From: anthony.chapman3@dontspam.com 
  
 In message <2005091016361616807%bzangy@removethisbitgmailcom>, Jyoti 
 Mishra  writes 
 >Watching the awards made me feel like even more of a weirdo. All these 
 >records that people are spuming over and I didn't really like any of 
 >them. They weren't *bad,* just a bit... ummm? Not catchy? 
  
 I like the Antony & The Johnsons album a lot, and I had a feeling it 
 would win (although foolishly I didn't put any money on it).  But the 
 performance on the awards show I enjoyed the most was Polar Bear.  I 
 expected a Mercury-nominated jazz album to be muzak shite.  But it was 
 pretty wild actually. 
  
 Maximo Park wound me up enormously - I just couldn't believe all the 
 DEAD SERIOUS moves they were pulling, when they're playing infront of a 
 load of pissed up music biz slime, who have paid a grand per table to be 
 there.  Fucks sake, I wonder if you're that INTO IT when you play at 
 some 300 capacity venue in Northampton or wherever. 
  
 But... somebody please tell me.  The Go!Team.  What the fuck?  I picked 
 up the album after being told I'd love it about a hundred times.  What 
 did I hear?  Piss weak samples over piss weak beats, with some piss weak 
 vocals buried in the mix.  Saw them live supporting LCD Soundsystem and 
 Soulwax (who were both stunning), and they were embarrassing to watch - 
 it was like a big youth club jam.  The Mercury performance was a joke. 
 The reference by the singer to Memphis Industries "selling their souls" 
 for the band was surprisingly close to the truth - Sony now "own" them. 
  
 Antony & The Johnsons - if anything, it was probably the most 
 conventional record (in terms of structure) on the shortlist.  Torch 
 Songs / ballads, some with a light, jazzy backing.  It's the voice that 
 sets it apart. And I entirely understand it's not to everyone's taste. 
 But it seems churlish for people to get all haughty about Antony's 
 brit-credentials when rhyming-dictionary crap like The Kaiser Chiefs are 
 the favourites for a prize supposedly meant to celebrate diversity and 
 innovation, and Deacon-Blue-In-A-Tight-Indie-T-shirt session wanks like 
 Razorlight sell a lot of records. 
  
 -- 
 Anthony Chapman 
  
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