On June 18th 2010, my friends went to the pub to watch England play Algeria in the World Cup. I retreated to my feedback den and, in my ongoing Widdleman VS The World Cup tradition, over the course of the match I wrote, recorded and mixed this track:
England 0 0 Algeria by chris-walls
Some geeky points to note are the dual drum machines (one of them hand triggered - the out of time one!) and the feedback duet that I finished just moments before the neighbours knocked on the door...
Shortly thereafter, R-Man and I learned the song and incorporated it into the Great Men set. We dropped the initial World Cup name in favour of something a little more us (with some conceptual continuity of course - there's a present for the first person to spot it). You can hear our version on the Live in London EP and here's a video of us playing it in the Shazam live lounge on October 22nd 2010:
At some point, I'm not sure when, I started noodling about on an acoustic guitar and over time this solo acoustic version came together:
Spectators at an Acousticution by chris-walls
Since I'm not that great on acoustic, I tried playing a solo (with drum machine) version on electric as well:
Spectators at an Electricution by chris-walls
There's probably more mileage in this yet. If anyone out there fancies trying their own version we'd love to hear it and add it to the catalogue!
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