Grown Up Gossip & Internet Villainy
As you may have noticed we've thrown ourselves into festival season like nobody?s business this summer.
We’ve already had some great weekends and it’s still so early!? If you still haven’t decided where to go this summer, then please allow us to make some recommendations! So what's in store for July then?
Apart from shouting ‘bollocks’ in a field and hoping everyone will join in, as opposed to bricking your tent to death…
Tonight sees the annual Mercury Music Prize trundling into view, hauling its mighty self worth with it. Bands will be dribbled over and invariably drowned out to the sound of a room congratulating itself with thunderous back-slaps. Jools Holland will probably join-in with some faux honky tonk piano.
And weirdly, the bookies favourite for a win tonight is octogenarian Paul Weller, with his album ‘Wake Up The Nation’.
You can see what we thought of that album, and indeed, all the other nominees at this predictably dismissive article here.
The Mercury Music Prize is a press junket with feelings. While bozos get plastered and toot chong from toilet cisterns, pinning lackeys against walls with their feeble erections, a panel of judges all pat each other on the back discussing albums that Really Mean It Man, as opposed to those that sold loads of copies that Didn’t Mean It Man.
And, as ever, ‘musical creativity and excellence’ is supposedly highlighted by the predictable 12 Albums of the Year shortlisted for the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize. And they’ve been announced today!
Aren’t you excited?
