Good news for Fatboy Slim, the Labour party have shied away from using one of his tracks as their anthem for the up coming
General Election. As previously reported, Norman Cook reacted angrily when Labour used his track 'Right Here Right Now' for their conference and bye-election campaigns last year, issuing a statement to stress that the use of the song did not, under any circumstances, imply any kind of endorsement by Fatboy for the government. He told the press: "The use of the song implies that I support Blair; nothing could be further from the truth". At a previous party conference Tony Blair took to the stage to Fatboy Slim's 'Praise You' - a very modest choice.
Anyway, no Fatboy this time round. Word is Labour will be tarnishing
U2's 'Beautiful Day' by adopting it as their election anthem
- presumably that means they are relying on a warm sunny Spring to boost the nation's flagging morale and win them the election.
The Conservatives, who saw their most cool pop supporters (Busted)
split up earlier this year, have opted for Elvis' 'A Little
Less Conversation, A Little More Action' as their track. No word on what Elvis thinks about that - I'll ask him next time
I go to the chippy. Though they are presumably using the remix done by one Junkie XL - I don't know what hidden message that has, but I'm sure there's one in there somewhere.