Macc Lads

Might only be one for the Brits this, anyone else remember them? They got brought up on another forum I go on this morning so I had to go and listen to it all again.

Anyone else who used to/still does listen to them?

Oh yes.

Beer and chips and sex and gravy!!!

Didn’t they do a song roughly on the lines of

“In Bueno Aires
Lived a bunch of Fairies”

Other lines included

“Ay ay ay, the lads are on their way, with their bayonets and tommy guns and bellies full of boddingtons.”

“They’ll ask for the recipe for chips and gravy, once they’ve the English navy”

Quality song, and I’ve actually got the tape in my collection somewhere.

I take it this was why you brought it up. :smiley:

They come from my home area.

Macclesfield (hence macc lads) is just down the road from where I live.

One of their songs was ‘Buenos Aries’, but I brought it up because I’ve only ever heard squaddies listen to it and there’s a fair few on here

I remember back in my home town EVERYBODY listened to it!!!

My favourite song is the one above. Haven’t heard it in ages.

But there was also one with “You can F*CK, you can cook you can do the washing up!!!”

or

Sweaty Betty.

I’ll have to find the tape and have a listen.

Sarge :wink: , I just deleted a double post here. Hope you don’t mind.

Niet problemski dani.

By the way, these are real songs, Buenos Aries was realeased not long after the Falklands. Not trying to kick off another mass debate about 82.

Also Dire Straits and “Brother in Arms” was about the Falklands as was The levellers “Another mans cause”.

Music lesson over.

Don’t make mistakes mate! :wink: I am Romanian and not Russian.
It is like I tell you Muchas gracias Sarge! :wink:

Ey up, I’ll bet she comes from Macclesfield, Ey up, I’ll bet she comes from Macc!

Is Gordon’s Takeaway still going?

yeah!,i find this group a shit,just listen the buenos aires lyrics.
you fat greasy moustached black haireds :stuck_out_tongue: ,me proud kraut,me proud of spic country.

tell me they are british :roll:

No, it’s closed down apparently.

Complete history of the Macc Lads here

The good thing about the Macc lads is that they are always topical and in many ways correct.

There was a load of bloody fairies in Buenos bloody Aires
With greasy hair and sweaty bums, they’d never heard of Boddington’s
A different culture and a different race, - no chippies in the fucking place,
You can keep that poof Ardiles, we’re going to have your Malvinas
Eh Up!

They got our backs up without a doubt, time to sort those Argies out
Costa Mendez lives in fear of real men who can hold their beer
Eh! Eh! Eh! The lads are on their way,
With bayonets and tommy guns and bellies full of Boddington’s
Eh Up!

Fray Bentos and cheap red wine is all they eat in the Argentine
But after a scrap with the English Navy, they’ll ask for the recipe for chips ‘n’ gravy

©1982 The Macc Lads

N.B.- Costa Mendez was the Argy Foreign Secretary in 1982.
‘Las Islas Malvinas’ was what the Argies had the temerity to call the Falkland Islands.
N.B.- Ossie Ardiles was a minuscule Argy footballer who played for Spurs.
He was stuck in Argentina until the war was over.
They found him when they cut the grass.

As can be seen they’ve pretty much covered all points.

I beleive that this picture shows them asking for the recipe for chips ‘n’ gravy. As you can see the Royal Navy is explaining the recipe, and the Argies are about to scribble it down.