About us
This entire effort was inspired by the delightful and ever popular BBC TV Programme Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing.
To be precise, it was inspired by Episode 2 in Series 3, the part when Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse talk to Feargal Sharkey, former lead singer of The Undertones (who are still touring by the way) on the banks of the River Lea.
In the unlikely event that anybody reading this doesn’t already know, Feargal Sharkey is a campaigner extraordinaire: as good a campaigner as his old band’s famous track Teenage Kicks was a smash hit. Teenage Kicks was famously considered by legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel to be his all-time favourite song. When he first played the song on his show on 25 September 1978, John Peel played it twice. And Peel specifically requested that sections of the lyrics of the song be engraved upon his tombstone. That’s how good the track is – it’s an absolute cracker – as powerful, purposeful and potent as 2 minutes 21 seconds of anything could be.
Go on, treat yourself, enjoy it now – here’s the official video – and better still go and buy it!
Like every other campaign organisation in the sickening sewage scandal space, we are in absolute awe and admiration at the spectacular campaign work of Feargal Sharkey; we are all very grateful for the tireless work that he does to punch home the desperate need for urgent reforms.
He has inspired us all.
To give you a feel for the passion, purposefulness and potency of his message, here’s Feargal at the 2022 Labour Party conference; and there’s lots more about his campaigning on the internet, including his official Twitter Feed; please do make sure you follow that and retweet away to share the message far and wide.
Meanwhile, back to Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse and Feargal Sharkey chatting away on the banks of the river Lea:
They were talking about the sewage scandal. As you’ll see if you watch it now, the conversation turns to the truly titanic track Teenage Kicks, and it was at that moment when the germ of an idea formed – the idea of writing an alternative version of the lyrics to Teenage Kicks, to turn it into compelling campaign collateral to help defeat the obscene conduct of the water companies.
The idea turned into a reality – the lyrics we rewritten by one of the founding volunteers in this collective endeavour – and having done so, we realised that anyone could do the same for lots of songs, of any genre.
And from that realisation the idea mushroomed into what we have today – this Singers Against Sewage website and all the campaign activity that’s planned around it, where anybody can submit the videos of relevant music they have performed, be that new lyrics to an existing track, or something completely new.
Furthermore, it’s important to explain that this effort is a true collective endeavour, with many organisations involved.
Here we will feature any of the sewage scandal campaign groups that want to be included. We will feature their logo, a link to their website and an overview of what they are and do (maximum 200 words).
There is no cost to be included – this is a collective endeavour.
The listing will be in alphabetical order.
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