MANIC STREET PREACHERS PULL POLITICAL TUNE

Last updated: Sunday, March 29, 2009

MANIC STREET PREACHERS PULL POLITICAL TUNE

Welsh rockers MANIC STREET PREACHERS have ordered a far-right wing political party to stop using one of their songs in a publicity campaign.

Manic Street Preachers at Hydro Connect Festival - Day 1, Inverarry, Scotland - 29.08.08

The band's 1998 single If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next has been adopted by the U.K.'s British National Party (BNP) - and the tune has been used to accompany a promotional video for the organisation on YouTube.com entitled The Cesspit Called London.

But the Design For Life hitmakers were quick to lodge their objections - and the song has now been removed.

The track was written about the International Brigade - a group of foreign volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. The song's title was a popular poster slogan during the 1930s conflict.

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Source: WENN

| Sunday, March 29, 2009

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