Gene attack new Labour on 'As Good As It Gets'. 


Gene have launched a scathing attack on New Labour on 
'As Good As It Gets', which is currently No.23 in the chart. 
Frontman, Martin Rossiter says it's a political song: 
"It's a song that when you lie in bed and you've waited for seventeen 
years for a Labour government and you think 'Oh God. This is it'. It's 
that disappointment", he told Radio 1. 
"It's also a song that attacks my own naivety because I blindly hope that 
we might have something vaguely resembling socialism - and we haven't." 
Gene have just started their biggest UK tour as far as dates go, but this 
time around the venues are a lot smaller: "There's no shame in it. If we 
got back to the days where we were playing to sort of four of our friends 
and a stray squirrel we might think about giving up but we're certainly 
beyond that", said Martin. 
"I'm quite happy to admit we've stepped a couple of rungs down the ladder, 
simply because it has been a long time since we've made a record." 



Gene's blatant boozing anthem. 


Gene have admitted their next single is a blatant boozing anthem! 
'Fill Her Up' is the second release from the 'Revelations' album and is 
due out in a fortnight. 
Matt and Martin talked to Radio 1 about the fine art of getting wasted: 
"It's got a Russian feel to it. It's got us pretending to be Cossacks on 
it", they say. "It's a right old Cossack knees-up. It's a geographically 
confused song, though, 'coz in the middle, for some reason, it goes to 
Mexico. Occasionally we do a version which sounds sort of half-Jamaican, 
half-French. But the theme is certainly Russia and Vodka." 


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