the theme tune would probably have gone something like this:

We're living in Stoke
We're living in Stoke
We're living in Stoke
We're living in Stoke-on-Trent

[lifesizemonkey.livejournal.com]

All they'd have to do in Gravesend (where i live) is to record what goes on outside the nightclub a few doors down from my flat on a Thursday night. That would encapsulate the horror of the place perfectly.

[markrimmell.livejournal.com]

Having heard the theme tune I think a great deal of swearing closely followed by a carefully worded letter to the relevant councillors.

The lyrics "it's time for a change in this city" makes one think it's crap in Stoke-on-Trent but it's going to get better soon... just as soon as they've stopped singing about it.

Mind you, it has got us talking about Stoke-on-Trent.

[internetsdairy.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. There are boxes and boxes of that single mouldering in a council office in Milton Keynes.