Congratulations to The XX on a richly deserved Mercury Music Prize win - and credit to the judges for acknowledging them as the rightful victors. Three more unassuming winners you could hardly hope to meet, though - the acceptance speech and subsequent interview with Lauren Laverne was painful.
The Prize is now sponsored by Barclaycard, so it gives me great pleasure to say: seeing the smile wiped off the faces of Paul Weller and Mumford & Sons = priceless...
(More on The XX to come, incidentally, with a write-up of the Saturday at Glastonbury.)
Um, that's Mastercard...
ReplyDeleteGah. Oh well, I'll console myself with the thought of Paul Weller's disappointed face and the Mumford boys crying into their orange squash.
ReplyDeleteI would have preferred Foals, but I expected the XX would win, and I'm happy with it.
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