A musician has revealed his band turned down £30,000 from the makers of Jeremy Clarkson’s next TV series to use their song in a new trailer. Although the song isn’t named, given that Clarkson is recovering from a huge scandal caused by his infamous newspaper column on Meghan Markle where he said he “hates” her and dreams of seeing her publicly humiliated, it’s probably easy to guess given the band’s most famous song.
Boff Whalley from anarcho-punk and folk band Chumbawamba revealed on Twitter that they had taken great delight in turning down the request. Their most famous song is arguably ‘Tubthumping’, which includes the lines ‘I get knocked down, but I get up again. You are never gonna keep me down.’
On Twitter Whalley said: “So anyway today we turned down £30,000 for our song to be used for a trailer for Jeremy Clarkson’s new TV series. I can’t tell you how much satisfaction that gave us.” The next series of Clarkson’s farm is due to air February 10.
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The news was greeted with joy by fans being totally in favour of the band's refusal. Yasmin tweeted: “We love you so much. Thank you x.” HairyWelshMan78 said: “You stick by your guns mate, £30k a lot of money but being able to look at yourself in the mirror is priceless.”
Ken Hunt added: “And no prizes for guessing which one Clarkson’s little machine selected. Bravo Chumbawamba.” Jane Rodway said: “Quite right too!... You would have felt dreadful had you taken it.”
As anger grew over his column last month Clarkson responded to the controversy, writing on Twitter: “Oh dear. I’ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people.
“I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.” The piece was removed from The Sun’s website at Clarkson’s request. The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) said Clarkson’s newspaper column has become its most complained about article.
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