modest british place names in song

[isvicthere?]

"Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees", which not only features Leyton in the band's name also mentions Balham and Golders Green.

 

[Mr Moose]

Sillybollocks Pete Doherty rhymes Catford and Watford in ‘Albion’.

 

[Mr Moose]

Bugger that. The Stranglers "Dagenham Dave"

On route to ‘Norfolk Coast’.

 

[skyscraper101]

Solsbury Hill

Beasley Street

 

[friedaweed]

Tied up in Knots.

 

[Mr Moose]

Sham 69 - Hersham boys.

 

[Mr Moose]

Panic on the streets of Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee and Humberside. Someone might be wearing a burkha, oh woah woah etc.

 

[Flavour]

I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham...

 

[Steel Icarus]

Kayleigh mentions Belsize Park.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Jam - there’s a row going on down near Slough...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Jamie T, Sticks and Stones - can’t be stuck in Hampton Wick, with the boys across the platform shouting Lightweight Prick!

 

[MrSki]

On route to ‘Norfolk Coast’.

The river Thames is cold.

 

[Johnny Doe]

Been Southampton but I've never been to Scunthorpe

 

[BCBlues]

isvicthere? got me thinking theres a Department S tune with lots of place names.

Its "Shes Expecting You" which is a sort of vinyl satnav.
B side of "Going Left Right"

 

[friendofdorothy]

Smiths, cant remember which song-

what do you get for your trouble and pain?
just a squalid room in Whalley Range...​

 

[skyscraper101]

Robots in Disguise - Postcards From...

“Seasons slurred on the Harrow Road”

 

[Mr Moose]

Heading out of Bradford with a ticket on the train...