Songs lyrics featuring BRITISH place names

[Delusional Pengoon]

Norfolk Broads: Life on Mars

London Girl: The Jam

 

[Frutos]

Sussex By The Sea

 

[Buzzer]

It's Grim Up North - KLF

Bolton,
Barnsley,
Nelson,
Colne,
Burnley
Bradford,
Buxton,
Crewe,
Warrington,
Widnes,
Wigan,
Leeds,
Northwich,
Nantwich,
Knutsford,
Hull,
Sale,
Salford,
Southport,
Leigh,
Derby,
Kearsley
Keighley
Maghull,
Harrogate,
Huddersfield,
Oldham, Lancs,
Grimsby,
Glossop,
Hebden Bridge,
Brighouse,
Bootle,
Featherstone,
Speke,
Runcorn,
Rotherham,
Rochdale,
Barrow,
Morecambe,
Macclesfield,
Lytham St. Annes
clitheroe,
Cleethorpes,
The M62,
Pendlebury,
Prestwich,
Preston,
York,
Skipton,
Scunthorpe,
Scarborough-on-Sea,
Chester,
Chorley,
Cheedle Hulme,
Ormskirk,
Accrington Stanley,
and Leigh,
Ossett,
Otley,
Ikley Moor,
Sheffield,
Manchester,
Castleford,
Skem,
Doncaster,
Dewsbury,
Halifax,
Bingley,
Bramall

 

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London Calling

 

[Delusional Pengoon]

Oh Manchester, so much to answer for: The Smiths

 

[Marc]

ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE

"So What"

So f***ing what!

Well I've been to Hastings
And I've been to Brighton
I've been to Eastbourne too
So what, so what

...




song is f***ing BRILLIANT, Metallica did agreat cover too!

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Bat out of Hull?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

in a dire straights song it mentions the spanish city in whitley bay

can't remember which one

 

[Biscuit]

Brighton, Pinball Wizard: The Who.

Doesn't a Mungo Gerry song mention Brighton?

 

[Muzzman]

Lyrics or song titles??

Lyrics:

"From Soho down to Brighton he must have played them all" - Pinball Wizard

Title:

No Sheep till Buxton - Macc Ladds

 

[Biscuit]

"From Soho down to Brighton he must have played them all" - Pinball Wizard

Beat ya to it!

 

[Starry]

London's Torn - CDA

Southend - CDA

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

rotherham in "fake tales of san francisco" by the arctic monkeys

 

[Muzzman]

Beat ya to it!

Only because I bothered to write the full line rather then just 'Brighton'..

edant:

 

[Buzzer]

Girl VII - Saint Etienne

Primrose Hill, Staten Island, Chalk Farm, Massif Central, Gospel Oak, Sao Paolo, Boston Manor, Costa Rica, Arnos Grove, San Clemente, Tufnell Park, Gracetown(?), York Way(?), Videoton(?), Clerkenwell, Portobello, Maida Vale, Old Ford, Valencia, Kennington, Galveston, Holland Park, Studamer, Dollis Hill, Fougeres, London Fields, Bratislava, Haggerston, Lavinia(?), Canonbury, Alice Springs, Tooting Graveney, Baffin Island, Pollard's Hill, Winnepeg, Plumstead Common, Hyderabad, Silvertown, Buffalo.

 

[Delusional Pengoon]

Sealed with a Glasgow Kiss: Carter USM

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

"you're not from brighton"

fatboy slim

 

[supaseagull]

Scarborough Fayre - Simon & Garfunkel
Going down to liverpool - Bangles

 

[cheshunt seagull]

'I gave him roasted toadstools and glass of dandelion wine and I put him on a train to Eastbourne, carried his bags and gave him a fag'
Bowie: Laughing Gnome

 

[Norman Potting]

"Brighton Rock" by Queen - which I believe only mentions Brighton in the title, not the lyrics.

Can we start a sub thread "Songs with British Place Names in the title but not in the lyrics"?