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Mike Read sings pro-UKIP calypso song in a fake-Caribbean accent

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Wasn't it him that did the Jesus And Mary Chain a big favour by getting 'Some Candy Talking' banned from Radio 1? Gave it a big leg up into the Top 20 iirc.

Looks like he's as clueless as ever.
 
...I think this is some of his better work actually...

Looks like he's as clueless as ever.

precisely how clueless you ask......I seem to dimly recall from the pages of the yellow press that he was quite energetically pursuing the fragrant Fiona Fullerton at one stage and seriously fancied his chances...
 
He's singing in a cod Jamaican accent. Badly. Enunciation is never going to be a strong point.

It sounds a lot less clear on the recorded version posted in the other thread, but that one up there it's deffo 'do'.

If it's calypso, shouldn't it be a cod Trinidadian accent?
 
If it's calypso, shouldn't it be a cod Trinidadian accent?
what they should have done is to get someone with a halfway decent voice - even brucie would have been better than mike read



but for the sort of music ukip seem to want you don't want a dj but someone like the great harry belafonte



i understand he's unavailable so i suppose farage had to go with what he had in stock.
 
Wasn't it him that did the Jesus And Mary Chain a big favour by getting 'Some Candy Talking' banned from Radio 1? Gave it a big leg up into the Top 20 iirc.

Looks like he's as clueless as ever.

Relax by Frankie goes to Hollywood was his most famous 'banning that backfired', but there could be others.
 
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