Mercury Rave / September 5 2007
I just don’t get the Klaxons (or is it Klaxons), the south London band that last night won the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize for their album Myths of the Near Future.
I have never understood the ‘new rave’ tag that has been used to describe them. Never having been a fan of rave music originally, perhaps I am missing the point. (As usual – Music Crit Ed.)
I suppose their songs are accomplished and catchy enough but, to me, they hardly fit the ‘innovative and forward-thinking’ description that the judges were apparently looking for.
It was gratifying to see Amy Winehouse (the person who most people thought was going to win the £20,000 prize) perform at the ceremony though. Her album was deemed too ‘retro’ – whatever that means in these post-modern times – to have any merit, but the fact that she made an appearance at all, against expectations, underlines the way in which the tabloid press in this country can sometimes get it so spectacularly wrong.
And, as well as stealing Winehouse’s prize from under her nose, the Klaxons also proved that they could out-drink her too. The band were set to be interviewed on BBC News 24 at 8.30am BST, but turned up at the studio still to drunk to appear.
Good to see the new-ravers demonstrating that rock’n’roll is not dead – even if they are a bunch of boring toffs.
Filed under Bands / Drinking / Mercury Music Prize / Music / Music Critisism / Rehab / Rock'n'Roll Excess / Song Writing
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2 comments on “Mercury Rave”
Graham Boffey / September 8th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I love Amy Winehouse.
Klaxons, you are gits.
Napoleon Fantastic / September 8th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Posh gits.
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