Scottish rockers Primal Scream issued an incendiary statement attacking Britain’s Conservative Party this week after becoming enraged after learning that the Tories apparently play their hit Rocks at a party political conference.
“Primal Scream are totally disgusted that The Home Secretary Theresa May ended her speech at the Tory party conference with our song Rocks. How inappropriate. Didn't they research the political history of our band?” they said (in a statement posted to the Guardian: http://bit.ly/nFSg73 )
“Hasn't she listened to the words? Does she even know what getting your rocks off means? No. She is a Tory; how could she?”
“Primal Scream are totally opposed to the coalition government, Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Howard, Clegg etc.” they continued.
“They are legalised bullies passing new laws to ensure the wealthy stay wealthy, taking the side of big business while eradicating workers rights and continuing their attacks on young people, single parents and OAP's by slashing education and social security budgets, and persecuting the poor for being poor.”
We would like to distance ourselves from this sick association. The Tories are waging a war on the disenfranchised, They are the enemy.” (Primal Scream Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/screamofficial )
Disappointingly, it later emerged that the Tories didn’t actually play a Primal Scream song, instead selecting The Dandy Warhols’ 'Bohemian Like You'.
The row erupted some 14 years after D-Ream’s Peter Cunnah authorized his track ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ to be played at the Labour Party’s Conference soon after Tony Blair came to power. Speaking more recently, the Irish singer admitted he’d changed his views, declaring ‘we need to give (Tory leader) David Cameron a chance’.
“The way I measure these things is this; My Gran, Cassy Mc Dowel, was born in Derry in 1896 and she told me she went to school in her bare feet in the snow’, the told Irish news portal YourDerry.com.
“My nephew, who’s born nearly 100 years later, has a dad who is a committed work shy but still takes two holidays a year courtesy of the tax payer! If that ain’t progress and life ain’t better then what is?” he suggested. (YourDerry:http://bit.ly/pkJ9Wp )
His memories of his Gran, struck a chord with those of acid house veteran Terry Farley who chatted about his similarly grim childhood with Spoonfed this week.
“I grew up in Latimer Road in North Kensington in the 1960s – all very post war, with an air raid shelter in the back garden where my Nan kept her chickens,” he recalled.
“Outside khazi (toilet), tin bath in front of the fire on a Friday night – proper Oliver Twist turnout." (Spoonfed;http://bit.ly/oYVcPG )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDMJHYKrHNA (Tony Blair)
Jonty Skrufff: http://listn.to/JontySkrufff
