Back in 2003 (you remember 2003, right? David Sneddon, t.A.T.u and Fatman Scoop were all massive) The Winter Olympics took refuge in Cologne in Germany. The band had such a good time (getting played in local clubs, losing at electronic darts to the local big friendly truckers, predominantly drinking beer and eating a lot of meat) that they wrote a song about it.

The phrase "Kolle, alaaf you!" from the song's chorus was the closing line from a speech given by the visiting John F Kennedy in June 1963. It wasn't quite German, but the 350,000 strong Cologne crowd he drew took the compliment to their hearts. Too right, as well, it's a great place.

When they returned to the UK the band decamped to a studio in the middle of Wales (where My Bloody Valentine recorded Isn't Anything) and attempted to put the song down on tape with the bass player out of Hawkwind. A week later they returned with ten minutes of barely listenable man disco. Thoroughly embarrassed, the band disowned the song for the next five years until their new producer Paul Hollingsworth talked them into jamming out a version beneath the Bedford Park pub in an attempt to, "get a level". He got a little more than he bargained for as he and the band birthed a bold new blueprint for a brave new European...