Berkshire
01. Windsor In Love With A Beautiful Woman
02. Don’t Stop Me Slough
03. Hurley In the Morning
04. The Winnersh Takes It All
05. Damn Right Ascot The Blues
06. I Wish I Know How It Would Theale To be Free
07. Wokingham a Coalmine
08. Remenham You’re A Womble
09. Charvil Woman
10. It’s Shinfield
If @leedsboy comes on here and nicks ‘Blackbushe City Limits’ then I shall be calling my lawyer
All sung by Otis Reading, presumably?
1) It’s A Cinderford
2) Sixteen Filtons
3)There’s A Bloke Works Down Chipping Sodbury Swears He’s Elvis
4) Song To The Cirencester
5) Stow-on-the-Wold Shep
6) Like A Rolling Stonehouse
7) Scarborough Fairford
8) 2-4-6-Yate Motorway
9) Thornbury In My Side
10) Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Stoke Gifford Tree
Performed by Noddy Holder & Slad?
@kid-dynamite, my Glazzerbruthafromanuthamutha!
1) When The Going Gets Tuffley (The Tuffley Get Going)
2) Hucclecote (track 1 on ooArr.E.M.’s second album)
3) Churchdown By Law
4) Brockworth Around The Clockworth
5) Stroud Mary
6) Natty Tredworth
7) Kingsholm on the Range
8) Shurdington Wouldington Couldington
9) I Got 99 Problems (But Wotton Pitch Ain’t One)
10) Just Like Longlevens
@disappointmentbob if you asked me I’d say I lived in Bristol, but I pay my council tax to South Gloucestershire, so…
also, how did neither of us think of Cam On Feel The Noize?
… or ‘Late In The Avening’?
11. Marlow Yellow
12. Burnham Bridges
Both in Buckinghamshire, Beezer!
Well done, Sgt Wilson. I wondered who’d be the first to spot that…
1) Cumbernauld! Feel The Noize! – Slade
2) Kilsyth Queen – Queen
3) Go Westfield – Cumbernauld Village People
4) Croy’s In The Attic – Aerosmith
5) Condorrat’s In Mi Kitchen – UB40
6) In The Airdrie Tonight – Phil Collins
7) Coatbridge Of Many Colours – Dolly Parton
8) (Buck) Fast Car – Tracy Chapman
9) Ned On by The Pixies
10) Crap by Radiohead
One for the Isle of Wight…
Uptown Top Shanklin.
I have just finished helping Ms Pajp with pre-Easter homework that was not done, but has to be handed in tomorrow, so need to get myself into punning mode and try to think of a few more.
Apart the obvious “Ticket to Ryde”, “Ryde a White Swan”, &c., I’m struggling with the Isle of Wight.
“Bonchurch of the Poison Mind” perhaps?
World Shut Yarmouth?
Good! I was trying with Yarmouth, but it wasn’t working.
I do have two more:
Niton Day
Wootton Heart
As above, Ventnor going gets tough …
East Sussex:
1. I Can Seaford Miles
2. Brighton Time (no no, no no no no…)
3. Is Lewes or is you ain’t my baby
4. Give Peacehaven a Chance
5. Me and the Falmer
6. Eastbourne Under a Bad Sign
7. Sompting
8. Ringmer Bell
9. Tell Me Rye
10. Battle Be The Day
Woking For The Yankee Dollar
This Charming Isle Of Man
Still Biggin Hill
Esher Parade
Troon River
Wigan Work It Out
National Expreston
I’ve just read the rules. Sorry. Will do a Hampshire one when I’m less knackered.
Texas
1. WACO me up, before you Go Go
2. KILLEEN in the Name
3. HARDIN days night
4. KEMAH Chameleon
5. MARFA My Dear
6. Blue MUNDAY
7. So PHARR Away
8. I’m Leaving on a Jet PLANO
9. Uptown Top RANKIN
10. SHINER Light
A Top 5 from the Garden State
The Last Train to Clarkefield
A View to St Kilda
Tooraks of my Tears
Geelong has this been going on?
Melbourne in the USA (no it isn’t)
“I’m a Dandenong Highwayman, who you’re too scared to mention …”
Then there’s a mountain range called The Otways, but I really couldn’t be bothered.
Oxfordshire:
1. Thame (clock of the heart)
2. Bicester’ll my beating heart
3. Abingdon that road before
4. You’re the one that I Wantage
5. Chalgrove all night
6. Eleanor Witney
7. Didcot you babe
8. Mean Mr Moulsford
9. On Blewbury Hill
10. Culham feel the noize
I can imagine quite a few of our overseas members having a problem working out your second one!
It certainly helps to know that it’s pronounced “bister”. I nearly put that in at the time but thought better of it
Nottinghamshire
1) Its A Man’s, Mans, Mansfield World
2) Too Drunk To Hucknall
3) A Woman’s Worksop
4) Bulwell On Parade
5) Worksop Me Now
6) Let It Kirkby
7) Bridgford Over Troubled Water
8) Just Like Bunny
9) Newark, Newark
10) I Nottingham What I Am
Essex:
1. Harlow, Is It Me You’re Looking For
2. Tiptree Through the Tulips
3. Stay a Little Ongar
4. Billericay Don’t Lose That Number
5. The Southend Gave Birth to the Blues
6. You Rayleigh Got a Hold on Me
7. Sweet Basildon Blues
8. Harwich for Two
9. Brightlingsea Side of the Road
10. Johnny We Ardleigh Knew You
Why Does it Always Rayne on Me?
I want Your Essex
Crying in the Chappel
Blue JayWick
Love Me Tendring
Half my mind is going to be on Essex song puns all day now.
My other county, Cornwall:
1. Camborne to Be Wild
2. Little Redruth Rooster
3. Truro Love Ways
4. Wadebridge in the Water
5. It Must Be a Camelford
6. Hayle Hayle Rock ‘n’ Roll
7. Par, He’s Making Eyes at Me
8. Return to Zennor
9. Saltash Peanuts
10. Bodmin and Soul
2. Little Redruthster.
Norfolk
1. King’s Lynn of the Wild Frontier
2. Burnham Down The house
3. The Concrete and the Cley
4. Holt and Catch Fire
5. There, There My Dereham
6. If I Were a Norwich Man
7. Walsingham Matilda
8. (Sitting on the) Docking of the Bay
9. Wicken Work It Out
10. Flitcham a Ride
All performed by Mary Wells-next-the-Sea with an honorary mention to the Specials who started one of their biggest selling hits with the name of a local football team – Diss Town…
Surrey.
1. Everybody’s Dorking
2. Ewell Never Walk Alone
3. Shere I Go Again
4. Return to Send
5. (North or South) Holmwood Bound
6. Salfords the Border
7. Betchworth by Golly Wow
8. Woking My Way Back to You
9. It Merstham been Love
10. I’ve Just Godstone Get a Message to You.
For Esher Jolly Good Felbridge,
Onslow say all of us
The world of Broken HERTS:
1. Hitchin a Ride
2. Hatfields of Fire
3. Ware are they now?
4. Don’t You Worry ’bout a Tring
5. St. Stevenage
New Zealand
Last Train to Morrinsville
Wellington said the rocking chair
Auckland Stroke
The Funky Gisborne
Look wot you Dunedin
Rolf’s a Wanaka, OK!
Kamo feel the noise
Orewa not men?
Just can’t get to Bluff
Cool for Katikati
Suburban Sydney….
A-Wooloomolloolopbopaloobop-a-lop-bam-boom
Parsley, Sage, Rosebery and Thyme
Duke of Earlwood
StrawHaberfields Forever
Last Train to Gladesville
Back in Blackpool
Is it just me or is this a new Half Man Half Biscuit set list ?
it’s not where you’re at, it’s where you’re from…so, Devon
1) A New Life In A Newton Abbott
2) When I Paignton My Masterpiece
3) Ivy Ivy Ivybridge
4) Licensed To Ilfracombe
5)
OVER HASTY CLICK “SUBMIT” KLAXON
5) Long Tall Salcombe
6) Another Brixham In The Wall
7) Exeter Turn Turn!
8) Careful With That Axminster, Eugene
9) More More Mortonhampstead
10) Hatherley A World Away
Happy Torquay Torquay, happy talk…
County Durham:
Where the Chester-Le- Streets Have No Name
Stanley Road
Morden a Feeling
Barnard Castles Made of Sand
Darlington Nikki
(Langley) Park Life
And of course, the Pink Panther theme: Durham, Durham, DurhamDurhamDurham Durham Duur-haaaaammm. ..etc
More Durham:
The Crook Of Love.
Framwellgate Comes Alive
Consett Craving
Consett Craving is the winner, damn you. 🙂
Darlington Nikki …. even filthier than Prince’s version.
You missed out Talking Heads’ Love->Shildon On Fire.
Don’t Peterlee-ve Me This Way.
Easington Like Sunday Morning.
I’ll stop now. 😀
Seaham Everywhere.
*headdesk*
Morden a Felling, surely?
Birmingham
1. Sutton’s Gotten Hold of my Heart
2. Bournville on the Bayou
3. Lady in Rednal
4. Fool on the Hodge Hill
5. Strawberry Northfields
6. I’ve Been Loving You too Longbridge
7. The Edgbaston of Heaven
8. Everything’s Gone Gosta Green
9. King’s Norton of the Wild Frontier
10. Harborne in the USA
Bridge over Virginia Waters
Windsor Red Red Robin..(bit early for Christmas)
Lancashire/Greater Manchester
1. Wythenshawe Lineman
2. Lytham on a Prayer
3. Morecambe a Feeling
4. Stranger on the Helmshore
5. Chorley Brown
6. Padiham McGinty’s goat
7. Young Gifted and Blackburn
8. Parbold as Love
9. Give a Little Oswaldtwistle
10. Walk this Wray
And of course anything by Fleetwood Mac…
Shropshire
1. Wem! Rap
2. Prees prees me
3. Concrete and Clee
4. Shrewsbury Fields Forever
5. (I just) Died in Craven Arms tonight
6. Wenlock Holiday
7. Bridgnorth of Troubled Water
8. Il solEllesmere
9. Roll away the Stiperstones
10. Leominster’s Paradise
( I know, I know, it’s in Herefordshire)
Wooore! Huh! What is it good for?
Here we go for Hampshire
1. Here Comes The Dummer
2. Ringwood Of Fire
3. Eversley Fallen In Love
4. Grayshott Balls Of Fire
5. Ewshot The Sherif
6. Hedge End Girls
7. Everyday I Write The Hook
8. Neon River
9. A New Forest
10. Wonston Beyond
Number 8 should be Meon River. Bloody autocorrect.
Fen top ten:
I feel the Earith move
Ely’s coming
Warboys keep swinging
Bourn to be with you
It’s Over
Season of the Witchford
It’s a Manea, Manea, Manea World
Wicken Game
Papworth got a brand new bag
Cam on feel the noise
Ouse are you?
Sittin’ on the Beck Row (of the movies etc)
Elsewhere:
Newark state of mind
I Found My Thrill, In Wheatley Hill.
And, just up the road over the border, Boogie Sunderland.
Ah, the above was meant to be a reply to RubyBlue in County Durham
I have spent a surprising amount of time thinking about this. 😀
Ballad Of A Trimdon
Easington Like Sunday Morning
That Joke Isn’t Funny Spennymoor
1. Watford Kind Of Fool Am I?
2. For What It’s Rickmansworth
3. Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bushey
4. Stanmore! More! More!
5. Harrow, I Love You
6. Radlett It Be
7. It’s Grim Up Northwood
8. Mojo Pinner
9. Close To The Edgware
10. Borehamwood I Lie To You?
All within a roughly 6 mile radius.