Neighbourhood (song)

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"Neighbourhood"

Single by Space
from the album Spiders
Released	March 25, 1996 October 21, 1996 (re-issue)
Format	CD, 12"
Recorded	1995-1996
Genre	Rock
Length	3:28
Label	Gut Records
Producer(s)	Stephen Lironi
Chart positions
#56 (UK) #11 (UK - re-issue)
Space singles chronology
"Money / Kill Me" (1995)	"Neighbourhood" (1996)	"Female of the Species" (1996)
Alternate cover

Re-issue (CD)
Alternative cover

Re-issue (Remix CD)

For other works by this name, see Neighbourhood (disambiguation).

"Neighbourhood" is a song by Space, written by band members Tommy Scott and Franny Griffiths, and released as the second single (though the band prefer it to be the first, as they consider "Money"/"Kill Me" to be a "test" release) from their debut album Spiders, and their third single altogether. It was originally released on March 25, 1996 and peaked at #56 in the UK charts, but it later re-released on October 21 that year, this time only managing #11. Though it is overshadowed by its' more successful follow-up "Female of the Species", "Neighbourhood" remains a strong composition in their catalogue.

Apparently more autobiographical than their other material, "Neighbourhood" depicts a variety of somewhat warped personalities living in a rather atypical English neighbourhood, including a man who thinks he's Saddam Hussein, Mr Miller, a "local vicar and a serial killer", a 'big butch queen' whos is "bigger than Tyson and twice as mean", and others.

In September 2004, "Neighbourhood" was used by the BBC in an ident for their short-lived series Fat Nation. The line "Who lives in a house like this?" is a reference to Through the Keyhole, another BBC programme.