Binge drinking is actually, well, quite fun. Don't fight the facts, every British twenty-something does it. I know it's disgusting and eroding the cultural legacy of this nation but it doesn't mean that every young'un who fancies a bevvy will kick the shit out of a homeless man or smash the windows of your elderly neighbours car. That's not down to binge drinking, those people are just cunts.
To fight this incongruous activity the Government have decided to spend yet more money on some fruitless and ineffective adverts. 'Drink Sensibly'. Oh, Ok then. That's that sorted. Come on guys!
I will settle on one thing regarding this issue. Those rather shocking ads involving people dying and smashing their bones into oblivion are a little effective. No one wants to fall of scaffolding while pretending to be Batman, you not only look like a bellend but I think it might hurt. Drink driving as well. They're a little graphic. Nose breaking trips home from the pub and the guilt of running over a cat sucks. But the same rules apply to all of these. IF YOU DO ANY OF THOSE THINGS YOU ARE AN IDIOT, so, although it's a little crude, you kind of get what you deserve because your self centered and fatuous actions are no ones fault but your own.
But there's one good thing to come out of these adverts. A recent campaign titled 'Binge Drinking Boy' or something along those lines was not only amusingly inaccurate at trying to emulate the actions of today's teens, but it featured a rather tantalisingly, distinctively British ditty by Eight Legs titled 'Those Grey Days'.
A precise British swagger that combines The Libertines with the cockney scent of The Rifles and the ruckus, ripped denim scour of The Paddingstons twinkles through the gritty cracks of 'Those Grey Days'. It's a very East London type of song, the sort of jingle that would have had the indie pups whacking on their Chelsea boots and leathers had it been released about four years ago.
Sleazy squatter indie-punk has never sounded so strangely patriotic and binge drinking has never looked so appealing.
Download Eight Legs - These Grey Days
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