Contrast. Not only is it a feature on your telly, it’s also an important part of any music show. You can take a rampaging blues-rock monster, a skinny indie kid and a hard-bitten gangsta rap type fellow and there you have it; differences highlighted.
Later with Jools Holland this weekend tried another, very different tack; they booked one act which was great and one which was a turgid pile of trying-too-hard wank.
But unlike the Pope and Angus Young, we are not infallible, so we’ll let you make your mind up yourself! First up is Bat for Lashes with ‘Daniel’, followed by Hockey with ‘Song Away’.
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Hockey were atrocious. Beyond evil.
Look, I’m not one to judge, but….
TERRIBLE name.
They looked like cnuts.
At least MGMT are talented.
christ, I read an interview with these fuckers yesterday. Apparently they met at a bohemian college in california where you can make up your own degree. Sorry, I thought that was called the internets?? here you go hockey, have first class honours in bad pastiche of the strokes, and talking out your anuses.
Oh, and they are happy to be called hippies.