20 Apr 2008
Stick this in your Volvo glove compartment
Corgi Registered Friends is another bit of middle class bashing (see Paintball’s Coming Home, etc etc etc). And it’s one of my favourites. I’m not sure I’d like to explain to anyone why they’d need to ensure your friends were CORGI registered though. Thanks to Patrick and to gNick
See lyrics to Corgi Registered Friends
9 Letters Sent:
Ian Ritson
Second line is definitely “It’s said the one-eyed man is king”
Sep 10th, 2008
Chris The Siteowner
One of those ones where it depends on which version you listen to; in the Radio Merseyside gig it’s definitely “They say…” but on the album, you’re right, it’s “It’s said…”
Sep 10th, 2008
Mick Ransom
I always thought that the last line was.. “Stick-Mitt in your Volvo” (glove compartment). Stick-Mitts are those gloves that pick all of the bits off your clothes.. and are a well known middle-class favourite!
Sep 25th, 2008
s.g.d A Shropshire Lad
Kitzbuhel not Kitzbuehel?
Apr 11th, 2010
Third Rate Les
Well, technically Kitzbühel with an umlaut on the u, but in the absence of that it’s conventional to put an e afterwards (which is what an umlaut means).
So you’re kind of right, but so am I. Which is nice.
Apr 11th, 2010
Charles Exford
Last night on 6Music, Gideon Coe was plugging some sort of festival-coverage-type-promotion. I paraphrase:
“Although I live by the Tao of Half Man Half Biscuit and believe we should always say “Glastonbury”, on this occasion I will make an exception” [and say "Glasto" cos it's in the name of the contest or whatever it was].
Now I dunno about you lot, but to me this is another example of a typical tendency for HMHB fans to perhaps misunderstand the kind of fun that is being poked, and to spread the tar too broadly and the feathers indiscriminately.
I read the song as slamming those pretentious armchair BBC2 Glastonbury watchers who would say “Glasto” without ever having been there or without ever wishing to go there while it has anything even slightly interesting left about it.
Not slamming everyone who either (i) goes there, or (ii) says “Glasto” if they do.
c.f. CAMRA-men, often worthy of satire. CAMRA itself, surely a noble cause. He said, quaffing from last Sunday’s beer festival leftovers (Isle of Arran Brewdog at 10% cos it’s spent months in old whisky barrels) and wondering whether to un-tuck his shirt.
Jun 8th, 2010
Ben
I think it’s aimed at people who say “Glasto’”, period. And rightly so.
I loved Nigels audible sigh when introducing CAMRAman at Sheffield last year before saying “this one’s about me as much you lot”
Jun 8th, 2010
Dave F.
“I think it’s aimed at people who say “Glasto’”, period. And rightly so.”
Yes.
Even saying ‘Glastonbury’ is ridiculed by many who live locally, to whom it will always be Pilton Pop.
Jun 8th, 2010
Mr Larrington
It’s always been known as Glazed’n'furry round these parts.
Jun 9th, 2010
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