Fighting Trousers

Fighting Trousers is a song by Professor Elemental and the third track on the 2009 album The Indifference Engine. It was also released as a single for the album. The song is a diss track targeting Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer.

Song Facts
''"Soon after releasing 'Cup of Brown Joy' I became aware of another rapper, going by the name of 'Mr B, Gentlemen (sic) Rhymer'. He also rapped in character and had started at a similar time to me in the same town. At a time, I was still very firmly involved with the Brighton Hip Hop scene and was encouraged by friends to battle Mr B in the time-honored tradition of rap music. I did a spot of research (finding out that he was in the 90's rap crew 'Collapsed Lung' who's (sic) song had once featured on an advert for coke (sic)) and thought it might be a lark to write a dis song, while at the same time aiming to parody the dis tunes in HipHop I've loved over the years (the chorus of 'Fighting Trousers' is a salute to the classic Nas track 'Ether'). Moog agreed to do the video and we sent it out into the world. To say that it blew up would be an understatement, plus it gave us both great publicity, raising the profile of our tiny musical genre. Of course, being the lovely person, he is, Jim (Mr B) got in touch and we went for a drink soon after it's (sic) release - settling our differences almost immediately. The guilt that I feel about making a significant portion of my career out of dissing someone I now consider a close friend is balanced out slightly by the amount it raised our profiles when the clash first hit the scene. We settled our differences once and for all on 'The Duel' on the 'Father of Invention' album - a track which I created specifically to balance the books. It doesn't stop people wanting to watch us battle it out on stage though, nearly a decade later."''

Single
Fighting Trousers was posted on Bandcamp as a single on 9 November 2010 with three additional tracks:

All compositions by Paul Alborough and Tom Caruana except as indicated


 * 1) "Fighting Trousers" - 3:03
 * 2) "Fighting Trousers" (Mr Simmonds remix) - 2:57
 * 3) "Fighting Trousers" (Instrumental) - 3:03
 * 4) "Fighting Trousers" (Acapella) - 2:52

Music Video
A video was directed by Moog and posted to YouTube on 8 November 2010. The video is themed around a boxing match as an extension of the beef between Professor Elemental and Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer.

Credits
Note: the video credits to vocal to Elemental though the track is listed among the Professor Elemental releases.

Trivia

 * Peter Duncan was a presenter of the children's programme Blue Peter who had a brief cameo in the 1980 film Flash Gordon. His cameo lasted only minutes until his character's painful demise.
 * The reference to George Formby comes from his propensity to play the ukulele during his performances