There is something slightly uncanny about the musical Marsh family of Faversham in Kent, who recently gathered millions of YouTube views with ‘Gimme Hope Kamala’, their rewrite of Eddy Grant’s ‘Gimme Hope Jo’Anna’.
They are a combination of two big fads of the 70s, The Partridge Family and Jonestown. Mad Ma Marsh in particular has the shining eyes of someone appearing in a slightly different kind of video, containing the words ‘My captors are treating me very well and I now fully support their valiant armed struggle’.
If you really did believe fascism was returning, dropping a comic song on the internet would probably not be your first action
The musical endeavours of this bumptious brood began, like many unpleasant things, during lockdown, when they composed convivial ditties about how jolly awful it was to be sat at home doing nothing much. Not to my taste, no, but heigh-ho.
But ever since there has been a drift in the Marshes’ ‘content’ towards the political, and what passes for the left nowadays.
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