Rishi Sunak took aim at Liz Truss during his first address to the nation as prime minister saying "mistakes were made" while she was in office.
06.10.2022 - 16:48 / completemusicupdate.com
M People’s Mike Pickering has hit at the use of his band’s track ‘Moving On Up’ as the walk-on music for Prime Minister Liz Truss’s keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday. The band’s members are “upset” and “livid” that their hit soundtracked the key moment of this year’s big Tory conference, he said, adding that many artists now “fear that these freaks are going to use [their] music”.In a tweet shortly after Truss’s keynote speech, Pickering wrote: “So apparently we can’t stop Truss walking out to our song, very weird! So sad it got used by this shower of a government”.Referencing the fact that the Labour Party made use of the track back in the 1990s, his tweet went on: “[By the way] Truss, Labour used it with permission in [the] 90s.
I don’t want my song being a soundtrack to lies”.Of course, there is a long history of artists getting annoyed when politicians make use of their music at political events. Generally it’s the use of music by right-wing politicians and political parties that results in angry statements being issued, usually by artists with very different political world views.Whenever this happens, there is usually some discussion about whether or not there is anything musicians can do to stop politicians from using their music at political gatherings.
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