Swire is Vivienne Westwood's maiden name
She grew up in the village of Tintwistle

I gave the title to Craig Manga as I have a lot of respect for his lyric writing. I was in awe of what he came up with here. This is what Craig has to say:

"It’s remarkable how two people who have never met know each other so well, second-guessing and pre-empting each other’s thought to a laughable degree. I guess it’s the nature of online collaboration. I feel I know John like a brother, and have known him for ages, but I don’t, and I haven’t. It’s only been months but we have sparked off such creativity in that time, wrote many things together, remixed the other’s work, goddamn, we’ve even formed two bands together (ManJunk [ha, giddy?] and FUNT). We share the same timezone, that’s all. But we instinctively know each other.

For two complete control freaks, we work together well, respecting the other’s creative ego. Such compatibility is rare.
 It helps that we love each other’s work and got together as fanboys of Microchip Junky and Manga Brothers respectively.
 John especially admired my turn of phrase in a lyric or two, so asked - ever so nicely (how could I refuse such a nice talented guy?) - if I would write a lyric to a title he had come up with.

The brilliantly titled ‘Swire of Tintwhistle’, about punk fashion Dame, Vivienne Westwood. I said yes without hesitation.
 Then I regretted it, what did I - of all people - know of fashion? It was the first song I actually had to do research on. John wanted a strange kind of poetry to be spoken not sung, something I had never done before.

Phrases, fragments formed (“pink SEX blinks”, “Let them eat glass cakes”, “skirts ruffled rough turmoil of his hair”), twists of sentences spiralled out of control. It didn’t rhyme, it didn’t scan. It was beautiful formless gobbledegook. John drew it out of me, pushed me. It worked, it had imagery and a visual sense of sexual playfulness.

My influences? Not rock n roll poets (maybe Patti Smith is there), but E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, heroes of ‘my bondaged youth’. What other songs speak of the naked female genitalia and the ghosts of Sid Vicious and Malcolm Maclaren in the same breath? I performed it, with relish and gusto. And became Mark E Smith for I day."

Check out Craig's work here:
mangabros.bandcamp.com/music