What's happened to... Peter Cunnah?

"I'm so normal these days," writes Peter Cunnah on the D:Ream MySpace page. "I live in Ealing and have done for the best part of the past decade with my wife and we have two young daughters. Most Sundays we go swimming in Chiswick."

Long ago, though, Peter Cunnah was a pop star, frontman of the briefly successful D:Ream, whose main claim to fame remains the fact that their biggest hit, Things Can Only Get Better, was chosen by Labour as their campaign anthem for the 1997 General Election, the one that swept Tony Blair to power.

Ironically, by 1997 D:Ream were already washed up. The song had originally been released in 1992, a year after Cunnah had started making music with his DJ partner Al Mackenzie. A hit with clubbers, it was eventually re-released in 1994, and became a number one hit, on the back of a tour with Take That.

By this time, though, Mackenzie had left D:Ream, on the grounds that they had become "too commercial". Cunnah recorded a second album alone, but it flopped, and he parted company with his label, Warner Brothers, in 1996.

And that should have been that, had Cunnah not accidentally run into Mackenzie in February this year in a children's play park – Cunnah was with his children, Mackenzie was still drinking at 10am in the morning after spending all night clubbing. The two kissed and made up, and now D:Ream are back, to complete "unfinished business". There are live dates in November, and a new album is promised. Expect David Cameron, who has copied everything else from Tony Blair, to get in touch.