ELBOW WINS MERCURY PRIZE!AMERICANS HAVE NO IDEA WHO ELBOW ARE, NOR WHAT THAT PRIZE IS, OR REALLY HOW TO EVEN SPELL, ANYMOREZ!
No, seriously, sorta-known in the UK band Elbow won the "prestigious" Mercury Music Prize yesterday, which gets them about 20,000 pounds, a curry and packet of McVitie's Hobnobs.
This prize is kind of a curse, as previous winners (Gomez, e.g., or Suede (mk1), and, er, Roni Size) all tend to quickly fly apart at about 1000 mph. Still, nice to see some recognition for a band that does its own thing to a fault, and is fronted by a guy who tends toward a sort of Mario Batali-ish body type.
AND, the preview for Burn After Reading was chock full o' their lead single "Grounds for Divorce" from their "prize-winning" LP:
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