The BPA will rule. Or be terrible.

THE BRIGHTON PORT AUTHORITY

In September 2007 a Brighton mystery was finally solved. While rumours had long been rife, few were sure if the shadowy musical project known as The Brighton Port Authority really existed. Proof of their recorded output was only confirmed when a cardboard box of dusty reel-to-reel tapes was found during the development of a Brighton dockside warehouse. The find was brought to the attention of East Sussex music lecturer Dr Randolph Seal who immediately hoped these were the famed lost BPA tapes. One listen told him that they were.

“I’ve spent the last ten years trying to track down this elusive outfit,” he explains, “and I knew the BPA studio was supposedly down at the docks but even insiders have proven shaky on the details. To me this find is akin to locating Sly Stone’s long lost Panther Funk sessions with the MC5 - it’s a goldmine.”
The Brighton Port Authority were an outfit who built a huge word-of-mouth reputation on England’s south coast from the early 1970s onwards before petering out in the mid-’90s. From what can be easily pieced together, they were a loose-limbed jamming unit, originally known as the Brighton Phonographic Association. At its core were local musicians Norman Cook and Simon Thornton who gathered various singers and session men around them, built the rather ramshackle BPA studio, and would occasionally hold multi-day warehouse parties from which their semi-legendary reputation stems.
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This is the best low-budget music video ever and has sparked new inspiration for the Synthesis low-budget film series that, for now, we’re calling Manchild Drink Beer… kind of like Aqua Teen Hunger Force. WTF is up with that? No matter, things are about to get a whole lot more nekkid around here. I dunno if our Videomatt can handle editing something like this…

Yup, that’s Dizzee Rascal you hear, along with David Byrne. Brighton Port Authority is the British band better known as BPA. And I heard Fatboy Slim directed this. Now you know.