Many thanks to Matt Richardson, who has managed to combine the nation's two great obsessions du jour - the World Cup and Obiter's ongoing search for lawyers with musical claims to fame. Mr Richardson, who recently joined film production company Pinewood Shepperton as legal counsel, also features as Vox (he's the singer, geddit?) in the band Lucky to be Alive. The band performs around the home counties but has taken on a special project with Germany 2006 in mind. It has teamed up with the award-winning Trinity School choir and Save the Children to record 'This Game is Our Game', a record whose proceeds go to the charity. It has a pleasingly old Empire approach to the forthcoming carnival of football, pointing out that it was England that gave the world the game in the first place, and now is a jolly fine time to take it back. It has already received good airplay and, if Stan Boardman can get a World Cup song into the charts, why not Vox and his mates? And wouldn't it be nice to see England fans singing along with a bunch of cute schoolkids? That would take the aggression levels right down.

Link: www.luckytobealive.com