by Paul Sorrenti
Ricky Wilson, AKA King of the Dicks, has declared that his band, Kaiser Chiefs, are ‘the band that most music fans would see as their (Oasis’) successor’.
Now, this makes him a prick for a number of reasons:
1) It’s obviously bull-shit.
2) Who does he mean when he says ‘most music fans’? Have you ever met anyone who isn’t a fan of music? Everyone who ever existed is a fan of music and hecklerspray knows a few of them: not one has ever claimed Kaiser Chiefs are the successors of Oasis. Only Ricky.
3) He’s obviously only doing it in the vain hope that Noel will retaliate, on the off-chance it could turn into a war like the Blur/Oasis feud of old, like he tried to start with the Arctic Monkey’s, which of course failed spectacularly, what with Kaiser Chiefs not being fit to lick either of their comparatively messianic assholes.
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by Paul Sorrenti
Alex James, the Hugh Grant-haired, bass playing, cheese-making lovey of Brit Pop superstars Blur (the pretty one who pursed his lips in every video) has re-sparked rumours of Blur reuniting.
True, this is perhaps the twenty-seventh time he personally has sparked the rumours of Blur reuniting and, true, it’ll almost certainly be as fruitless as the rest of them but still; anything to make people realise the Kaiser Chiefs are nothing but an insulting pretender to their throne is worth commenting on.
It’s been five years since they released Think Tank; a kind of ‘half-good, half-wanky’ take on modern culture (a feeling encapsulated perfectly by the usage of a Banksy painting on the front cover – the King of ‘half-good, half-wanky’). Since then the Blur boys have all taken their own unique path.
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