No wonder the audience at Blair's timetable-for-departure speech were pleased to see him; they'd been tortured waiting for him to turn up. Radio Five Live had listed the music played to the waiting delegates, and it isn't pretty. In no particular order:
Mambo #5 (Louie Vega)
Beautiful Day (U2 - close personal friends, of course)
Reach For The Stars (yes, S Club)
Lifted (Lighthouse Family)
Missing (Everything But The Girl - presumably in the hope that we'll miss him like the Deserts miss the rain.)
And every one of them a hit after Blair became party leader but before the arrival of Bush, i.e. when Blair was actually *popular*. Funny that.
ReplyDeleteFunny how they didn't play "Things Can Only Get Better" this time...
ReplyDeletein related news... have you seen yesterday's hilarious Early Day Motion from parliament.
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=33173&SESSION=885
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070509/debtext/70509-0007.htm#07050990000002
Apparently copyright should be extended because the average salary of a musician is £15,000. I'm not quite sure I even remotely understand their logic there. Can anyone explain it to me?