Canary Wharf builders sing the credit crunch blues

Four construction workers who worked at Canary Wharf have formed a band and recorded a single about the credit crunch.

Canary Wolf performed Credit Crunch at their first gig last week in Mudchute, east London.

The song is similar in style to Ian Dury and the Blockheads and includes the line “Forget climate change, the price and starvation, there's a new fear sweeping the nation”.

The song also refers to carrots being crunched, and frontman Richard Bray tossed the vegetable into the crowd as the gig reached its climax.

Bray told the Evening Standard: “Everyone is worried and those of us in construction don't know where the next job is coming from. We're hoping we might release the single and it would be ironic if we made money out of the credit crunch.”