With no songwriting as powerful as Great DJ or That's Not My Name to hold you, attention gets drawn to their flaws, not least White's agonizing habit of dropping into Estuary-accented gorblimey.
He liked the English crews, it seemed, but more importantly he benefited from the physical distance between himself and his paymasters, the mental distance between himself and a set full of gorblimey limeys calling him "guv'nor".
"Our PM's a dustman, 'E wears a dustman's 'at, 'E wears gorblimey trousers.
You can hear their echoes in Franz Ferdinand and British Sea Power, while the Libertines appear to have been formed specifically to appeal to Morrissey: songs about a lost Albion and an on-stage penchant for gorblimey shirts-off male-bonding that frequently leaves them looking less like a rock band than something invented by Joe Orton.
There they all are: the MySpace-promoted singer-songwriters, the bands big on choppy, ska-influenced guitars and the kind of gorblimey accents you suspect only an expensive education can buy.
"They messed with my brain…" complains Costner's damaged-goods criminal in the opening voiceover, before setting off on a face-punching tour of Merrie London, replete with gorblimey cabbies, disposable coppers, and people who say "Oi, that's bang out of order!" while Kevin kicks their heads in.
Phil Daniels compered from an armchair, and his gorblimey shtick found an echo in the Blockheads' Chaz Jankel and Derek Hussey's revisit of Billericay Dickie.
It's at its least engaging when trying to summon up the kind of gorblimey ramalama that powered their debut album: Glasgow Coma Scale Blues and Fury of Chonburi hurtle in one ear and out of the other without leaving much impression, as if they were so knackered by the effort of trying to sound like their younger selves that they forgot to actually write a song.
As the sun blazed down on Sunday afternoon, Chas and Dave's gorblimey blues had the entire field skanking to Gertcha and Snooker Loopy.
The list covers a lot of musical bases, from doughty Britpop survivor (former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes) to Grammy-winning electronica (Aphex Twin), and old-fashioned gorblimey punk rock (Slaves).
Notwithstanding the existence of Sham 69's That's Life – with its gorblimey dialogue between tracks and guest appearance from Miss Brahms off Are You Being Served?
