Foals: “The only party that this record isn’t for is a Tory party”
nme.comFoals have hit out at the current UK Conservative government, the ongoing ‘Partygate’ scandal and other things doing “long-lasting” damage to the country.The band were speaking to NME for this week’s Big Read cover story to launch their upcoming seventh album ‘Life Is Yours’.
Rejecting the “doom soup” of their previous records ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’ parts one and two and the subsequent pandemic, the Oxford trio sought to make a “going out record”.“We were thinking about parties, club nights and being drunk on the bus at 2am trying to get home,” frontman Yannis Philippakis told NME. “All of it: the excitement before you go out, meeting up with your friends, the wild abandon. ‘Who’s got the pingers?
Where are we going?’ This is all of that youthful excess of going out.”However, the frontman did say that he would not welcome the album being used to soundtrack any frivolities at Number 10 Downing Street. “The only party that this record isn’t for is a Tory party,” he said, referring to the ongoing scandal that surrounds Sue Gray’s report into parties that were held at the Prime Minister’s office building and residence during lockdown. “It’s disgraceful, absolutely disgraceful.”Asked about his hopes for the current government, Philippakis said: “If they’re not gone, then there needs to be some very serious questions about what the outlook of the entire country is.
We were surprised by Brexit, we were surprised by voting practices and there have been multiple times when it has felt disappointing to live in this country in certain ways, but you have to have hope that we’re going to do the right thing.”He continued: “You can’t have the type of rampant corruption that goes on and just all the lying.
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