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.
