Mercury Music Prize 2008 tittle-tattle aggregator

Not as easy as it looks, is it?

In next week's Independent, Swashy Trainee combs London's INFAMOUS Berwick Street in an attempt to buy ANY of the tunes INFAMOUS "rap" DJ Tim Westwood is currently playing on his INFAMOUS Radio 1 show for less than £30 EACH.

the first real-life LZBC meet-up should probably occur at the Bring It On re-release launch party

we gotta make sure matt dc doesn't turn up and pull some IRL moderation shit on us like he did the other night

Did he really? How distasteful.

In next week's Independent, Eazy Libra attempts to persuade INFAMOUS internet music message board contributor Geir Hongro to like any of the 12 shortlisted albums.

the first real-life LZBC meet-up should probably occur at the Bring It On re-release launch party

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we gotta make sure matt dc doesn't turn up and pull some IRL moderation shit on us like he did the other night

Serves you right you saddo!

yeah i was told to stop saying "LBZC" and then the lex blanked me, it was gr8 :D hey pash it's not rl beef we're in the business of jestin'

oops i just typed "LZBC" fukkin' w/ the program '08

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Top version of that tune on 'Not one wink 'til Hammersmith'

Jagz watch out, Lex will call for moderation and stricken records for bringing the outside into this thread.

Must. Stop. Picking. Scab.

This thread won't have ticked off all the ILX i-spies till it's locked.

What you do mean by "i-spies," Patrick?

I meant it won't have completed everything in the I-Spy Book of ILM Threads but I wrote it in a completely stupid manner cuz I'd been drinking.

Carlin incomprehension - 30 points

What's this thread lacking from the I-Spy Book of ILM Threads then?

Pipecock
200 post clusterfuck about minor differences between etiquette in America and the UK
Steely Dan

Chaki's drunken rant

Parody thread

Pato zing about Dom and scarves/chubby girls

Hongrominification

shut-in i-spy rubes

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Alison Houston

news just in :

DROWNED IN SOUND ANOUNCE THEIR ALTERNATIVE TO THE MERCURY PRIZE.

Widely regarded as Europe's most influential new music site with over 350,000 unique users a month, DrownedinSound.com (DiS) has long enjoyed a reputation for championing the best in new music.

And after one of those brilliant 'why didn't we think of this sooner?' moments, it has decided to go head to head with the Nationwide Mercury Prize and run its own reader-voted Pluto Prize. Why? Because DiS feels that there are some glaring omissions on the Mercury list this year, and wants these albums to be recognised as some of the best British releases of the last 12 months.

DiS has selected 12 albums from UK acts it feels are Really Quite Special; all have been celebrated by DiS writers and readers alike. All the nominations were released in the same time frame used by the Mercury Prize and the only bands excluded from inclusion are those already up for this year's Mercury (so Radiohead and British Sea Power miss the Pluto cut).

Registered DiS users are invited to vote for one of the below-listed albums. Voting closes on September 8 with the winner of the inaugural Pluto Prize announced on September 9, the same day as the Mercury winner.

PLUTO PRIZE NOMINATIONS:

The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
Foals - Antidotes (Transgressive)
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (ATP)
Future of the Left - Curses (Too Pure)
PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island)
Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light (Best Before)
M.I.A - Kala (XL)
Mystery Jets - Twenty One (sixsevennine)
Portishead - Third (Island)
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (Angular)
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto (Domino)
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)

http://www.drownedinsound.com/pluto

How will Dom react to the omission of HMHB?

we await the zing.

oh, and just when and why did 679 recordings become sixsevennine ?
was that a clever clever accounting/debt avoidance issue, or just a simple open case of rebranding ?

679 never recovered from not signing the Kersal Massive

oh, and just when and why did 679 recordings become sixsevennine ?
was that a clever clever accounting/debt avoidance issue, or just a simple open case of rebranding ?

-- mark e, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:39

It actually didn't: DiS got it wrong. Earlier this year it became sixsevenine, guaranteed to fuck up any potential googlers (probably).

Foals excepted, this is quite a fun list.

It changed to sixsevenine when it was bought out by a major.

i thought it was always a Sony (?) imprint?

"Warner Music has acquired 679 Recordings, home to British urban acts The Streets and Kano plus alt-rock band Mystery Jets, for an undisclosed sum.

The label becomes a wholly-owned division of Atlantic Records U.K.; founder Nick Worthington remains as managing director, reporting to Warner Music Europe president John Reid and Atlantic Records U.K. president Max Lousada. The label's staff will re-locate to Atlantic's offices in Kensington, London.

The label is also changing its name to Sixsevenine, dropping the 'Recordings' tag in recognition of an increasing focus on activities beyond recorded music.

Warner Music U.K. previously had a stake in the label, which was launched in 2001. Other acts which have released material on 679 include the Futureheads, King Creosote, Death From Above 1979 and Plan B. The label has been an early proponent of forming new business models with artists, recently forging partnerships with Cut Off Your Hands and The Rifles across an expanded range of rights and revenue streams."

It really is quite frustrating that the only publication that would big up Youthmovies (DiS) are actually the folx who released their record, and so don't, out of a sense of fair play (they didn't even review it).

For me it's between The Bug, PJ, PHead, M.I.A. and Wyatt. Fuck Buttons are interesting but I'm not fully convinced yet.

i am, but it's a very grimly-esque furrow they plough. i'm actually quite surprised so many other people like them at all.

Failure to sell Elisa Bray the Mercury CDs for under £30 seems to have been the last straw and it's gone into administration this afternoon.

Sorry, insert "for Sister Ray" somewhere in that sentence.

Really? Link please.

I looked at their website and they seem to think they've been going since 1981 as well, as opposed to the 1989 I remember them actually starting up. Unless they had a shop in Fort William or something.

If they have gone under they've only got themselves to blame; their stock has diminished dramatically over the last couple of months and their concept of stock control in general seems to have been drafted by Fotherington-Thomas, i.e. lots of DVDs, the same old discounted crap and nothing new or different.

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1035010&c=1

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10-point penalty, demotion to Oxford Street league?

Jude Rogers is back!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/aug/08/popandrock

"It's been quite a week for sex, music and me. Take last weekend. There I was at the Big Chill festival, hot-browed and clammy-palmed, watching Leonard Cohen sing erotically about how he "moved in you" as he sang Hallelujah. Then, right on cue, my phone bleeped with saucy news from the UK singles charts."

OK, so that's last weekend. And moving on, to some other examples ... nah. There aren't any more. She forgets that appalling opening line, and just talks about a current pop star.

Christ, read it again:

"It's been quite a week for sex, music and me."
!?!

Also note that she surely shouldn't have had her mobile on while at a concert, which one imagines was a quite hushed and reverential affair.

Probably not hushed and reverential at the Big Chill festival. Or maybe it is, I've only ever been to Leeds.

"saucy" in 2008.

"I've heard this perky new pops disc from young Katy Perry which is going towards the top of the hit parade, and oh my sainted aunt, it is a trifle blue."

First para redolent of onetime Melody Maker 'funny page' staple Derek Kent

"funny" page, morelike

Yes, Derek Kent. But even he wouldn't have written the first line.

The funny page was, I think, funny, though that particular (1990s?) column was never really to my taste.

Elbow win, YEAH!

independent.co.uk

One can only imagine the bitterness with which the inconstant Island and V2 executives greeted the news this morning that an overnight sales increase of some 260 per cent had already shunted The Seldom Seen Kid to the top of Amazon's sales chart.

Johnny Foreigner won the DiS Pluto Prize, with is the sort of comically irrelevant Camden indie album only DiS readers could consider the best of the year.