Mercury Music prize 07
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twistedAM
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Yeah.. south London wins!
Fucking incredible in a way cos 18 months ago they could hardly play but hell, some decent ideas go a long way. Think it was a decent decision as they were trying something different unlike the others (guess you could argue for Bats For Lashes but there's North Americans doing it better).
The acceptance speeech was great!
Fucking incredible in a way cos 18 months ago they could hardly play but hell, some decent ideas go a long way. Think it was a decent decision as they were trying something different unlike the others (guess you could argue for Bats For Lashes but there's North Americans doing it better).
The acceptance speeech was great!
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
well, i think fair play to them. gravity's rainbow was one of the best singles of 2005, and while their album is disappointing compared to their early promise it's still not bad - just not great. i personally would have gone for bat for lashes too, but better the klaxons than shite like the arctic monkeys or jamie t.
twistedAM
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boing! said:
I'm sure it will be up on youtube. It was rather exuberant and, well, actual speech was a problem for a couple of them.
I sort of know them vaguely and they've come along way in a very short time, had lots of crtiticism from the very start, were not seen as real contenders and the emotion just got a bit much. It was really just a genuine overspill of emotion rather than an acceptance speech as such as they seemed really stuck for words. Think they dismantled the podium too but not in a showy rock star way; think they had vision problems as well
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
S'funny how the Winehouse is castgiated for her drug usage and abusage, yet when the Klaxons received their award, the wee lad in the gold lamé shirt was so coked up, his jaw almost dislocated whereas the big fat lad with the broken foot was so off his bonce that he kept having whiteys, sweating profusely and looking like he was gonna feint.
Nu-rave? Sounded like tired old NY art-rock to me, very disappointing winner. Anyone remember M-People? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.....
Nu-rave? Sounded like tired old NY art-rock to me, very disappointing winner. Anyone remember M-People? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.....
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twisted said:I'm sure it will be up on youtube. It was rather exuberant and, well, actual speech was a problem for a couple of them.
I sort of know them vaguely and they've come along way in a very short time, had lots of crtiticism from the very start, were not seen as real contenders and the emotion just got a bit much. It was really just a genuine overspill of emotion rather than an acceptance speech as such as they seemed really stuck for words. Think they dismantled the podium too but not in a showy rock star way; think they had vision problems as well
aka they were utterly clattered on drugs
Paulie Tandoori said:
innit. They were twatted to the max, I bet they thought 'we've done our song, we aint going to win, let's get on it big style'.
The 'best' moment had to be when they went upstairs to chat to jo wiley, she passed the one in the gold shirt the mic, he took it, stared wided-eyed at the camera and then let go of the mic for it to thud on the floor without speaking.. i almost died laughing
then the tall one got on the mic anc chatted absolute bollox with jools standing next to him going 'um, yeah'
twistedAM
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twister said:
yeah they certainly did a doubledrop and were genuinely taken by surprise..Jools Holland kinda announced it in a weird way by just opening the envelope really quickly and just shouting Klaxons
dropping the mic was funny...at first i thought it was being rebellious but i just think from the look on his face and the five mile stare that he just didn't know how to hold it
all of it was funny as fuck - they were so fucken surprised (and loaded)
Paulie Tandoori
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Spandex said:
Is it? I haven't got a scoobie, I'm just an old fart raver, who also liked his new wave/punk so i suppose it just sounds like the same old same old to me......
*wanders off muttering, with drool in his beard*
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
twister said:The 'best' moment had to be when they went upstairs to chat to jo wiley, she passed the one in the gold shirt the mic, he took it, stared wided-eyed at the camera and then let go of the mic for it to thud on the floor without speaking.. i almost died laughing
then the tall one got on the mic anc chatted absolute bollox with jools standing next to him going 'um, yeah'
I liked the way that gold lamé boy kept wanting to grab the mic and say something and when they let him, alls he could do was rant incoherently.
Jools looked genuinely afraid to me, a bit like 'oh no, they're gonna invite me to their afterparty.........'
Paulie Tandoori
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Now That's What I Call Music
maximilian ping
Grrrrr
i thought well worth watching
i thought they were all good apart from Basquait Strings and Maps. Amy Winehouse was a show stopper, Bat for Lashes ok but made good cos singer is v lush indeed, Irish guy was good, Arctics excellent anyway, Dizzee has become a man all of a sudden.
Klaxons award speeches etc was so fucked it was funny. cocaine gurner high school geek, sweaty pegleg and two blokes with horizontal hair. good stuff
i also liked Jools, Ade Edmonson and Telegraph journo
i thought they were all good apart from Basquait Strings and Maps. Amy Winehouse was a show stopper, Bat for Lashes ok but made good cos singer is v lush indeed, Irish guy was good, Arctics excellent anyway, Dizzee has become a man all of a sudden.
Klaxons award speeches etc was so fucked it was funny. cocaine gurner high school geek, sweaty pegleg and two blokes with horizontal hair. good stuff
i also liked Jools, Ade Edmonson and Telegraph journo
I don't have any of the albums nominated, and to be truthful I think it's only Dizzee that I want. It looks kind of like a list of acts the subgeneration after me would be interested in (I'm 24).
However, some really good albums have won it over the years; PJ Harvey, Badly Drawn Boy, Portishead and Primal Scream.
However, some really good albums have won it over the years; PJ Harvey, Badly Drawn Boy, Portishead and Primal Scream.
The_Reverend_M
More bass, vicar?
I quite like The Klaxons. Not the best thing ever (or even last year to be fair) but enjoyable none the less. 'Gravity's Rainbow' is a tune.
*runs and hides*
*runs and hides*
Winehouse and Bat for Lashes piss on all those cunts, and one or t'other would've got my vote depending on what state I was in at the conference.
Actually if I did find myself in the position of being asked to join up and vote in the Mercury prize, I'd have been getting drunk in the French House on halves and shorts,talking to Malcolm Tierney about his purple fedora.
Actually if I did find myself in the position of being asked to join up and vote in the Mercury prize, I'd have been getting drunk in the French House on halves and shorts,talking to Malcolm Tierney about his purple fedora.
Negativland
Pope Handsome VII
Conor McNME talking shit:
Anyway, hopefully winning this prize will scrape off the thin veneer or trendyness off the Klaxons, leaving the gormless indie band for people to see.
Anyway, hopefully winning this prize will scrape off the thin veneer or trendyness off the Klaxons, leaving the gormless indie band for people to see.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
twister said:
It was also her second album on a major label. Loads of politics involved in the Mercury but I think they should aim to keep it distinct from the BRITS and that once someone has been nominated once then that's it.
Same goes for Arctic Monkeys...they're household names, what are they doing on a shortlist for NEW music? Them and AW took up spaces that might have given a couple of acts good exposure.
