A BRITISH band has spoken out to condemn Boris Johnson after he used their song at the Tories’ party conference.
Friendly Fires posted their attack on the Prime Minister on Instagram after their song Blue Cassette was played as he walked on stage to deliver his keynote speech.
Johnson used his speech to attack his political opponents in Labour and the SNP, and refer to Michael Gove’s now infamous night out in Aberdeen on numerous occasions.
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The speech has been criticised for being largely empty of new policy, with Ian Blackford saying it was mainly “waffle and deflection”.
The English band criticised the Tory leader for walking out to give the speech to their song, saying they had not been asked and had not given their consent.
The song can be heard faintly in the background below:
In a statement posted online, Friendly Fires hit out at the Tory leader.
The band wrote: “We do not endorse the Conservative Party’s use of our track ‘Blue Cassette’.
“Our permission was not sought, and we have asked out management to make sure that it is not used again.
“If we’d intended them to use it, we’d have named the track ‘Blue Bunch of Corrupt Wankers’.”
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The band added: “If Boris Johnson needed something uplifting to walk on to, perhaps he should have used the sound of a busy food bank.”
To make clear their reference, the band shared an image of a 2017 report on Jacob Rees-Mogg calling increased food bank usage “rather uplifting”.
Friendly Fires are an indie rock band from Hertfordshire. They have released three studio albums, the most recent of which was 2019’s Inflorescent.
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