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Seagulls Ska Play London Gig
24-Jan-2005
FOOTIE CHART ACTION FOR ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER & THE BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION SUPPORTERS CAMPAIGN FOR A NEW STADIUM
SEAGULLS SKA GIG OVER LONDON
SEAGULLS SKA
Plus sets from the band's component parts
TOO MANY CROOKS
Brighton ska legends
ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER'S BARNSTORMER
Punk/ska/early music with lyrics that mean something
THE FABULOUS FISH BROTHERS -
Unclassifiable music hall/punk hybrid
FRIDAY 4th FEBRUARY
OFFSIDE BAR
271 - 273 CITY ROAD
EC1V 4NJ
0207 253 3306
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TOM HARK (WE WANT FALMER!) - THE STORY OF A HIT!
'OUR GROUND'S TOO SMALL, THE COSTS TOO HIGH
WITHOUT FALMER, OUR CLUB WILL DIE'
Seven years since the Goldstone Ground was destroyed by uncaring moneymen, seven years of fans' campaigns - and still Brighton & Hove Albion doesn't have a proper home. So here's another chapter in the story of the Albion supporters' battle to save our club.....
A few weeks ago Attila the Stockbroker had the idea of reclaiming the Piranhas' national football ska hit 'Tom Hark' for his club Brighton, with new lyrics in support of their 5 year battle for a new stadium at Falmer, with the dual aim of raising money for the Albion's Alive & Kicking Fund and trying to take the song, and the Falmer For All Campaign, into the Top 20 in the month before the Public Enquiry restarts in February 2005.
The Piranhas were Brighton through and through, in the forefront of the local punk scene in the late Seventies and early Eighties. They had a hit in 1980 with 'Tom Hark' which has been adopted by many football fans across the country. You will often hear 'Tom Hark' blasting out from clubs' PA systems and chanted by fans.
Attila put together a great bunch of local Brighton musicians: Dave, Dan and McGhee from music hall/punk crossover outfit The Fabulous Fish Brothers, Marlon, Cooky, Alan and Tony from excellent local ska outfit Too Many Crooks and sax playing actor Ralph Brown from the Brighton Beach Boys (not to mention Withnail and I and Harry Potter). They went straight into the studio where the newly named band 'Seagulls Ska' recorded the new version of 'Tom Hark'.
Fatboy Slim's Skint Records, who are the main club sponsors of Brighton & Hove Albion, put the record out on the hastily formed Falmer For All label. It was released on Jan 3rd, AND GOT TO NUMBER 17 IN THE CHARTS! (and Number 1 in the indie charts).
The single was played in full on the Radio 1 Top 40 Chart Show, and there was major national press coverage in the Times, Guardian, Independent, Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sun (!) among others. National TV included a short appearance on Football Focus, with features on Radios 4 and 5 and loads of local and regional media coverage of all kinds.
The single sold out of its first pressing of 5,000 in two weeks with people buying it all over the country.
Attila the Stockbroker/John Baine, Poet in Residence and P.A. Announcer at Brighton & Hove Albion FC
THE TRACKS:
1. TOM HARK (We Want Falmer!) (Bopeape/Baine/Grover)
2. SUSSEX BY THE SEA (Instrumental Version) (Traditional)
3.SUSSEX BY THE SEA (Singalong Version) (Traditional)
4. ROLL UP FOR THE DONKEY DERBY.... (Baine)
SEAGULLS SKA are:
M.M.McGhee (no relation!) drums
David Beaken - bass
Dan Woods - guitar
Ralph Brown - solo sax
Marlon Johnson - trombone
Tony Fish - trumpet
Alan Perry - sax
Attila the Stockbroker - vocals, lyrics
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BRIGHTON AT No 10 IN THE MIDWEEK TOP 40 CHART!
05-Jan-2005
'Tom Hark (We Want Falmer)' by Seagulls Ska, released yesterday (Jan 3rd) is Number 10 in today's midweek Top 40 chart, outselling Kylie, Green Day and Lamarr and one place behind Blue!
It's a rewrite of the Piranhas' classic football hit recorded by a bunch of ska-loving Brighton fans, reclaiming the song for the Piranhas' home town with new lyrics supporting Brighton & Hove Albion's five year campaign for our new stadium at Falmer. All profits from the single will go to our cash-strapped club's Alive & Kicking Fund, set up by chairman Dick Knight and the board to help the club survive until the future - the stadium at Falmer - is secured.
The single is released on the Falmer For All label, manufactured and distributed by our main sponsors Skint Records. Our aim all along has been to hit the Top 40 in the Sunday chart on 9th January and gain extra publicity for our stadium campaign, one month before the public enquiry restarts... it looks like we've done it, and then some! But we are up against some stiff competition from nationally promoted artists with major label backers in the next few days and we're asking people to help us by buying a copy of the single either in person or on-line...
The single is available from all branches of HMV and Virgin, from many independent stores in the Brighton area including Rounder Records in Brighton Square and globally online via hmv.co.uk and amazon.co.uk.
SEAGULLS SKA will be playing the single and Albion players will be signing copies at HMV in Churchill Square, Brighton on Thursday 6 January at 4.30pm.
The Falmer For All Campaign has reclaimed The Piranhas' national football ska hit 'Tom Hark' for Brighton & Hove Albion with new lyrics in support of their stadium campaign. The aims are to raise money for the Albion's Alive & Kicking Fund and to attempt to take the Falmer For All Campaign into the Top 20 in the month before the Stadium Public Inquiry restarts!
With the backing of Club sponsors Skint Records, we present:
'Tom Hark (We Want Falmer!)' by SEAGULLS SKA
on Falmer For All Records Distributed by VITAL
Pre-Order NOW from hmv.co.uk & certain local retail outlets
Release Date Monday, January 3rd 2005
ALL PROFITS TO THE ALBION'S ALIVE & KICKING FUND
'The whole thing's daft,
We don't know why
We have to laugh
Or else we'll cry.
Our ground's too small,
The costs too high.
Without Falmer
Our club will die.'
Albion's Poet in Residence John Baine (aka Attila the Stockbroker), whose idea it was and who wrote the lyrics, produced and sung on the record, said:
'The Piranhas were Brighton through and through, in the forefront of the local punk scene in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Many of us have very fond memories of their gigs at legendary Brighton venues like the Vault and the Alhambra and it has always seemed quite ironic to me to hear their song blasting out from other clubs' PA systems and chanted by opposing fans.
So as part of the campaign for our new stadium, 'Seagulls Ska' proudly present our new version of 'Tom Hark' along with a seriously ska version of our beloved anthem 'Sussex By The Sea'.
This record is dedicated to all the fans who have battled so long, so hard and with such creativity and imagination to keep our club alive: to the Piranhas, especially Bob Grover, who inspired it and who has given us his blessing: to Dick Knight and the Albion Board, who pulled us back from the brink: and of course to the Albion players, whose dedication, commitment and self-belief against unbelievable odds have given a club with no ground and no money three promotions in four years. And to Skint Records for backing us. Thanks.'
Paul Samrah, Chair of the Falmer For All Campaign, said: 'This is yet another innovative and fun idea from fans, which underlines the huge imagination and creativity that is behind our relentless campaign. Our message though is so very serious, the plight of Sussex's only professional league Club is in John Prescott's hands'.
