Kid British: It Was This or Football

Kid British evoke the late 70s, right down to sampling Madness. Can it work in 2009?The year 1979 does not invite dewy nostalgia. It began with the Winter of Discontent - pause for grainy footage of a rat-infested rubbish dump in Leicester Square, and an angry man standing by a brazier - and ended with Margaret Thatcher lecturing the nation in a voice, as Clive James memorably put it, "like the book of Revelation read out over a railway station public address system by a headmistress of a certa...

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