Blur’s Dave Rowntree fails in bid to grow to be Labour MP
Regardless of Labour’s historic victory on the UK normal election yesterday (July 4), Blur drummer Dave Rowntree was unsuccessful in his bid to grow to be MP for his Mid Sussex constituency.
Rowntree was crushed to a seat by Alison Bennett, the candidate for the Liberal Democrats.
When he introduced he’d been chosen as Labour candidate final March, he stated: “I’m delighted to have the chance to grow to be Labour’s first Mid Sussex MP. Residents have their greatest likelihood in a era to make their vote depend and return a Labour MP to parliament.”
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— Dave Rowntree (@DaveRowntree) June 29, 2024
Sir Keir Starmer has now fulfilled that purpose, with Labour sweeping a whole bunch of seats throughout the nation and ending 14 years of Conservative rule.
The FAC, for whom Rowntree is an Artist in Residence, have prolonged their commiserations to the X drummer, however have stated they stay up for working with “a brand new inflow of MPs” following the Labour win.
On the finish of 12 months FAC AGM in 2023, which NME supported, Rowntree highlighted the monetary difficulties musicians have been dealing with due to streaming.
“Our Blur album ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ on week one within the UK bought simply over 44,000 models – together with 22,000 vinyl albums, 13,000 CDs, 3,000 cassettes and a pair of,000 sales-equivalent streams,” he stated.
“Actually, the album had tens of tens of millions of streams on Spotify alone however the cassette gross sales had a much bigger influence on our chart place. How does that make sense?”
Final 12 months, Rowntree shared his ideas on the present PM with NME, and forecasted his election victory.
Referring to the general public’s notion of Starmer, he stated: “Nicely, the take a look at is at Common Elections. If he wins the Common Election, he’ll be broadly touted as essentially the most visionary Labour chief of contemporary occasions and can be part of the extremely small variety of Labour leaders who’ve gone on to grow to be prime minister.
“If he loses, he’ll be thought to be an fool who wrecked the Labour Social gathering and achieved nothing,” he continued. “That’s how politics works – it’s pointless saying how he’s doing in the intervening time. The aim of being the chief of the Labour Social gathering is to win the Common Election. He’s both going to do it or he isn’t.”
Elsewhere, Blur have introduced their new ‘Dwell at Wembley Stadium’ album, which can accompany their brand-new documentary and live performance movie To The Finish.
In a five-star assessment of the movie, NME shared: “They bicker, they hug, they name one another c**ts, they get the job carried out. Whereas Blur’s final doc and accompanying dwell film No Distance Left To Run was a portrait of a band celebrating their legacy and giving a nostalgia-hungry world precisely what they craved, this non secular sequel reveals a band merely supporting one another. Whether or not they return once more or not stays to be seen. However even when they don’t, this was one hell of a ultimate fling.”