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Related: About this forum'Never again': D:Ream ban Labour from using Things Can Only Get Better
D:Ream members regret association with Tony Blair and do not want song played at July general election
The pop group that sing Things Can Only Get Better which became an anthem for Labour at the 1997 general election victory will deny any request from Keir Starmer to use the track at this years election.
D:Reams founding members Peter Cunnah and Alan Mackenzie said they were dismayed to hear their song play through a loudspeaker as the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, called a 4 July general election on a wet afternoon in Downing Street.
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Speaking from his recording studio at home in Donegal, Cunnah said: The fact that its gone back to a political thing, I find disturbing. I was thinking can we get on with our lives? But now its come back.
You question, are we just some sort of protest song on a speaker down at the end of a street? Its like some very odd piece of gravity that you just cant escape.
The band members expressed regret at letting Tony Blair use the track for his general election victory celebrations in 1997, saying they were accused of having blood on their hands after the UK got involved with the war in Iraq.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/01/things-can-only-get-better-group-ban-labour-from-using-song
The pop group that sing Things Can Only Get Better which became an anthem for Labour at the 1997 general election victory will deny any request from Keir Starmer to use the track at this years election.
D:Reams founding members Peter Cunnah and Alan Mackenzie said they were dismayed to hear their song play through a loudspeaker as the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, called a 4 July general election on a wet afternoon in Downing Street.
...
Speaking from his recording studio at home in Donegal, Cunnah said: The fact that its gone back to a political thing, I find disturbing. I was thinking can we get on with our lives? But now its come back.
You question, are we just some sort of protest song on a speaker down at the end of a street? Its like some very odd piece of gravity that you just cant escape.
The band members expressed regret at letting Tony Blair use the track for his general election victory celebrations in 1997, saying they were accused of having blood on their hands after the UK got involved with the war in Iraq.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/01/things-can-only-get-better-group-ban-labour-from-using-song
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'Never again': D:Ream ban Labour from using Things Can Only Get Better (Original Post)
Emrys
Jun 2024
OP
Is that a different song from Howard Jones' song of the same name, from 1985?
House of Roberts
Jun 2024
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Celerity
(46,154 posts)1. I hate that song, lololol, nothing to do with politics
House of Roberts
(5,475 posts)2. Is that a different song from Howard Jones' song of the same name, from 1985?
Can't play music, people asleep here.
Emrys
(7,703 posts)3. Yes, it's a different song
But a few choruses of "WOAH WOAH WOAH" would fit both Labour and the Tories at the moment.