David Gray – Instrument of Torture
Posted Fri 4 Jul 2008 1:33PM BST by Mitch Carter in The Guestlist
Middle-of-the-road Mancunian miserablist David Gray has hit out at reports that his music has been used as an instrument of torture by US interrogators. 
The singer-songwriter's hit single Babylon is said to be the preferred choice of the US military in Iraq who play the track incessantly to detainees during interrogation sessions.
"What we're talking about here is people in a darkened room, physically inhibited by handcuffs, bags over their heads and music blaring at them." said the singer taking on Radio Four's World Tonight programme.
Playing loud music repeatedly to detainees is thought to be a standard interrogation technique used by the US military.
Picture, if you will, a burr-headed cigar-chomping Marine - Colonel Hiram Z. Huffanpuffer the 9th, perhaps - sitting in some water-stained, bare-bulb concrete bunker. Somewhere in the deepest darkest corners of what passes for a brain Hiram recalls that the "ancient Egyptian town of Baby-lon, where they invented hair-care products or sumthin", used to stand in some dusty corner of what is now Iraqistan. "Google it, Flumpenmeyer" he barks to the grunt hunched over a laptop in the corner, and hey presto - David Gray!
Maybe if they did they would find osama quicker lol, gray's music obviously isn't torturous enough lol
Please just shoot me, i can't take anymore.. lol
lol, what a joke!!
Althoug the effects can be reproduced by any music tracks they use. He shouldn't be so offended by this. At least they aren't beating the people into talking.