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:
Dave Cook - guitar:
Attila the Stockbroker - vocals:
Backing Vocals: The Falmer For All Community Choir - featuring Paul 'Supertramp' Samrah,
Lord & Lady Bracknell, The History Man, Bill and Jan Swallow and Too Many Crooks (Have I forgotten anyone?)
Influences
A lifelong love of Brighton & Hove Albion FC and a determination to see our club survive and get our new stadium. A heartfelt desire to see certain members of Lewes District Council disappear head first into a huge vat of decomposing chimpanzee smegma. And a predilection for taking the piss out of Crystal Palace.
Sounds Like
A rough and ready bunch of old Brighton punks and skinheads making a noise
This is the story of how a bunch of old Brighton punks and skinheads made a record about
a long delayed planning application and got in the UK Top 40! Read on....
" OUR GROUND'S TOO SMALL
THE COSTS TOO HIGH
WITHOUT FALMER
OUR CLUB WILL DIE"
In the mid 1990s, hated Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club chairman Bill Archer (who gained control of our club for 56 pounds 25 pence and had/has no recorded interest in football) sold our ground, the Goldstone Ground in Hove where we had played since 1902, to property developers. On April 26, 1997 (listen to the 'Goldstone Ghosts' poem for the full story) we were forced to leave the Goldstone and play our 'home' matches at Gillingham, 70 miles away!
We, the dedicated fans of BHAFC, forced out Archer and his sidekicks Bellotti and Stanley after a long, hard battle and, with a new board in charge, returned to Brighton to play our home games on a temporary basis at the Withdean Stadium, an old athletics track with a capacity of only 7000 (now increased to 9000) for a club with a potential fan base of at least three times that.
At the same time, we put in a planning application for a new ground on an old ploughed field next to a major trunk road and Brighton University - at Falmer. This was opposed by local residents who claim it's an area of outstanding natural beauty (it isn't, it's a ploughed field and some crumbling old university buildings) and by neighbouring Lewes Council (who are a load of joyless numpties with an inbuilt prejudice against football fans, and that's the polite version!) The planning battle has dragged on, and on, and on.......Latest news is that John Prescott finally said YES to the new stadium (hurrah!) and Lewes Council announced they were going for a judicial review (boo!) Updates will follow!
Anyway..here's the story of SEAGULLS SKA.......
In November 2004 I had the idea of reclaiming the Piranhas' national football ska hit 'Tom Hark' for Brighton with new lyrics in support of our 5 year battle for our new stadium. The dual aim was to raise money for our penniless club's Alive & Kicking Fund (a supporter initiative to keep the club going until we get a proper ground) and to try to get more publicity for our cause by taking the song, and the Falmer For All Campaign, into the Top 20 in the month before the Public
Enquiry restarted 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. I first saw them
at the legendary Vault in Brighton, used to watch them every Sunday at the Alhambra,
then as their popularity grew followed them up to London to the Marquee
and all the way to that legendary 1980 hit. It has always seemed quite ironic
to me to hear 'Tom Hark' blasting out from other clubs' PA systems and chanted
by opposing fans - especially ironic when other teams scored against us,
and played it to celebrate, as so many seem to these days!
So I rewrote Boring Bob Grover's lyrics to support our stadium bid ('For
years the planning process has dragged on and on/A paralytic snail wouldn't
take that long/We're stuck in an athletics track we really hate/Like
playing in Albania Division Eight!') and went to the Greys in Southover Street to
ask Bob if he wanted to be involved. He declined, but gave us his
blessing..
Then we gathered together a great bunch of local musicians: Dave, Dan and
McGhee from music hall/punk crossover outfit The Fabulous Fish Brothers
(they are also in my band Barnstormer) Marlon, Cooky, Alan and Tony from
excellent local ska outfit Too Many Crooks and sax playing actor Ralph from
the Brighton Beach Boys (not to mention Withnail and I and Harry Potter)
We went straight into the studio where the newly named 'Seagulls Ska'
recorded our new version of 'Tom Hark', along with a seriously ska version
of
our beloved anthem 'Sussex By The Sea', arranged by my wife Robina - and 'Roll Up For The Donkey Derby',
the
alternative 1990 Cup Final song I wrote for our rivals Crystal Palace(!!!!!!!)
Skint Records, our main club sponsors, put the record out on the hastily
formed Falmer For All label and released it on Jan 3rd 2005, about 6 weeks after
the idea had been first conceived, following a long pre-sale campaign
orchestrated on the excellent Albion forum North Stand Chat.
AND WE 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: we had
major
national press coverage in the Times, Guardian, Independent, Mirror, Sunday
Mirror and Sun (!) among others, national TV including a short appearance
on
Football Focus, features on Radios 4 and 5 and loads of local and regional
media coverage of all kinds. It sold out of its first pressing of
5,000 in two weeks, with people buying it all over the country: to date it
has sold around 6,500 copies. Something which started as an idle thought
in
the Brighton PA box at a home match had succeeded beyond our wildest
dreams, bringing the Albion's plight to a truly national audience - and not
just a football one either.
The 'band' did a few gigs at the time of the release, most notably at the Engine Rooms in Brighton on the day the chart was broadcast, with Albion manager Mark McGhee joining us to celebrate! We won't be playing again until our new stadium is built. Because - and mark our words, Lewes Council - WE WILL WIN!
But Seagulls Ska's component parts are all very active. Check out our websites:
www.thefishbrothers.co.uk
www.toomanycrooks.co.uk
www.attilathestockbroker.com
Cheers everyone, and thanks for the support we've received from football fans literally all around the world!
Attila the Stockbroker. P.A. announcer and Poet in Residence at the Albion (and fan since 1964)
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