{"id":973953,"date":"2019-12-09T20:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T03:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=924562"},"modified":"2019-12-09T20:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T03:39:21","slug":"brian-eno-blasts-british-conservative-party-on-new-pre-election-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/brian-eno-blasts-british-conservative-party-on-new-pre-election-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Eno Blasts British Conservative Party on New Pre-Election Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_8289281f.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brian-eno\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brian-eno\" data-tag=\"brian-eno\">Brian Eno<\/a> envisions \u201ca few more years of Brexit purgatory\u201d on his bouncy, satirical new song \u201cEverything\u2019s on the Up With the Tories.\u201d The track, which also touches on income inequality, unemployment and healthcare, blasts the British Conservative Party ahead of the U.K. general election on Thursday, December 12th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything\u2019s up the creek with the Blue Boys\/They\u2019re selling off the NHS to cowboys,\u201d Eno sings over a tuba-like thump. \u201cThey\u2019re cutting back on nurses but investing it in hearses\/The nitwits, and the we-don\u2019t-have-a-clue boys.\u201d Later, he observes, \u201cEverything\u2019s on the up with the righties\/Who worship at the feet of Trump Almighty\/There\u2019s people in the street without a bloody crust to eat\/But everything\u2019s on the up for the Tories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the YouTube description, Eno notes that all proceeds from the song will \u201cgo to the homeless.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eno, widely outspoken with his political views, recently signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/dec\/03\/vote-for-hope-and-a-decent-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">note<\/a> \u2014 along with Roger Waters, Massive Attack and actor Rob Delaney, among others \u2014 endorsing Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the election.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Eno and numerous other artists \u2014 including Thom Yorke, David Byrne, U2\u2019s Adam Clayton and Spice Girls\u2019 Mel B \u2014 addressed accusations of climate hypocrisy in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/thom-yorke-david-byrne-eno-extinction-rebellion-open-letter-900296\/\">open letter<\/a> authored by environmental activists Extinction Rebellion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/brian-eno-new-song-everythings-on-the-up-with-the-tories-924562\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Eno envisions \u201ca few more years of Brexit purgatory\u201d on his bouncy, satirical new song \u201cEverything\u2019s on the Up With the Tories.\u201d The track, which also touches on income inequality, unemployment and healthcare, blasts the British Conservative Party ahead of the U.K. general election on Thursday, December 12th. \u201cEverything\u2019s up the creek with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 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