Up the Junction (song) Up the Junction (song) "Up the Junction" was the third single released from Squeeze's second album, "Cool for Cats", sung by Glenn Tilbrook. It is one of the band's most popular and well-remembered songs (especially in the UK), and reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, the same position as its predecessor, "Cool for Cats" . "Up the Junction" is also the name of a collection of short stories by Nell Dunn, first published in 1963. Lyricist Chris Difford said that the title phrase was lifted from the 1965 TV play version of the work, directed by Ken Loach,
Up the Junction (The Wednesday Play) UK. Tony Garnett, whose work on the project was more extensive than his formal brief as story editor, commented in 2013 about the "very, very personal" nature of this play. When Garnett was a child, his mother had died following a back-street abortion, and his father committed suicide less than a month later. A film version based on Dunn's original short stories was released in 1968. In 2011, the television play was included in the 6 DVD box set, "Ken Loach at the BBC". Up the Junction (The Wednesday Play) Up the Junction is an episode of the BBC anthology