World Cup theme this time.
Teenage Fanclub are one of my two favourite bands, and this one-off single was released at the height of their most creative period. Signed to the highly influential Creation Records (home to Oasis, Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain and numerous other influential bands), in their usual non-commercial way TFC decided to write an instrumental song for BBC Radio 5's 1998 World Cup programmes (France hosted in '98).
In the end I don't think the BBC took up their kind offer. So they released it as a limited edition, pressing only 3,000 copies on 7" vinyl. And I've got one. Basically I buy anything that the Fannies release as they've never released anything that's anything other than exceptional.
Having said that, I rarely play this although it's a catchy tune and to these ears it's easily recognisable as being them Anyway if nothing else at least it's topical...
Here's the song:
https://youtu.be/NWIN5DdUedQ
