Could have done better

I've had a stiffy for Glasvegas for a while now and the Flowers And Football Tops track in particular. It's very rare that a song manages to capture a time and place and a snapshot of a given society so well. I reckon economic downturn is a boon to the snappily lyriced Anglo-Celtic pop song - see Squeeze's Up The Junction, Elvis Costello doing Oliver's Army, Bruce Springsteen's The River and Paul Kelly's timeless ... miraculous ... To Her Door for a start. YouTube them for more, I cannae be arsed linking it them all.

So when the good boys and girls from Dalmarnock announced they were releasing F+FT as a single, I was most happy. James Allan denies, and who are we to argue, that the song is based on Kriss Donald's murder. But the, you guessed it, flowers and football tops outside Donald's house became the defining image of that awful crime and by their existence, reminded you of every other Sellik/Rangers and Lilies/Roses combination you've seen on the news. Which is about once every ten days going by the current Scottish murder stats.

Shame then that the video for this great song is so unbelievably shite. I would have done it so much better. This is obvious.