The Proclaimers removed from Coronation playlist

[Blackleaf]

Proclaimers removed from King's Coronation playlist​

23 April 2023
BBC News

The Scottish rock duo's hit was removed from the UK Government's Coronation playlist

The Proclaimers have been removed from an official King's Coronation playlist after they were criticised for their anti-royal views.

Twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid's hit I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) was featured alongside prominent UK artists.

Last year they agreed with a republican demonstrator who shouted during the Proclamation of King Charles III.

The BBC understands the song was removed by the UK government following complaints.

The Proclaimers' management have been approached for comment.

A Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokesperson said: "The playlist has been created to celebrate British and Commonwealth artists ahead of the upcoming coronation."

The Proclaimers originally featured on the Spotify playlist alongside Queen, The Beatles, Tom Jones, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Emeli Sande and some other top UK artists.

The tracks were picked by the DCMS as a suggested street party soundtrack.

The playlist is included on a website which provides information and ideas for marking the Coronation, including recipes and children's activities.

Charlie Reid, 61, expressed republican views in an interview with The National after a man in Oxford was arrested for shouting "Who elected him?" during a Proclamation event for King Charles III last September.

The Proclaimer singer said: "I thought that guy spoke for me, and he speaks for loads of other people. Not just in Scotland, but right around the UK."

Symon Hill, who works for the pacifist Peace Pledge Union, was initially charged under the Public Order Act but his case was later dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.

The Proclaimers have described their song In Recognition, from the 2007 album Life With You, as a representation of "our overwhelming contempt for people on the left in this country who snipe against the royal family and then end up taking honours".

The King's Coronation will take place on 6 May at Westminster Abbey in London.

Proclaimers removed from King's coronation playlist - BBC News

The BBC understands the move was made in response to complaints about the band's anti-royal views.

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[Blackleaf]

The hit that was removed from the King's Coronation playlist of British artists...

The Proclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" (1988)

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Well, it is in your national song. . .

"Rebellious Scots to crush"

 

[Blackleaf]

Well, it is in your national song. . .

"Rebellious Scots to crush"

The rebellious Scots should remember that the King's grandmother - Queen Elizabeth - was a Scot who was born at Glamis Castle. King Charles III was said to have been closer to her growing up than he was to her daughter and his mother Queen Elizabeth II. The now King Charles III described his mother as "not very comforting" when he was a child. This was probably because he was a small boy when his mother became Queen and she was concentrating on her duties as Head of State. So he has Scottish ancestry and he almost always wears a kilt when he visits Scotland. He loves Scotland.

The rebellious Scots like The Proclaimers should also take a look at the scandal that their nationalist SNP government are currently embroiled in and think to themselves: "Do we really want a politician as our Head of State?"

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Ah, you client states are so damn cute!

I see the Union Jack in flames (let it burn!)
I see Namatjira with dignity
I see Truganini in chains
--Peter Garrett, Truganini

 

[Blackleaf]

Ah, you client states are so damn cute!

I see the Union Jack in flames (let it burn!)
I see Namatjira with dignity
I see Truganini in chains
--Peter Garrett, Truganini

You've got to love the fact that a group of guys (Australian band Midnight Oil), who are descended from British convicts, convicts who did their nefarious deeds when Australia was a vast British penal colony, wrote a song which basically ponders: "Why are we here in Australia?"

Maybe they should check Britain's National Archives and they might find out what their ancestors stole or murdered that made them Australians.

Truganini (song) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

You've got to love the fact that a group of guys (Australian band Midnight Oil), who are descended from British convicts, convicts who did their nefarious deeds when Australia was a vast British penal colony, wrote a song which basically ponders: "Why are we here in Australia?"

Maybe they should check Britain's National Archives and they might find out what their ancestors stole or murdered that made them Australians.

Truganini (song) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Speaking of cute, you think all White Australians are descended from British convicts! That is SO. . . DAMN. . . CUTE!

Almost as cute as the notion that late-18th and 19th-century British criminal law was accurate or just.