A firm riposte to those who lament the death of socially conscious contemporary music, Jstar & Pilot have released the ‘Swine flu skank‘. Musically, along the same UK funky lines as K.I.G.’s top 10 hit ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes‘ the swine flu skank comes with its own dance demonstrating how one might “catch it, bin it, kill it”. This refrain is borrowed from the successful NHS poster campaign. Its message is clear, although whether viruses are alive in the first place to be killed is a matter for some debate. They probably aren’t, and being caught in a tissue will not disrupt its microscopic structure in any meaningful way. Nevertheless, it’s always nice to have popular music promoting healthy behaviour.

Spitting a few bars relating to the pandemic, Dr Clarke is genuinely medically qualified, unlike such wannabes as Dr Dre and Dr Octagon. Disappointingly, he is not the chap running the revision courses. On his H1N1 rap he gives useful basic advise such as advising washing hands. H1N1 freestyle is more dedicated to the epidemiology. As he highlights on his tracks, his main lyrical theses are from official advise from the flu site set up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Log on to www.flu.gov, and together we can stop the H1N1.