While Klaxons are celebrating this morning after scooping the annual Mercury Prize, and the £20,000 that comes with it, one British band is less than bothered by the award.
Tom Clarke - frontman of Coventry band The Enemy - told something called Orange World (presumably something to do with those mobile phone people):
"I don't give a shit about them. I really couldn't be arsed what a bunch of journalists decide who should win an award, when you've got awards that are voted for by people then fair play because they're the people that matter.
"They're the people that go out and buy albums and they're the people that count at the end of the day."
And he might have a point, as The Enemy's We'll Live And Die In These Towns album made number one earlier this summer, while Klaxons' Myths Of The Near Future could only reach number two. If that can be considered a point. Do you care? Oh, forget about it...
Surely jorurnalists ARE people?
so what exactly is he talking about?
Why...
...make a comment on something that you "don't give a shit" about, Mr Clarke? You've obviously got some hang up about it...
Who cares about who wins the Mercurys anyway?
Why?
Presumably because someone asked them.
Don't be silly
Journalists aren't people!
Awards voted for by a panel
= pretty crap
Awards voted for by the general public
= Godawful
So they're wrong.
exactly
since when did public popularity equal artistic merit?
I guess
he actually meant that having artistic merits doesn't pay the bills
wow
they really are a band of the people aren't they?
So
Does that mean if they had been nominated they would have said 'no thanks' and not turned up? I think not.
They're just whining
cuz theyre shitty little album didnt make the list
Klaxons
will be putting that £20000 towards their first castle.
but but but
sainsburys is selling the klaxons album for three quid, well my local is, I can't think of anything more populist and 'for the people' than allowing them to stock up on fruit, veg, sunny D AND a klaxons cd?
But...
What do the Enemy think of Led Zep reforming? That's the big question.
i would LOVE IT if they did this
they could then hold a freking PARTAY in their castle and i would totally go.
I hate the Klaxons Music
I love Castles
That "Wolverine" one is a pretty good DJ too.
The Enemy
...could do the catering for the day, working as servants in the castle kitchen.
I'd go, as long as they didn't get near the stage.
crap band in slagging off another crap band shocker
Man imagine if the awards involved a castle
also
Klaxons are more creative and interesting then you guys, and Klaxons are a scene band. When people say that a scene band are more interesting and creative then you then you gots problems.... not to mention Klaxons started a fashion (sure it sucks) where as The Enemy are johnny come lately's to a genre that is more boring then my right knee.
The people?
So the only albums worthy of awards are the really popular ones?
YES!
god, haven't you listened to anything they've been saying?!?!?
The Enemy
are shit and everything they say is shit.
If The Enemy get nominated for the award in future
1) I bet they'll keep to their principled stance and say they're not interested... and
2) I may possibly kill myself.
They'll have fucked off by next year...
...hopefully.
That's their Brits nomination secured then.
the enemy say everything they dont win or cant go to is shit
i swear every week there is a new comment by the enemy saying something new is shit
there's a probability then
that when they release their second album, he'll say it's shit, and not many people would disagree.
Hmm
Didn't the enema say something like the public are idiots for buying music by X-factorers a little while ago? I think they may even be more stupid than Kasabian.
Own worst enemy..
Are the enemy actually the twang as well ? I'm surprised no one else has noticed.. Twenemy, Ewang all the fecking same really innit..
I find it very hard to differentiate between the two
whyohwhyohwhy
This guy is full of opinions isn't he. I must say i love being talked down to by an teenager who thinks Britain is shit (no, its just you are from Coventry) and who claims to have grafted to get where he is because he once had to clean the toilets in a shoe shop. Now the bitter little hobbit fuck is realising that he has no credibility because he couldn't look further than the magazine on his bedroom floor for his band's name and venture further than his older brother's oasis and kasabian CDs for inspiration.
Please go away Tom.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion
This guys opinion is stupid, though.
I dunno,
a lot of bands take a populist stance; not many of them are as catchy and fun as The Enemy. So fair play to them.
little kid...
he seems so pissed off with everything in the world. There's a pic and interview in this weeks NME (i bought it for first time in ages, ok!). He barely comes up to Mr Barat's shoulder and he has so much attitude (and I'm talking Vicky Pollard style attitude)...
and how can he slag of journos when the hype surrounding his band is based almost soley on blooming NME...
....jeez, what a cockface
when i had the displeasure of seeing the enemy...
they handed out pamphlets!