White Light Parade - A Message To Gordon Brown

When you grow up in a town that has nothing to offer but drugs and violence, a crap night out and a bleak future, when there’s nothing worth doing but slamming off school or going to the job centre to be told there’s nothing they can do for you, the only way we could find escapism was to write songs about real life and poems about common sense. Once we started touring it became apparent that other people are experiencing the same problems that we are, in other cities of not so Great Britain.

The ‘House of Commons’ poem came about with the album title and songs about 3 years ago. Originally written as a song, I felt it was more poignant as a poem and complimented our lyrical content. It sends out a strong message that we are being cheated and lied to by the government so they can line their pockets with gold (something that at the moment is poignantly apt with the expenses scandal) as we watch our nation fold.

We don’t want to come across as killjoys we are just predicting what’s going to happen if we don’t sort it out. Our songs are as much about hope as fear and are inspiring and confrontational... Our words are our weapons.

We feel that the only way of having a voice or expressing your opinions these days is to stand up for what you believe in, or in our case sing about it. As a band that have a young following that may not be into politics in the geeky sense, still get what we are about and feel our songs and poems relate to them.

If there is such a thing as reincarnation we want to come back as rats, rats dressed in suits with a job in banking or the House of Commons!

White Light Parade's debut album 'House Of Commons' is released on May 25.