About a year ago or something trailblazing hipster guru Nick T recomended Hot Chip. I finally got their recent album the other day only to find today that they’ve been nominated for the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize (I don’t really have much time for the prize but I like the bizzare stacking of sponsors, Mercury telecoms obviously not defunct sitting there like a fossil, providing the brand with herritage even though they no loger provide cheap international calls advertised by the also defunct Harry Enfield. where was I? Oh yeah that’s right … ) so now it seems like I’m into them because they’ve been stamped with the authority of people like Malcolm Mclaren and Phats and Small or whoever the judging panel are this year. I don’t know why I should care about this but I do seem to. Latent indie snobbery the pop psychologist might say.

In reality Simon Reynolds was the one who reminded that I’d been meaning to check them out, not personally I just read his website. He also reminded me of Woebot, and specifically this post which has lots of pictures which are the kind of thing I like on the internet, not too many words please I tire easily.

So to summarise…
Hot Chip: Very good.
Simon Reynolds: Written a good book or two (though I’ve never read a whole one).
Junior Boys: Tonight.