Alright? A Very Sarcastic Person here. So I suppose you’re expecting me to pour cold water over this year’s Mercury nominees, aren’t you? Because that’s what you’d expect of someone totally sarcastic, wouldn’t you just? In fact, that’s what you’d expect from Vice isn’t it? Something disparaging about how the Mercury prize is as edgy and relevant as a grandmother made of cotton wool. And you’d sit back and feel oh so bloody superior in your shitty office job knowing that someone had conformed entirely to your narrow weave of prejudice. Then you’d lean over to your dumb-as-muck colleague and relate this, and the two of you would chortle heartily about how bloody good you are at reading between media lines, ha ha ha. Then you’d go back to fiddling with Microsoft Excel and wishing you were dead. Well screw you, I’m doing it anyway.
Sincerely,
A Very Sarcastic Person
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Posted on July 22nd, 2009 | 9 Comments
Tagged: Bat For Lashes, Florence and the Machine, Friendly Fires, Glasvegas, Kasabian, La Roux, Lisa Hannigan], Mercury prize, Speech Debelle, The Horrors, The Invisible
Glastonbury is a big messy event in the countryside which lots of people attend in order to watch some bands and be part of a national treasure. Going to Glastonbury is the fun equivalent of being one of Lady Di’s pallbearers. Like almost everything else in the musical calendar, everyone likes to claim it’s rubbish, but actually, provided you don’t have to watch Neil Young, it’s definitely more fun than all the anti-Glastonbury club nights people put on in London with hopeless bands.
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Posted on July 2nd, 2009 | 7 Comments
Tagged: Festivals, Florence and the Machine, Fucked Up, Glastonbury, Klaxons
Easter isn’t the sexiest of all the religious festivals. The eggs are cool, but other than Sufjan Stevens fans no-one over 14 actually wants or gets one. And as far as perks go, that’s it for Easter. It’s hardly Hanukkah’s eight days of gifts or Ramadan’s mega pre-date crash diet. Anyway, just as Norwich Union has swapped its saggy outmoded moniker for the hyper-global-fuck-fest-title of Aviva, Easter’s being rebranded (or reborn — perhaps a Jesus metaphor would have been better). This weekend, This Is Music and GASH! have come together to bring you an all-girl line-up Easter rave in Whitechapel. Read more »
Posted on April 7th, 2009 | No Comments
Tagged: Akiko, Florence and the Machine, GASH, PRE, screaming tea party, Shoreditch, The Big Pink, The Cocknbull Kid, This is Music, Trash Kit
According to every magazine/website/zeitgeist newsletter, there are a whole lot of exciting new bands you will be hearing more of this year. Hooray. According to general laws of statistics, each of them has a hypothetical propensity to kill. Wouldn’t it be great if one of them committed a murder at some point during 2009? Just think: Indie gossip would all be about CSI-style corpse decomposition periods and semen samples, or maybe more retro talk of candlesticks and lead pipes. With that in mind, we’re offering the music press the chance to get a jump on the game, by ranking 2009’s potential indie breakouts in terms of their murderous proclivities, using nothing more than Poirot-like little grey cells. Elementary findings follow. Read more »
Posted on January 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Tagged: Dan Black, Florence and the Machine, Hype, Kid Cudi, Lady GaGa, Little Boots, Murder, VV Brown, White Lies
