So who's going to win the Mercury music prize 2007? (4 Viewers)

[Mormon Nailer]

Ok then, tell me in what way Klaxons are the future of Music?? Seriously, I'm interested to know how anyone could think that. The most convincing argument I've heard so far is that they are 'a bit of fun'. That doesn't equate to the future of music.

I dont know about that. 2 drummers seemed to be a recurring theme of EP and shallow but fun seems to be where it's at.

 

[Stan Bowles]

I dont know about that. 2 drummers seemed to be a recurring theme of EP and shallow but fun seems to be where it's at.

I didn't even know the Klaxons had two drummers, shows how old and out of touch I am.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

I don't mind klaxons at all and I really dig their singles but they're so bad live.

Yeah I like their singles but never felt inclined to get their album. They seem like a singles band to me.
The Mercury Music Prize is as much a part of that self-congratulatory London cultural wankfest as the NME. The NME just gets the flak because they're a bit more juvenile. It's all horrible.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

I didn't even know the Klaxons had two drummers, shows how old and out of touch I am.

It's the new thing to notice two drummers on stage when you're in the audience. It separates the hip from the square.

 

[lympog]

I must be losing it then, as he seemed to be giving me a pitchfork to kill myself. So if he agreed with my statement he just wants me dead.

Fair enough, I would just like a bit more clarity.

!ninjaaaa

It's the new thing to notice two drummers on stage when you're in the audience. It separates the hip from the square.

groom are deadly by the way - i was front row centre at the begining

- leigh

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

who cares? why am i even writing this?

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

-leigh

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Why do the Klaxons remind me of Engine Alley?

 

[Lili Marlene]

'Klaxons' music is often supernatural and magic-realist in theme, as shown in a number of song titles and lyrical content. Examples of this are "As Above, So Below" (favourite saying of Aleister Crowley), "Atlantis to Interzone" (a William Burroughs reference), "Magick" (Crowley) and "Four Horsemen of 2012"/"Gravity's Rainbow" (Thomas Pynchon references). The original name of Klaxons comes from a line in the art text, The Futurist Manifesto. "Forgotten Works" also contains references and lines from Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar.'


ha!

Pat Benatar has an album called gravity's rainbow

 

[Pantone247]

I didn't even know the Klaxons had two drummers, shows how old and out of touch I am.

they didn't have two drummers, but they did have a tambourine on a backing track

gas

 

[Stereobaby]

ha ha ha, it's like Nathan Barley but in the real life



who ever keeps saying young knives were shit is just wrong, okay

lock this thread

I quite like Young Knives but they were fucking horrifying crap last night.

 

[broken arm]

he original name of Klaxons comes from a line in the art text, The Futurist Manifesto.

what was their original name??

 

[Lili Marlene]

eh....

I don't think it's meant that way

I was just laughing at someone on wikipedia trying to make them out to be amazing artists

 

[Space]

I liked the Skream remix of not over yet. Pure euphoria on Sunday night so it was.

 

[Pantone247]

I was just laughing at someone on wikipedia trying to make them out to be amazing artists

???

it just shows they lifted their ideas from old books

which is fair enough

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

Mercurians have such poor taste in music

 

[Yurn!]

oh and by the way Pantone, all weekend, with good reason, all i kept thinking was...

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[Lili Marlene]

???

it just shows they lifted their ideas from old books

which is fair enough

maybe, maybe..... but so do most bands and it's not mentioned on their wikipedia page

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

they wear it on their sleeves a lot more than most bands

 

[Lili Marlene]

if they had a grand vision or direction or something i'd be ok with it but it just seems to be references for the sake of references, to prove that they read books and like art