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By Diffusionuk
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There are terrible world cup songs....and then there's ours.

The people who brought you Moped have reinvented themselves (for a period of a couple of months) as Sweet FA.

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Our musical effort is a cover of an old Black Lace track (so obv, its dead high concept) done in a football stylee. Its a no brainer, 5 pints in down the pub job and with no lyrics to remember. Our USP is the animated video, the guy who is doing it has done stuff for MTV and E4 so its top knotch and hey, I've always wanted to be a cartoon character (thats me on the right).

The proper site isn't ready to roll yet so for the time being we've cobbled a myspace page with a clip of the track and some 'rushes' of the video.

http://www.myspace.com/iamanenglandfan

We hope to have a meeting with a 'fairly' big record co in the next week or two with a view to a proper release (they're waiting for the vid to be finished) however record companys are idiots so we'll have to see how it all goes.
By Jono
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Excellent. I guess you've been in touch with JK and Joel for their Unofficial England Anthems feature?
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By Dickie
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Have you done any tracks like this before? Just that 'Sweet F.A.' appear on a 'Jumpers for Goalposts' album i have on my PC.
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By Diffusionuk
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I thought I'd been dead clever coming up with Sweet FA, alas it seems like the world and his wife has aleady had the same idea for that pun. It was either Sweet FA or The Dribblers. Or Dirty Tackle.

Yes I've sent an email to JK & J however they dont exactly appear to be clued up...they played my Dads Army drum and bass remix last week "for the first time on Radio 1". Oh dear, out by a few years. :oops:

We're also pencilled in as pre match entertainment for Wigans last home game of the season...must chase that one up later this week.
By Jono
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Diffusionuk wrote:Yes I've sent an email to JK & J however they dont exactly appear to be clued up...they played my Dads Army drum and bass remix last week "for the first time on Radio 1". Oh dear, out by a few years. :oops:

Yeah, I noticed that, woops.

Looks like the video alone has potential to be something good :)
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By Diffusionuk
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the uncompressed footage when viewed on DVD is out of this world. Should get a rough cut of the full vid for the end of this week. Our animators website is here...

http://www.mushybees.com/

some character designs from people who are going to be in the vid are up on his site.
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By Sidders
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Diffusionuk wrote:I thought I'd been dead clever coming up with Sweet FA, alas it seems like the world and his wife has aleady had the same idea for that pun.

Not to mention Sweet Female Attitude who had a number 2 hit with 'Flowers' in 2000.
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By Jelly Babe
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Go east! sorryblobby just watching the telly and that ad is in my head lol well anyway we need a good song like the ant and dec one!
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By Quincy
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Diffusionuk wrote:We're also pencilled in as pre match entertainment for Wigans last home game of the season...must chase that one up later this week.


29th against portsmouth?

i look forward to your amazing rendition
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By Diffusionuk
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yup, they've been playing the track a lot on Rock FM and the latics asked us to do it. Our contact there has been on holiday for a bit though...will chase that up next week.

Got a snippet through yesterday of Madonna getting a football in the face...YUSSSS!!!!!!! Its a flash file....might post it later if anyone is interested?
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By kendra k
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last night i was running around oakland screaming songs by the sweet at the top of my lungs. "sweet f.a." was part of that list, as well as "fox on the run", "ac/dc", "wigwam bam", and of course, "little willy".
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By kendra k
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that song is great. i just listened to it!
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By Sidders
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Can't beat a bit of Blockbuster.
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By kendra k
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it's funny because pretty much all of my friends detest them- too poppy. most of my friends are lame.
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By Chris4
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that was brilliant, I heard that on Radio City 96.7 the other day

Top Class Mate!
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By Adam
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Mushybees! God, I love some of his stuff! Such a great website. He's on b3ta. Does some cracking stuff!

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