Frontman Tim Booth has spoken to Billboard about how the song came to be used in the trailer, after years of the band protecting the song from advertising.
Producers reportedly put together a highly stylised version of the song for the trailer, which Booth said was “so different, the chords were different, everything was different about it.
If you’re a Game of Thrones fan you likely will have seen the recent trailer for season 7, ‘The Long Walk’, featuring a remix of the song ‘Sit Down’ by British band James.
Asked why he thought HBO was interested in the song for the trailer, Booth pointed out some of the thematic parallels between the song and the show.