The song Amy is referring to is Alex Glasgow's working-class anthem ‘As Soon as this Pub Closes’. Alex Glasgow was a northern working-class singer-songwriter who became famous for developing his own style of Geordie folk, writing songs in support of socialism and trade unions (Plater, 2001). The satirical song is a first-person account of someone in a pub explaining how they will ‘create a fine democracy that's truly working-class’, ‘shoot the aristocracy and confiscate their brass’, ‘fight the nasty racialists and the colour bar’ and ‘all fascist dictatorships and every commissar’ as soon as the pub closes for the evening. The song's chorus announces, in a thick Geordie accent: ‘as soon as this pub closes, the revolution starts’.

In the recorded version of the song, Glasgow slurs his speech towards the end of the song, implying that the person singing is getting progressively drunker. The song's final chorus is changed from ‘as soon as this pub closes, the revolution starts’ to ‘as soon as this pub closes … I think I’m going to be sick’. Gesturing towards a delayed time for the revolution – I was going to ‘do’ the revolution but then I had too much to drink – the song has been read as a critique of working-class drinking and pub culture, and of the pub in general as a site for ‘revolution’ (Green Leaf, 2015). But Amy does not see it this way. I ask her whether she agrees with this reading and whether she thinks drinking in the pub takes time away from the revolution. ‘I don't think so’, she replies. ‘Wait, let me read you the lyrics’. She opens a tab on her computer, searches for the lyrics, and reads the song's opening line: ‘I could have done it yesterday if I hadn't had a cold, but since I’ve put this pint away, I’ve never felt so bold’. ‘See?