Odds & Ends for 4th August 2009
The Prodigy have been damming of the Mercury Prize. An artist attacking a music award? Liam Howlett, present at last night’s Kerrang Awards, said to BBC 6music: “It’s got nothing to do with the public. It’s to do with a panel of people that always opt for the most obscure thing.” He also bemoaned the fact that The Prodigy wasn’t nominated for this year’s prize and the fact that dance music is being ignored in the shortlist. Seems like someone still has sour grapes over losing to M People in 1994…
In Matt Bellamy-is-talking-nonsense-news, the lead singer of Muse is starting to hit the ground running with his pre-album interviews for the band’s forthcoming LP, The Resistance. Talking to Zane Lowe at their studio bunker in Lake Como, Italy, he says:
When I read it [George Orwell's 1984] this time I was much more taken with the love story. I read once in school about 15 years ago it was all about the politics. But when I read it this time I was much more taken with the love story in the book between Juliette and Winston. In the early years I was confused about what my emotions were trying to express. As I said, being in England or seeing what’s going on in England has defined it as being a lot more direct and a lot more down to earth. I think the first song [Uprising] sums up how a lot of people feel and it’s that we need change.
Finally, Jarvis Cocker has written three songs for Get Him To The Greek, a spin off of 2007 comedy film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, starring Russel Brand. Cocker himself says the songs are “rather silly, but it’s a silly film.”
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 by Max
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