Nizlopi - JCB Song

Nizlopi (IPA: /nɪzlɔpi/) is a two-piece band: Luke Concannon (vocals, guitar, and bodhrán) and John Parker (double bass, human beatbox and backing vocals). They were based in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom (although both Luke and John have since moved to London) and were educated at Trinity Catholic Technology College. The band is named after a Hungarian girl that Luke had a crush on at school. "JCB Song" is Nizlopi's most successful song, reaching number one in the UK on its second release. The song was written about Luke's troubles with dyslexia at school and his escape to accompany his dad at work, and was released as a single in June 2005, reaching number 160 in the UK Singles Chart. The single was then re-released in the UK on 12 December 2005, reaching number one the following week on 18 December 2005, selling more than twice the number than the closest contender, Westlife. Dermot O'Leary gave the track extensive airplay on his BBC Radio 2 show. Some bookmakers put it in the running for the honour of Christmas number one but it was beaten by the winner of the second series of the UK version of The X Factor, Shayne Ward's debut single "That's My Goal". The video has received widespread airplay, mainly on music TV channel VH1. It is an animated video, made by Laith Bahrani (a.k.a. 'Monkeehub'), who also animated an unofficial video for an acoustic version of "Creep" by Radiohead. In 2007 Nizlopi received an Impala Platinum award recognising sales of over 500,000 copies of "JCB Song" across Europe.