It came to me this morning @binkybarnes. The song is Matty off the 1985 album Ordinary Man
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Denny the pig was replaced in recent years by a fella known as Stab the Rasher. He was accused of the same thing.
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I’ve listened to that album loads, and can’t remember a song called Matty on it.
I still think ride on is his best solo album.
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A great song.
We would have a fair few of them back home. About 15 years ago we were getting a delivery of some farm stuff at home. This was before Google maps or postcodes. The truck driver stops in the local shop/pub to get exact directions to our place. He eventually makes it into the yard at home where he exclaims that “I thought there was one in every village, however you lads have one in every couple of hundred yards”. Going by his descriptions he met the five biggest headers around the place who would’ve been known to all around.
A few of them great characters have since passed on on the last 5 years. We still have one youngish lad that will keep the place going for a good while yet please God.
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There’s one larger than life character that stands out. You’d hear his laugh a mile away. He played music and somehow managed to get on Live at 3. We all rushed home after school to see what he’d do. He mustn’t have been able to contain himself during rehearsals as they kept the camera away from him but you could still see he was gurning away in the background.
Story goes on one of their overseas tours he got himself a contact magazine. He wondered out loud what a TV was. They told him it meant she was foreign. There was commotion later on that night in the hotel and your man screaming down the hall. ‘Other band members go out and ask him what was wrong?’ ‘God lads, she had balls, she had balls lads’.
Black Johnny would be very proud.