Jackdaw4 is delighted with FanHouse UK‘s endorsement of The Beautiful Game as its choice of World Cup theme. The Football Association may have decided against naming an official song this year, but what’s a World Cup without a tune?
You can download The Beautiful Game free:
If you enjoy The Beautiful Game you can download a free three-track sampler featuring one full song from each of Jackdaw4‘s two albums to date and a track from the forthcoming album, The Eternal Struggle For Justice:
Rosebud is a song partly inspired by the movie Citizen Kane, and partly inspired by Phil Wilding’s new novel “Cross Country Murder Song” which was out on Feb 25th and in my humble opinion, is simply brilliant.
If you don’t know Phil, he is to be spotted on the recent video interview footage from the 100 Club. Phil is the shy, retiring individual towards the middle and at the end of the video, very difficult to get him to talk, but eventually he managed a few reluctant words. He has a barely noticeable welsh accent and after some intense pressure he finally sheepishly agreed to plug his book.
Anyway, rather than hold this track back for some future album we decided to give it to you as soon as it was. It can be downloaded below.
Following the gig at the 100 Club we have had requests to make this song available again.
Written as the title music for the BBC2 comedy documentary “The Cup”, which took a wry look at the world of kids football and the pushy parents trying to live out their own dreams through the lives of their children, this full length song version of the title music veers away from the story behind the show and looks instead at the strange behaviour of the football fan.
Beautiful Game is available as a FREE download below.
Retrospectacles will be released on 25 January 2010. The double CD includes four tracks not available on either Gramophone Logic or Bipolar Diversions.
These songs are available as a FREE download – in a multitude of formats.
