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Chumbawamba man not impressed with UKIP using his hit
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 12 September 2011
Chumbawamba’s ex-frontman has hit out at the UK Independence Party for using his former’s band’s hit ‘Tubthumping’ during its annual conference in Eastbourne this weekend. Apparently the song played as the party’s leader Nigel Farage took to the stage.
Dunstan Bruce told The Guardian he was angry that the right-leaning anti-Europe party chose to use his former band’s pro-anarchy song, telling the broadsheet: “This song being used by UKIP is so wrong. I am absolutely appalled that this grubby little organisation are stealing our song to use for their own ends. It’s beyond the pale and if they use it again we will consider legal action”.
Unfortunately for Bruce, and as previously noted, assuming the venue used by UKIP has the appropriate public performance licences, there is nothing he could do under copyright law to stop the anti-Europeans using his songs at their conference. All I can suggest is that, having been knocked down by Farage and friends, Bruce gets up again and pisses the night away.
