It was only yesterday that I was wondering why we don’t have any angry political music in the UK. It’s certainly not that everything is perfect, because honestly, if you aren’t pissed off at the state of things, you can’t be paying attention. Sure, a few bands are making their statements, like Bloc Party (Hunting for Witches) and Brakes (Hold Me in the River), but it’s all pretty sedate compared to the anger a certain President on the other side of the Atlantic seems to attract. So when a promo email started talking about Tony Blair stepping down and celebrating “the fact we might see a little less of his grinning, murderous face”, it had my attention.

All of this is thanks to Derby seven piece Plans & Apologies, who have already put together a song “mainly because none of us can stand the thought of Tony Blair being remembered as anything but a war criminal and this week’s fawning tributes have made our bamboo taste funny.” Which I can’t really argue with at all. Seeing the bastard given a round of applause at Prime Minister’s Questions last week was one of the most disheartening things I have seen politically in a long while. Anyways, the song itself cleverly plays around with the idea that war is sold as entertainment to the masses.

MP3 – Mel Gibson’s… Iraq! (expired)
MP3 Plans and Apologies – Attenzione Caldo (expired)
MP3 Plans and Apologies – Tony Blair: Fucknut (expired)

At least now we know why things aren’t going too well in Afghanistan. Joel Schumacher is directing.

Plans & Apologies: Website || Myspace

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Tory Yay: Boris has to be made Mayor of London. Granted, it’s not Prime Minister (we’re still working on that one), but it’s a start. Can’t be worse than what’s there already anyway.

Tory Boo: VIOLENT MUZIKS MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!1111111. Won’t somebody please think of the children? Spare me.

Idea of mixing politics with music in a weekly post shamelessly stolen from Charles at Heartache with Hard Work, who does this sort of thing far better than me.