The band behind New Labour’s 1997 victory song, D:Ream, has exclusively told LBC it would snub a request from Sir Keir Starmer if they were asked for permission to use another track.
The band’s founding members, Alan Mackenzie and Peter Cunnah, who are now working on their fifth album, said they were dismayed when they heard ‘Things Could Only Get Better’ behind Rishi Sunak’s election announcement. They revealed their first thought was: “Not again.”Speaking from his recording studio at home in Donegal, Cunnah said: “The fact that it’s gone back to a political thing, I find disturbing. I was thinking, can we get on with our lives? But now it’s come back.
“It's happened to a lot of other bands as well in America and here because songs get sort of intrinsically linked to something, it can really affect it in a negative way. “I mean, I'll be voting to get the Tories out, but I don't really want the song to be linked to that.” When asked what they’d say if they had been approached by Sir Keir Starmer with a request to use one of their songs, Mackenzie told LBC: “There’s no way - our songs and politics, never again.
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