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What can we say about the year of the Monkey? The Hamptons on
"CD:UK" and "Top of the Pops"! Yes, it finally happened,
albeit via the rather quirky avenue of England 2004 football
song (see link on site)!
Anyway, The Hamptons' current line-up (Neil, Mark, Nick and
Dan) plus four others in the shape of Jimi, Lucy, "Mad
Fiddler" and Phil the banjo player emerged from the ether via
Barry BURBs' British Underground Rock Bands site
(mentioned frequently on this site) - onwards to number 2 in
the charts with a bullet (thwarted only by Mario Wynans, curse
him!).
 Also,
cracking good fun negotiating the legal documents with the
record company - naturally it all ended in the usual post-hit
single debacle. Funnily enough, pieces of paper bearing
pictures of the Queen have not descended upon us with
ferocious regularity, if at all! Takes us back some ten
years to the time we had to sue the record company on the
"Return to Malibu" release (diary note: must think about
suing again - what a chortle!)
And not forgetting the 2004 "not the Hamptons" album, being a
heavy metal piss take (you have to do at least one in your
life) in the shape of Krankschaft: "Der Vaterland", the name
being a combination of German industrial metal and the
implement that old gits use to start their old git cars (must
be us then)!
This black "what could be more black - answer: none more"
album includes the first, and probably last, Hamptons attempt
at rap (we were dared…).
The year was also punctuated by high school reunions, blasts
from the past, buying bits of Bulgaria(?) and, to cap it all,
a very merry 4-4-2 Christmas sing-a-long single!
And, in the spirit of Hamptons largesse, please feel free to
download not only the "Come on England" anthem (special
Hamptons pre-official release version), but also the Christmas
song and also a couple of Krankschaft ditties! |
