idiot.

Apart for Katie Mellua.

and thought "blimey, he's made it to the tabloids already?"

nearly 20000 people die in an earthquake in China.

World keeps spinning.

???

is not actually Pritchard's biggest Turner-related crime. His cover of Despair in the Departure Lounge makes me slightly suicidal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ejvHtL9Ro0

Afterwards, backstage, Pritchard strums a guitar and sings Arctic Monkeys’ Despair in the Departure Lounge. It’s the maudlin crystallisation of what it is to be on the road with a band, but with your thoughts elsewhere. Does he not enjoy touring?

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Before getting taxis to Little Tokyo, a Japanese restaurant, they rattle through the same Arctic Monkeys song Pritchard played the previous night. It’s an interesting choice. The respective bands are, in a way, two sides of the same coin when it comes to young, British, unit-shifting guitar pop. Their debut albums came out on the same day (January 23, 2006), both have lost bassists unsuited to the demands of indie stardom (the Arctic Monkeys’ Andy Nicholson and the Kooks’ Max Rafferty) and both frontmen have had relationships with easy-on-the-eye celebrities (in Pritchard’s case, a pre-fame stint with fellow BRIT School alumna Katie Melua and then the TV presenter Fearne Cotton, while Alex Turner is dating TV presenter Alexa Chung).

“I think we’re incredibly similar bands in a lot of ways,” says Pritchard, flitting between the green tea, saké and lager he ordered. “Very different lyrics, and musically quite different, but we’re similar in the [unconditional] way that people like us. We’re both young, both all about the songs and both about… just getting on with it. But Arctic Monkeys are treated like princes and held up as the new great iconic British band, while we’re almost giggled at.”

It’s how Donovan might have felt, stuck on the same circuit as Dylan in 1965. One with catchy tunes and a well-meaning groovy streak, the other more barbed and exotic, whose lyrics are fêted as poetry and songs held up as state-of-the-generation addresses. Has he met Turner? Does he nurture a songwriting rivalry?

“To be honest, every time I see Alex I’m always off my head,” he winces. “I really, really like him though. As a writer, I have massive respect for him.”

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3790127.ece?token=null&offset=0

even hurt if luke pritchard kicked you in the face.

Boss BL1- Multi-bland dynamic stripper.

'the kings of cool, The Kooks'

we re all doomed.