Primal Scream have strongly distanced themselves from the Conservatives after the party used the track ‘Rocks‘ at their ongoing annual conference in Manchester.
The Tory MP and Home Secretary Theresa May aired the Scottish band’s 1994 single at the end of her speech yesterday (October 4th), provoking an angry response from Primal Scream, who have released a statement which reads:
“Primal Scream are totally disgusted that the Home Secretary Theresa May ended her speech at the Tory party conference with our song ‘Rocks’. How inappropriate. Didn’t they research the political history of our band? Hasn’t she listened to the words? Does she even know what getting your rocks off means? No. She is a Tory; how could she?”
“Primal Scream are totally opposed to the coalition government, Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Howard, Clegg etc. They are legalised bullies passing new laws to ensure the wealthy stay wealthy, taking the side of big business while eradicating workers’ rights and continuing their attacks on young people, single parents and OAPs by slashing education and social security budgets, in effect persecuting the poor for being poor.”
“We would like to distance ourselves from this sick association. The Tories are waging a war on the disenfranchised, they are the enemy.”
Prime Minister David Cameron is due to make his address to the conference later today. Primal Scream probably won’t be watching.