For those of you who don't know I am from the beautiful county of Essex, if you who don't know where that is; I am afraid we can no longer be friends.
Around the centre of the bottom of my wondrous home county is a quaint town called Billericay. This is where I have resided all my life. I would like to pretend that It is nice there... but it isn't... it's full of old people, but it does have a lovely Chinese Restaurant where I have spent many a birthday called Yau's by the train station, if you're ever near there pop in there and order the Peking Duck.
However I digress.
I was told by my land lady when I was in Barcelona that there was a song about my beloved home town called 'Billericay Dickie' and I was shocked that I have never heard of it. I have only just now listened to the track and I feel it demonstrates an accurate depiction of Billericay and Essex as a whole... be it an Essex of the late 70's but no matter!
Listen, this is what the culture of Essex sounds like:
6 comments:
haha. the song was very informative(and also seemed to have no end)but i'm glad i got to know little bit more about your city of billericay.
=D
I can't believe that you wrote about this. I know this song - and I know it - very well. My best friend always loved this song. And I always hated it, as did our other friends. So he would play it just to annoy us. :) I will remind him of this later on today and he will surely insist that he still loves the song.
I’ve just stumbled across your blog, and discovered you’re just round the corner from me (Brentwood) and I had no idea. How pleasant.
(And Jesus that song was hard to listen to.) x
That song sure is... something else. Wow.
So, what they say about people from Essex is true then ? ;-P
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