So I hardly ever really watch TV these days, C4 news and Newsnight (incidentally the new 4+1 station where C4 news is on at 8 is brilliant) occasionally something with some cooking in it or some trash on a Saturday evening but normally it’s a DVD box set or a film or something. Last night I watched the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize (I love the fossilised trace of the old telco preserved in the name, maybe if it gets a new sponsor it will be something like the Microsoft Nationwide Mercury Music Prize). Anyway, it was a bit rubbish, I didn’t really like any of the bands, though I was surprised to find myself warming to Young Knives in their nice suits and Dizzy not at his best is still great. I’d forgotten how bad an interviewer Jo Wiley is. Jools Holland constantly emphasising what a great voice Amy Winehouse has in order to detract from potential tabloid nonsense was really funny though.
Not sure who I’d prefer to have been nominated. All my favourite records of the last year are by foreigners.
And then Neil said:
Klaxons good choice as winners, d’you think?
And then tom said:nah, they’re shit.
And then Neil said:I think I agree, although I have a soft spot for that Golden Skans song…
And then lish said:I am blissfully unaware of the music of The Klaxons!
How refreshing after six years of pop hell.
I quite like that “um-ber-ella-ella-ella-ey-ey” number though.
Catchy tune.
Did Asobi Seksu win anything?
And then tom said:yeah I like unbArelAH-hey-ey-ey too, her single before that one’s good too, i saw it on TMF a couple of weeks back, it’s about cars or something.
And then nick talbot said:All my favourite records of the last year are by Whitehouse.
Amy Whitehouse.
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