No Rock And Roll Fun

MAKES THE ROBSON GREEN COMEBACK SEEM LIKE A NEW ALBUM FROM RIDE: Sainsburys and Friends Reunited are trying to engineer a return by the St Winifreds School Choir. The St Winfireds, of course, did the Christmas Number One There's No-one Quite Like Grandma, which sold purely on emotional blackmail alone (If yer granny didn't get given one for Christmas, it would have been the equivalent of sending her a small, gift-wrapped box saying 'My heart is dead towards you, old lady') and provided the mysterious backing on Brian and Michael's Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs in 1978. For some reason, this song - which took perhaps the greatest exponent of British visual folk art and reduced him to a comedy northerner who didn't paint properly - had the gangly toothed kids repeating "alley-alley-o" in the background, suggesting that the song had probably been written originally about Turner, and as such made some sense to refer to 'the big ship sailed on the...' Why do Sainsburys want to reopen these old wounds? I almost feel like ripping up my Nectar card in protest.