News just in…the ghetto funk sound has finally made it into the pop charts. In Holland. Yesh my friendsh – fat beatsh, grinding shynths and buzzsaw bassh. It’sh all there. Plush Dutch vocalsh. Noysh! Time to shelebrate – shmoke and a pancake? Hey everyone – it’s De Kraaien (The Crows – I’m reliably informed) with Pechvogel (literally ‘bad luck bird’ ; idiomatically ‘unlucky person’ – I’m equally reliably informed) and their accompanying video. A Dutch ghetto funk pop video you say? Fit semi-naked birds? Check. Dodgy blond mullet? Almost certainly – though a baseball hat renders confirmation impossible. Shmoke? Tons of it – yellow too. Oh – and don’t forget to look for the bit at 2:53 when a blond possibly-mulleted, but certainly track-suited and blinged-up rapper raises a smoking flare to lips in what one trusts is an unwitting but nevertheless alarmingly Jimmy Saville-esque gesture. Now that is bad luck…