Y’know what will garner more publicity for your new song than it being played on a radio station? You uploading a video to Facebook crying about said radio station refusing to play your song, before telling them to shove it up their arse.
Scottish singer Sandi Thom, most famous for her 2006 single ‘I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker’, posted a video to Facebook tearfully criticising the BBC for refusing to play her new song ‘Earthquake on its Radio 2 station. “I just heard that ‘Earthquake’ didn’t make the Radio 2 playlist,” Thom said, adding: “I wanted to make this video so people realise how much it hurts because I apparently can do no right.”
Claiming ‘Earthquake’ “perfectly fits the format for their station,” Thom continued: “I am done with this industry. I am f***ing sick and tired of having to sit on the edge of my seat waiting for these people to come back and tell me their verdict of whether this song is going to be a success. Basically without their support it can’t be a success.”
Thom then concluded the video by embarking upon an expletive-laden condemnation of the BBC and the music industry in general, in what must be one of the very best selection of sentences ever uttered by a musician:
“Honest to God I’m fucking sick to death of the bullshit this industry pulls on people like me and I’ve had it. Enough I’m done. Fuck you radio 2. Fuck you Bauer network and fuck the lot of you.
“It is utter shit. It’s an fucking good song, okay. There is no reason why you need to do this to me once again. That is it. I’m done. I have better things to do with my life and time and this is utter bullshit.
“See you later Radio 2. Go shove it up your arse cause I really don’t care anymore.”
Watch the video, which was inevitably removed from Thom’s Facebook page but promptly reuploaded to the Internet by a variety of sources, below:
And if you were wondering about the song that started all this controversy, take a listen below:
