Captain Ska, the band behind this summer’s
viral smash hit Liar Liar GE2017, a
scathing attack on Theresa May and her government released just before the 2017
General Election, are joining the race for the Christmas charts with a new
track called Sons and Daughters,
that was officially released this week.
Band member Jake
Painter said the new song reflects a “new mood of hope” following what he
described as “a disastrous election for Theresa May and the Conservative
Party.” Adding: “It looks like it won’t be long before we see the end of this
government and it couldn’t come soon enough. We hope the song can give a boost
to all those who have suffered under this government and who want to see a
better world.”
The new song
highlights growing homelessness and inequality that has risen since the
Conservative Party took power. It accuses the newspapers of “poisoning our
minds” to sell their “rags of hate”. But the song goes on to claim “the unjust
order’s crumbling, it’s time to take control,” and features a sample from
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking at Glastonbury announcing that “another
world is possible”.
As with Liar Liar, Sons and Daughters is released in conjunction with the campaign
group The People’s Assembly Against Austerity. Profits from sales up until
Christmas will be donated to the anti-austerity campaign group and used to buy
supplies for food banks across the country. The People’s Assembly recently
delivered the food supplies bought by the profits from Liar Liar to Downing Street in a protest the night before the
Budget earlier this month.
Captain Ska are
hoping to repeat some of the success of their 2017 election campaign, which saw
them reach Number Four in the UK Official Charts and peak at Number One in the
iTunes download charts despite not receiving any radio airplay and being
censored from all the radio airwaves, including the BBC Radio 1 Official Chart
Show and the BigTop40 download charts.
We have one week
to get it in the top 40s, forcing the BBC to play it over the airways! Please
download and share, share, share!!!!
You can download
the song on all major platforms including iTunes, Bandcamp, Amazon and Spotify.
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