CARNAVAL 2002

Dario G

Hold on a minute, this sounds suspiciously like a song I’ve heard sung at Kenilworth Road quite a lot this season. Must be a football song, but surely that’s a bit daft isn’t it? I mean, the football season’s just finished. There won’t be any more footy on the telly until August! Hang on, I’ll just make sure I haven’t missed anything.

Hell’s bells, there’s a World Cup on! When did they announce that? For heaven’s sake, you’d have thought that FIFA would’ve given us plenty of advance warning for something that big. Sorry, couldn’t resist it. The world, his wife and their dog are putting out World Cup singles at the moment (and I’ll let you guess which one the dog released). So, onto this one then. If you remember Carnaval De Paris – and thanks to Ford playing the song to death in their adverts you may have no option – then this is it, updated 2002 style. In English, it means the bassline still resembles Love Is In The Air, some crowd noises have been pasted over the top and it’s not as good as the original. That’s not to say it’s rubbish, it isn’t. In fact, it’s probably the most genuinely jolly single about at the moment. Can’t ask for more, really.

WORLD IN MOTION

EnglandNewOrder

If you bought it first time round, then buy it for the new track on the B-side. If you didn’t buy it, then buy it for John Don’t-Mention-Anfield-Rap Barnes’s starring role as the Master of Ceremonies. Three Lions may have the street cred, but World In Motion has John Barnes being extraordinarily game for a laugh and in the end, surely that’s what footy singles are all about. Buy it, it’s what Kenneth Wolstenholme would’ve wanted. Well, maybe.