‘Things Can Only Get Better’ became a ’90s classic but was dismissed as ‘handbag house’. Now living in Donegal, the singer discusses partying too hard and the UK’s Labour party ‘grooming’ him for his band’s biggest hit
Reformed: D:Ream’s Peter Cunnah (right) and Alan Mackenzie. Photo: James Hole
For a fleeting period in the mid-1990s, Pete Cunnah’s music was inescapable. His most emblematic song, Things Can Only Get Better, was every bit as ubiquitous as Wonderwall or Girls and Boys.
Four years after it was first released, the song was used as the campaign anthem that swept New Labour and Tony Blair to power in 1997, heralding a new dawn for Britain.