IMHO... I think this song's about an IRA job (political, anti-UK government) by an over-enthused outfit who didn't have the gelignite sussed! ... The humour is great - act like actors; needs mummy; and the way the exasperated protagonist regards himself as a more authentic criminal over the "rabble" (yet the voice-over thinks he's also acting like an actor, E.G.!) ... The protagonist is arrested/questioned/imprisoned. When released, the money is obsolete.
The mentioned actors and shilling notes suggest the robbery took place 30/40s (also the band sound and the cinematic Oh-Oh's?). So I think the 'remember him' refers to Sir Oswald Mosley (1896-1980):
Google: By 1922, Mosley was ready to leave the Conservative Party over its Irish policy which had created the Black and Tans and supported the violent repression of Irish Nationalism. Mosley, of Irish descent himself, sat the next two years as an Independent, eventually joining Labour in 1924... - (If him/Mosley is correct, this brings even more humour to the song: In 1932 Mosley met Benito Mussolini in Italy and founded the British Union of Fascists; and in 1936 he married Diana Mitford in Goebbels's drawing room, with Adolf Hitler one of only six guests at the ceremony!) -
NOTS was an Ireland-only single. So I guess KB is showing her love of Ireland in both these songs... C'mon and blow it a kiss now...
IMHO... I think this song's about an IRA job (political, anti-UK government) by an over-enthused outfit who didn't have the gelignite sussed! ... The humour is great - act like actors; needs mummy; and the way the exasperated protagonist regards himself as a more authentic criminal over the "rabble" (yet the voice-over thinks he's also acting like an actor, E.G.!) ... The protagonist is arrested/questioned/imprisoned. When released, the money is obsolete. The mentioned actors and shilling notes suggest the robbery took place 30/40s (also the band sound and the cinematic Oh-Oh's?). So I think the 'remember him' refers to Sir Oswald Mosley (1896-1980): Google: By 1922, Mosley was ready to leave the Conservative Party over its Irish policy which had created the Black and Tans and supported the violent repression of Irish Nationalism. Mosley, of Irish descent himself, sat the next two years as an Independent, eventually joining Labour in 1924... - (If him/Mosley is correct, this brings even more humour to the song: In 1932 Mosley met Benito Mussolini in Italy and founded the British Union of Fascists; and in 1936 he married Diana Mitford in Goebbels's drawing room, with Adolf Hitler one of only six guests at the ceremony!) -
NOTS was an Ireland-only single. So I guess KB is showing her love of Ireland in both these songs... C'mon and blow it a kiss now...