D:Ream's Peter Cunnah and Al Mackenzie were working on new music when Things Can Only Get Better was blared out as Rishi Sunak announced the general election. Their former bandmate, physicist Brian Cox, was among the first people to text them - and now they have reunited on stage.
Professor Brian Cox has joined his former D:Ream bandmates on stage at Glastonbury to perform the track that became a defining political anthem of the 1990s - and seemingly again this year after its re-emergence ahead of the general election. The TV physicist received rapturous applause from the crowd at the festival's Glade Stage as he was brought on by frontman Peter Cunnah, providing his musical expertise on keyboards once again for sleeper hit Things Can Only Get Better.
'I remember it so vividly, 1997, because we did Top Of The Pops and it'd gone back into the charts on election day. Because Top Of The Pops was going to be broadcast after the polls had closed, we were allowed to do it.' So how do they feel about it being brought back ahead of another general election almost 30 years later, with Labour ahead of the Conservatives in the polls. Speaking about Mr Sunak's speech, Cunnah said: 'The first time I saw it on TV, I did laugh.
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