Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

Skinhead Girls

I wonder what the chances are that Girls Aloud will release “Control of the Knife” accompanied by a video featuring them all in braces and two-tone trousers? Probably not, really, all that high. It’s just as well I’m busy writing a paper on the welfare state, otherwise I might have accompanied this post with a photoshopped picture of Girls Aloud as Bad Manners. Instead, I’ll have to leave you with this YouTube clip:

Watch: Bad Manners performing Skinhead Girl live

That’s from 2006; Buster Bloodvessel’s lost a hell of a lot of weight, no?

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