"Back in the U.K." is a song by German group Scooter. It was released in November 1995 by Club Tools and Scorpio Music as the lead single from their second album, Our Happy Hardcore (1996). In the United Kingdom it became their biggest hit ever up to that point, entering at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1996. It would remain their highest charting single until the release of "The Logical Song" in 2002, which reached number two. The song was re-recorded as "Back in Ireland" for the Irish market.
Jennifer Nine from Melody Maker said, "A Union Jack-bedecked sleeve houses a hysterically nosebleed-speed Nintendo game theme, with added stadium-crowd roars and what sounds like miniature steel drums played by demented midgets."[1] Pan-European magazine Music & Media wrote, "These three Anglophile ravers from Hamburg have a taste for fast and loud techno. Their driving sound and catchy melodies nail down the listener like an out of control steamroller."[2]Music Week gave the song three out of five, adding, "A riff that sounds like "You Are My Sunshine" and rabble rousing singing gives this German four-piece's latest track some personality. Otherwise, it's the sort of frantic technopop that gets lapped up on the Continent but engenders a lukewarm response in the UK."[3]
