North Londoners, beware: ITV political editor Robert Peston may be singing in a street near you soon. Peston debuted his new band Centrist Dad at a street party in York Rise in Camden yesterday, featuring ex-Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls on drums, with pals John Wilson and Chris Taylor playing bass and guitar.
The group were surprisingly punk, playing Seventies hits including One Way Or Another by Blondie, with Peston, inset above, channelling Debbie Harry, and Anarchy in the UK by The Sex Pistols, in which he crooned “I am an anti-Christ, I am an anarchist.” Really, Robert? They also played hits by The Clash and The Ramones. “Centrist dad” is shorthand for middle-aged men who yearn for a return to the Nineties. Balls has said they chose the name because all band members are “middle of the road” in their politics and they are all fathers.
