Waterboarding video nasty of Sam Cam’s favourite indie band
ONE of rock fan Mrs Cameron’s favourite bands has made a shocking video featuring a blood-spattered woman being hit in the face with hammer and tortured by waterboarding.
The Prime Minister’s wife loves contemporary music and regularly attends concerts by trendy ‘indie’ groups, and goes to summer pop festivals.
It is hard to imagine previous Tory No 10 spouses – such as Norma Major or Denis Thatcher – going to a concert by psychedelic US band Polica, one of Mrs Cameron’s current favourites, as she did recently.
The grisly front cover of the group’s latest album features a topless woman with her back turned and with her hair and neck covered in blood.
The disturbing video for one track, Tiff, shows lead singer Channy Leaneagh waterboarding herself and hitting herself in the face with a hammer in mock self-torture.
The album, Shulamith, is named in honour of Shulamith Firestone, a Canadian radical Marxist Canadian feminist. Firestone, who died in 2012, was the author of a book, The Dialectic Of Sex: The Case For A Feminist Revolution.
Leaneagh has described her music as ‘rhythm-driven sex noise’. Mrs Cameron saw the band perform in Shoreditch, East London, when they toured the UK.
Another of her favourite groups is the ‘post-punk’ US band The War On Drugs.
She spends much of the day listening to indie music on the BBC’s 6 Music station.
She said: ‘I love it. I’d happily pay my licence fee just for 6 Music.’