Indie band Friendly Fires have hit out the Conservative party after their song was used during their conference in Manchester.
Their 2011 single Blue Cassette could be heard as Boris Johnson walked off stage after delivering his keynote speech.
However, the group has said that they did not give their permission for the party to use the song at their event.
They also added that they are taking measures to ensure this does not happen again in the future.
Taking to Twitter, they wrote: ‘We do not endorse the Conservative party’s use of our track Blue Cassette.
‘Our permission was not sought, and we have asked our management to make sure it isn’t used again.’
Expressing their disliking of the party, they went on to add: ‘If we’d have intended them to use it, we’d have named the track Blue Bunch Of Corrupt Wankers.’
Sharing a screenshot of a headline from a 2017 article which read, ‘Jacob Rees-Mogg: Food banks “rather uplifting”,’ the band added that: ‘If Boris Johnson needed something uplifting to walk on to, perhaps he should have used the sound of a busy food bank.’
Friendly Fires’ track was singled out for its reference to the colour blue, which is also the Tories’ signature colour.
The track has nothing to do with politics at all as it tells an eerily supernatural tale of someone digging up an old cassette tape in the garden which begins playing old memories.
For the same reason, Electric Light Orchestra’s song Mr Blue Sky was used to introduce the Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, the PM used his conference speech to call for the unleashing of the ‘unique spirit’ of the country as he set out the ‘difficult’ process of reshaping the British economy.
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