500 Xfm listeners are due in Regents Park later today to add the chorus to the radio station's unofficial Euro 2004 anthem for the England football team - 'Born In England'. The listener bit of the project follows a weekend where members of the indie premier league - including Delays, Supergrass, The Libertines and Bernard Butler - went into the studio to add vocals to the track, penned by Xfm Breakfast Show listeners The Wheatleys.
With the chorus and video due for completion today, the final track will be released under the artist name of Twisted X on 7 Jun - a week after the official England song for Euro 2004, a DJ Spoony remix of The Farm's Alltogethernow.
With that in mind, The Farm's Peter Hooton called Xfm Breakfast Show host Christian O'Connell on Friday and said: "I think let the battle commence as far as I'm concerned. I hope you do very well with it, I just hope we do better with ours."
O'Connell replied: "I was going to say the same to you. On Monday we're inviting 500 listeners to come and sing on the chorus, so you're more than welcome to come along and sing on it too, it's the only way you'll see Number One."