BBC ‘World Cup Theme’ discussions
by Herr DannyAn unnamed source advises WCH that meetings are taking place at BBC TV’s ‘World Cup Office’ in Cheadle, regarding music for the channel’s coverage of the big event.
Current favourites are:
Pato Banton ‘Baby Come Back’
Martine McCutcheon ‘Perfect Moment’
Was Not Was ‘Shake Your Head’.
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Billy Ocean – Caribbean Queen
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Nena - 99 Luftballons
German Eurovision entry
Anything by the Hoff
On the BBC’s banned list for the duration of the world cup and two weeks either side…
Dambuster’s theme tune
“Hitler has only got one ball”
Any episodes of Dad’s Army
That episode of Fawlty Towers where Basil says, “Don’t mention the war!”
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Billy Ocean is banned too.
May 3rd, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Altern8 have been seen around Cheadle in the last few days. Apparently Adrian Chiles is a fan.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
BBC Manchester are apparently pushing for anything by the Seahorses, although rumour has it that down in London Wrighty has succeeded in getting Big Mountain’s Baby I love your way on the shortlist
May 4th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Shed Seven - Bully Boy
May 4th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
I’d like to hear Rick Witter and the woman from Blackbox do a version of - ‘Up Where We Belong’.
May 4th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
A cover of World in Motion by Journey South
May 4th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
breaking news, ‘Fog on the Rhine’, Gazza and Terry Venables feat Lindisfarne.
May 4th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
I hear Gabby Logan is going to do a cover of Nena’s “99 Red Balloons” for ITV, so frankly the BBC could get away with playing “Terry Gilliam defecating in a bucket”.
May 5th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Lured by the Kraut Euro, I hear Frank Skinner has sold his soul to the Teutons and has recorded “Drei Löwen” a song which tells the ‘tail’ of three oafish lions who have somehow bumbled their way to Germany and now mistakenly believe that were it not for one of the lions stubbing his toe, they would have surely won the World Cup.
May 5th, 2006 at 9:19 am
Who was it that sang ‘Terry Gilliam defecating in a bucket’?? Living In A Box? Hue and Cry?
What’s David Baddiel up to? Making some special World Cup editions of The Mary Whitehouse Experience?
May 5th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Kraftwerk’s Tour De France - just the “oo, ah” bit and the riff - cut to montages of foottball, german things and subliminal shots of Lawro et al dancing only in Cycling Shorts. The back of the brain confusion it would instil in potential hooligans will ensure a peaceful world cup.
June 8th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
we might as well get real here!!
the kaiser chief “I predict a riot”
June 9th, 2006 at 10:21 am
Check out the one by BBC Radio Leeds and Bradford College Music students -
definitely the best of the bunch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2006/06/08/radio_leeds_metatarsals_feature.shtml