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

As seen on Newsnight on Monday 14th January!

Featuring Martin Lewis the Money Saving Expert from MoneySavingExpert.com - this is the music video to the bank charges anthem.

"I fought the Lloyds" is the story of what happened when Dan Oystar tried to get his bank charges back - money which had been unlawfully removed from his account by Lloyds TSB.

If you want the banks to give everyone back their money - help us pile on the pressure by simply texting the word 'bankers' to 82822.

With the support of the MoneySaving Expert.com we've managed to get thousands of people to join the revolt against the banks. This song is part of an organised campaign to embarrass the banks into treating their customers a bit better.

Since the OFT test case was announced, the banks have notched up another 1 billion pounds worth of illegal charges! It's time for this to stop...

So please text 'bankers' to 82822 now!

(The cost of the single download is 50p. We're not making any money out of this - so please check out our www.myspace.com/oystar page, listen to our other songs, leave some comments and tell your mates...)

Mr Paxman is a legend.

Category:

News & Politics

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• newsnight
• paxman
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• night
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• charges
• lloyds
• oystar
• banks
• saving
• money
• moneysavingexpert
• mse
• martin
• lewis
• oft
• advice

[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.

[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!

[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?

[vickymumof2]

BRILLIANT!

[Irondukesteve]

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

[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

[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!

[Bethh0043]

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

[djchancho1]

Awesome!