Bank Charges Anthem - "I fought the Lloyds" by Oystar

[veliptor]

lol i remeber when you came to our school ( st gregorys )

[ujustgotpwned2008]

Lol I did a Creative Writing M.A. with Dan (the singer). Nice guy.

[theallseeinggnome]

I CAN'T GO OVER 500 WORDS, SHAME. LISTEN HSBC, LLOYDS, TSB,HALLIFAX Etc, US POOR PEOLE HAVE BEEN SCREWED BY YOU, ALL WE WANT IS OUR MONEY BACK, YOU TOOK AVANTAGE OF US,SIMPLE AS THAT.NOW HALIFAX WANTS TO CHARGE £1 TO £5 A DAY. WOW LEGALISED MUGGING, HOW THE HELL CAN YOU GET AWAY WITH THIS. WE DIDN'T ASK YOU LOT TO 'BORROW SO MUCH TO GET US OUT OF THIS S**T' THE GOVERMENT CAUSED IT. ALL WE NORMAL PEOPLE WANT IS TO TRY TO GET SOME OF OUR LIVES BACK. I HAVE BEEN CHEERS HSBC THE CARING LOCAL BANK

[zoegee]

chris i have now chang

ed accounts to a credit union who can funnily enough only charge £3 if a DD is missed and who do not charge for letters.

funny how main stream banks cant manage to do this? how can they possibly claim to have higher costs than a local credit union?

strange...perhaps they are actually being honest????????????????????????­?

BOYCOTT THE BIG BANKS THEY ARE STEALING FROM THE POOREST MEMBERS OF SOCIETY WITH NO CONSCIENCE .... JAIL THE FECKERS

[stephenold]

Kitty below,

You have no idea about the hardship that charges of between one hunded and six hundred pounds a month cause to decent hard workingTRUTHFUL people who have lost work through stress

[Bethh0043]

Legands, they played at my school hope they rember me, we like huged thema nd where liek AHH HEY

[stephenold]

This is truthful and full of hope and humanity; unlike lLoyds TSB. They have taken thousands of me since I lost a job through high blood pressure and stress. The bank that is there "For the Journey" have made my journey a nightmare!

[djchancho1]

Awesome!

[huddfilms]

come on!!

[xstrawberryx11]

love this song never give up! wooo

[calvin191]

im a staff member and unless you got them back before this went to court you aint getting them back no way!!!

[ejthescouser]

Yeah right mate im claiming mine back as a hardship case so stfu

[seangrie8]

Good vid.Well done.

[abominableangel]

£6000 baby suck on that lloyds i'll take that in £5 pound notes please mowhahaha count it bitch COUNT IT!!

[oystarmusic]

Yes! Get in! Can you believe they're now charing 15-25 GBP per day for being over and 15GBP for the privilege for any month that you do it in. Feels like they're making one last grab for the money to shore up some capital before they're ordered to give the whole lot back.

Anyway - Congratulations. You're officially a member of the 'I fought the Lloyds' club.

[Quietlydoesit]

This story is actually very low on the list of media stories because the people who run the media all piss in the same pot as the bankers. The well off don't incur bank charges because they are loaded anyway. We are being robbed every day...British Telecom are a bunch of robbers too.

[Tomismad]

Cant Get Enough of This I Saw you Protesting

[stasiej]

This is such an amusing song - and number 25 on the big chart ;P

[Tomismad]

This Is Great

[salmanc1]

fantastic! love it!!

[vornio]

LOL

[vickymumof2]

BRILLIANT!

[danjam100]

Thanks Vicky. Not fan of the banks then?

[vickymumof2]

Ha ha, not a fan of Lloyds! I put my claim in a few months ago, £2000!

[chrisking73]

i work for lloydstsb and you will never get any of that back! fact!

[seangrie8]

Oh do you now, you told me you were a copper.Your a sad bastard arnt you.

[EmperorFlea]

Wow, I truly thought people were kind and nice enough to at least look out for other people if they can. You sound like an evil jerk. How do you sleep at night, being evil?

[imnotastudent23]

i am sorry... but this sucks! its not even funny

[oystarmusic]

Oystar are protesting outside the court on Fleet Street for the next few weeks and there is currently a lot of media interest. It would be great to get some more people along to the protest to really put the pressure on the banks as the story is all over the papers and TV at the moment. If anyone wants to come along, or wants to come to any of our upcoming gigs, sign up to our newsletter at OystarMusic dot com and we'll keep you posted on times & dates. Hope to see you soon!

[Irondukesteve]

Go out and buy the song!! Banks are theives...

[AVRILSBEAN]

Iam trying to decide weather there was a second gunman onthe grassy knoll

[xine267]

Oops that was meant to be in reply to someone else's comment!

Great song, and I can't wait to see the outcome of this trial ... the fact that banks have already dropped their charges shows only that they know how unreasonable their charges were in the first place!

[alexanderb101]

This is an amazing song! Top 10 next week please!

Haha I remember last night. It was a rather odd ending to newsnight but it's a class song nonetheless.

Hope the Lloyds is suitably embarressed now :p

[oystarmusic]

Text 'Bankers' to 82822 to join the fight against the banks and get your copy of the song!

[dvddom]

I posted a positive comment about this song. Where'd it go?

[oystarmusic]

Very sorry dvddom, I have no idea... can you remember what it said? Anyone else had disappearing comments?

[dvddom]

Could've been because I put my web address in it, but with good cause as I heard this song on the telly and am about to champion it in my next music chart on DVDfever. co. uk, which I'll upload shortly:

This is an excellent song! This is the only time I've thought bank charges should go higher... in that, this

song about them should go higher in the charts :)

[dvddom]

Ah, it's all working now. It was the web thing :)

[oystarmusic]

I can't believe they just ended Newsnight with this. That was definitely the most surreal moment of the whole bank charges song adventure!

[danjam100]

Bank Charges Music Video as seen on Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman!

[arsenalwegner]

banks are thieving bankers!

[oystarmusic]

They bank with Lloyds!

[dave11b]

Any idea why The Hits TV didn't play this video when they did the official Top 40 on TV tonight ?

[jazzap33]

well done guys great song might take your advice

[oystarmusic]

Number 25 in the UK charts! Thanks to everyone who has bought it so far - keep spreading the word and let's get bank charges higher up the agenda this week!

[JAELadams]

My fiancee has claimed back five and a half grand, i know it's shameful to have had that many charges but Hurrah anyway. Love the song.. saw it on the news at noon xxx yay

[rachelharri82]

yes this song is excellent! I have two young children and Im a full time mum, who gives the bank the right to take large sums of my childrens child benefit money!!! Hope this song gets to nu one!

[mailma38]

AlyKittyfeet and chrisking73 arent you lucky that you both work for banks and therefore don't have to pay bank charges like the rest of us.Also you are able to make sure that items are paid when you have the funds unlike us mere mortals

[kated101]

This is great, but what made it even better are the comments from people who work at banks, ive never laughed so much. They dont even understand the problem in the charges. No wonder it feels like you're talking to a moron when you phone them up. Ooh maybe they know where the money they used to charge went...

[slaterio]

Please send this link and how to download it to any email address books you come into contact with. Tell everyone you meet and show the banks that the 'little people' can't be bullied!

[capoz77]

Ive downloaded it LETS GET IT TO NO 1!

[Scotlass99]

Fantastic, stick it right up ye banks!! I've text banker to 82822 and hopefully it'll get high up in the charts!!

[juniordogsbody]

As featured on the 'Tony Horne In The Morning' radio show: tonyhorneinthemorning. com

[djlookwood]

fantastic!

the revolution will be exceedingly funny!

[oystarmusic]

Poor old Aly Kitty. I'm sorry you don't like the song mate, obviously there are two sides to every story. It's a song that tells an original story in order to help other people get their money back. If it looks cheap, that's probably because it is. Best of luck getting out of your chair some time soon and thanks for the comments - they all help our cause ; )

[AlyKittyfeet]

I work for the bank too, and this is a fucking joke, its a shit version of a great song and noone normal could ever take it seriously, it looks cheap and shit and the lyrics and bollocks. it makes no difference that i work for the bank, of course im against the message, and so would you be if you sat in my chair at work and listened to crap people spin, you have no idea mate, no idea

[xine267]

Wow, I'm glad that the people working in our banks are so articulate, reasonable and obviously happy in their jobs.

[dickscratch]

w w w . bankchargesolutions . co . uk

[chrisking73]

i work for the bank. When you open you bank account you sign an agreement to stay within your limits. Its not the banks fault that you cant manage your money.

[zoegee]

yeah maybe but the fact is the charges are ripping us all off as they do not charge us a realistic sum based on their costs.

i want my money back and so do most people.

so chris get a real job u muppet!

[chrisking73]

Bank charges have now dropped at the leading banks. At lloydstsb they are £6 a day if you go over by less than £25. Just apply for an overdraft or make sure you have the right amoudn of money in there.

[marcia444]

yawn...i can tell you work for a bank.

[sweatie94]

genius!

[SuShIeBeAnZ]

i saw these in covent garden last week! i was with the random group of school kids (i was the one videoing with my phone :P).

you were great!!! we were singing this song all the way home

[oystarfan]

Who's the fit guy in the horse's head?

[oystarmusic]

if that isn't the most obvious attempt in the world to stitch me up then i dont know what is!

kev oystar

[danjam100]

Power to the people! Let's get those bankers to give us back our money! Bank charges are not a proportional response to a customer going overdrawn, they are not fair and they are not legal under uk contract law.

Please spread this video around - this is the highest quality version on youtube at the mo.

[xmisshudgensx]

this is great