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The Wombles?!


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What is the point of having this 'band' play Glastonbury? I'm almost 32 and I barely remember them as a kid (I had a tape with the Wombling Song on it in the mid 80s and knew it was dated even then). The demographic for the festival is a lot younger than that these days and I'm pretty sure thousands of punters wouldnt have the first clue who or what this would be about.

Just put Rolf on...again! :P

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As a (young) child I had a wombles pillowcase and loved em - would be a laff

Although I always thought they were chavs

The wombles of Wimbledon common are we (a line from one of their songs) as a child I didn;t know there was a Wimbledon common, so put a comma in there and always thought the line was

the wombles of wimbledon,

Common are we

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they have loads of hits:

The Wombling Song/Wombles Everywhere

Remember You're A Womble/Bungo's Birthday

Banana Rock/The Womble Square Dance

Wombling Summer Party/Wimbledon Sunset

Minuetto Allegretto/Womble Burrow Boogie

Remember You're A Womble/Wellington Womble

Wombling Merry Christmas/Madame Cholet

Wombling White Tie And Tails/The Wombling Twist

Superwomble/The Orinico Kid

Let's Womble To The Party Tonight/Down At The Barber Shop

The Womble Shuffle/To Wimbledon With Love

Wellington Womble - Rainmaker/The Wombles - Wombling in the Rain

Remember You're A Womble/Remember You're A Womble (Dance Mix)

The Wombling Song/The Orinoco Kid

I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Every Day (with Roy Wood)

Anarchy In The UK

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they have loads of hits:

The Wombling Song/Wombles Everywhere

Remember You're A Womble/Bungo's Birthday

Banana Rock/The Womble Square Dance

Wombling Summer Party/Wimbledon Sunset

Minuetto Allegretto/Womble Burrow Boogie

Remember You're A Womble/Wellington Womble

Wombling Merry Christmas/Madame Cholet

Wombling White Tie And Tails/The Wombling Twist

Superwomble/The Orinico Kid

Let's Womble To The Party Tonight/Down At The Barber Shop

The Womble Shuffle/To Wimbledon With Love

Wellington Womble - Rainmaker/The Wombles - Wombling in the Rain

Remember You're A Womble/Remember You're A Womble (Dance Mix)

The Wombling Song/The Orinoco Kid

I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Every Day (with Roy Wood)

Anarchy In The UK

Presumably Bernard Cribbins would also make an appearance? Maybe this will be where Brian May appears on guitar and Robert plant on vocals! :P

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Ummmmm, I'm embarrassed to say that I seem to know rather more of those than could ever be considered in any way cool or something to be proud of embarrassed.gif:P

Bring on The Wombles I say ! Maybe we could have Pinky and Perky as support as well, they do a spanking cover of Yellow Submarine and shedloads of other totally awesome stuff :P I even have a copy of the album containing said awesome stuff on Ye Olde Vinyl somewhere ... from the days when Ye Olde Vinyl playing at 33rpm was relatively shiny and new and I wasn't allowed to get close to never mind actually use the record player I hasten to add :P

Oh nooooooooooo ! I don't believe it ! Yellow Submarine isn't available on good old youtube :P So you'll just have to check out the almost as awesome cover of Chubby Checker's "Let's Twist Again" instead:

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