Northampton - The story behind the song

[@DoLeaveItOutMate]

I have watched this video four times in a row and I still totally lose my shit every time. How she managed to sing this with a straight face will remain one of pop's great mysteries.

[@MNKYTECH]

I'm trapped in a hotel in Northampton right now, and this video is helping make sense of it all

[@simonswebsite]

The year was 1980. I discovered this gem when I was searching for archive footage about Northampton to include in a documentary I made last year about the town. I'm hoping to get the documentary online soon once some problems have been sorted. :)

[@biglog63]

Linda Jardim...a very talented singer! She was one of the backing singers on 'Video killed the radio star' by 'Buggles' back in the day. She gave this song its heart/soul/class. No longer with us, sadly...she passed away in 2015.

[@grahamgordon1685]

Great song worthy of Northampton

[@LazarouMonkeyTerror]

Oh man, this is f*cking sublime! I feel so proud of my home town, no wonder my parents from the planet Thraxxon moved their so long ago.....

[@bungalow-build3020]

What a gem, thank you for taking the trouble to upload.

[@louisaradice4439]

Apparently Northamptonshire County Council are skint - maybe they should release a remix of this?! Seriously, do you think Fatboy Slim or Trevor Horn might be interested?

[@kisbie]

I assume you know that the singer, Linda Jardim, was in the Buggles alongside Horn around that time. I really wish he'd been involved as well. Definite top 10 smash.

[@minixtvbox]

Bankrupt Tory scum Northampton

[@Skipissatan]

this is absolutely awesome, I wish my town had a song this good!

[@ian_b]

My mum worked at the Development Corporation and we had a copy of this single. Think my sister's still got it :)

[@jjnorth2359]

Come and see '60 Miles By Road or Rail' at the Royal & Derngate. 22nd - 25th sep 2021

[@Ketumak]

John Peel played it on his BBC radio show a few times, in amongst all the alternative and indie bands he usually played

[@EgoShredder]

It sounded like it could have been a British Gas advert from that era. I like it though!

[@bmxsmurf88]

LOL wow, did it make it into the charts? i do like northampton, being my hometown, but sooo glad got out of it when went to uni!

[@pavelpolonskij6931]

Which uni did you go to?

[@ezbrown]

I especially love that the image shown of men in a factory under the lines about 'energy' looks to me an awful lot like the Carlsberg factory! Oh, how I miss the place...

[@ssophieee]

Theres another version of this in the Shoe Museum. I could recite the words to it. I want this song now.

[@Squimple]

A guy in a suit says "punk's all the rage at the moment"...those were the days. Such a Classic song too.

[@kisbie]

I need that sleeve design on a shirt. Very Great Gatsby-ish. Just a shame they didn't wait another few years and then they could've included the lift tower on the skyline.

[@jmalmsten]

I do not know exactly why. But I just love the slight jump in the image at each edit point. I'm guessing this was shot and cut on 16 mm before being broadcast? I can almost hear the splice as it moves through the telecine :)

[@sniff001]

This is hilarious! Especially when I come from the county! Is there anywhere where you can buy this or download it?

[@Navtheimpaler]

This explains every thing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thestjohnlady1]

Anyone know where I can download both her full songs about Northampton? I have tried iTunes ~ and of course they have nothing.

[@thestjohnlady1]

Gotta love this haven't you really?

[@Overseerofdoom]

@DarylJCheetham no tah i live in Derby now. loving it :D

[@coolguy9996]

yeah, i did. You're right. we should make it a number 1

[@BackToEarth]

Holy Crap! Boots has been there for ages

[@irkibby]

From 2:56 onwards, it seems that someone has placed some pornographic material next to the recording camera, and Basil Bean is attempting to look at it without making it noticable

[@stuartfarmer1195]

I like it!

[@stevenrandall5113]

Ah so it was aliens that made Northampton people the way they are today and here was me thinking it was heroine 🤔

[@ambrielx]

I wonder if the man from the NDC was the inspiration for Rowan Atkinson's "Mr Bean" ?

[@1981chrismartin]

'Free from traffic jams'??!! Try it now!

[@bjoe385]

1981chrismartin especially in Kingsthorpe, your speed is measured in meters per hour instead of miles.

[@gv-k4f7g5b9]

@@bjoe385 Not on Boughton Green Road, people driving down that road way above 30mph.

[@bjoe385]

@@gv-k4f7g5b9 Yep, if they’re not doing 1 mph they’re doing 100 mph.

[@tomwalkermusic]

Northampton residents now have no right to take the mickey out of Milton Keynes' advertising campaigns...

[@terryplatt8115]

And just a few miles south of Northampton... kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6qsnaZtaq6bl7s Yes, this is Ronnie Bond, former drummer with The Troggs, doing a promo for Milton Keynes! Only in the UK - what a country!

[@TheSoundDepo]

Northampton? Energy? hmm..... I'm not so sure.

[@Documentally]

Man this is weird.. I have just filmed a guy from Northampton who says he has an alien implant.. Crazy tune.. :)

[@JamieBykovBrett]

Surprised that Matt Smith is from Northampton? Northampton full of aliens, you walk down through town and it all makes sense.

[@dandyhands]

"Science fiction themes ARE big business right now"! chortle chortle!

[@gingermatty]

This is fantastic, i love it. hahahah

[@radiodarkhorse]

I think Uttoxeter should have this song now.

[@SirJekyllAppliance]

must've been .79 or very early 80s

[@joeSD95]

8/10 cats like everyone else lol

[@silenthillfan7888]

northampton people arent that weird I come from there an most are normal

[@toppertruthio]

+Emma church define normal

[@gv-k4f7g5b9]

@@toppertruthio Conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.

[@reyrFuaP]

Fucking awesome

[@BenCurrington]

Norcarlsberg, Norcarlsberg, Norcarlsberg - middle of CARLSBERG!

[@Overseerofdoom]

ahh 8/10 cats... thankyou for giving me a new reason to hate living in northampton lol

[@cydonianlady]

Yep. Northampton is defintely full of flipping aliens.

[@Toomra]

So bloody funny!!

[@2001drdre]

8/10

[@TheSoundDepo]

Exactly how i got here lol!

[@jonstanley9985]

I live in shit holehampton

[@irkibby]

fucking pissed myself.

[@stuartg234]

haha, i love it

[@spiderxjz]

Oh, well, that was interesting...

[@HotSpace2007DaveB]

Should of been a # 1 hit lol

[@solitaire9]

lmao, now i know why northampton people are so strange, they're aliens!

[@laurence1211]

LOL, classic...

[@lalalameowmeow]

LMAO also from 8 out of ten cats,

[@AlexTheMagix]

Seriously, what the fuck? :P

[@kalem1988]

I cant believe that iv never hearsd that single, lmao, i live there >.< still, the song is... well.. shit

[@marsmanic]

8 out of 10 cats :L

[@poacher2506]

it is a large steaming pile of crap,and there was excesive use of the carlsberg brewery.WHY.?

[@gv-k4f7g5b9]

"Steaming pile of crap"............. what are you comparing it to?

[@2506poacher]

@@gv-k4f7g5b9 it doesn't matter what you compare it to , it would still be a steaming pile of crap by comparison. It was unsuccessful as a song or as a sales jingle for northampton. Why do you ask ?

[@gv-k4f7g5b9]

@@2506poacher Im not sure i agree. Your statement "it doesn't matter what you compare it to , it would still be a steaming pile of crap by comparison".......... well if you compared it to Luton i would disagree with you as Luton really is a pile of crap......... whoever if you compared Northampton to say the Cotswolds i would agree with you.

[@andybennett1133]

​@@gv-k4f7g5b9hello Mr Logic ...😂😂😂

[@andybennett1133]

N-R-G was at eclipse in Coventry not Northampton.....😂😂😂