Ricky Wilson imposes trumpet ban on Mark Ronson
It was officially the start of the summer festival season this weekend. The crowds were out, the sun was blazing, libations were flowing and queues for the coconut shy were halfway round the field. Yes, the Marlow Town Festival and Regatta was a wonderful success once again and everyone in attendance won't forget it in a hurry.
Anyway, on to the Isle of Wight festival, a do that seems to be slowly claiming the title of Official Curtain Raiser to the season. Proof, if any were needed, comes from the fact that Bizarre's Smart Gordon, Team 3am and Kim Dawson of Kim Dawson's Playlist give over their pages to the fest this morning.
There are, it has to be said, some similarities to the coverage. Each hack, for example, has an interview with Ricky Wilson. Being the gregarious guy he is, Wilson has a different tale for each of them: he tells Smart Gordon he's banned Mark Ronson, who's producing the new Kaiser Chief's album, from using any of his trademark trumpets; he tells 3am that the only time he's experienced onstage nerves was when giving a best man's speech; and he tells Sarah Louise James (Kim Dawson's No 2 dontchaknow) that he was anxious about headlining on Friday night as it was Friday 13. Think we know who got the duffest anecdote there.
Across each of the pages, there's also coverage of the Sex Pistols. The old lags headlined on Saturday night and, by most accounts, blew the roof off the mother. They also got their bellies out. Which was less stimulating. Both Smarto and the Playlist run with the line that, having been reinvigorated by playing live, the group now intend to get back in the studio and, in the words of Sarah Louise James, "are about to make a follow-up to the groundbreaking Never Mind The Bollocks album a staggering 30 years later". Staggering, being the operative word.
Finally from the Isle of Wight, props must go to the journalist who asked Abi Harding from the Zutons (whose far from non-photogenic mug gets on all this morning's pages) whether the band would be playing "their cover of Amy Winehouse's Valerie" during their set. "Yes, we probably will," said Harding with a degree of politeness not necessarily appropriate to the situation.
Ever since he installed the patented BorrellGob 2.0 software into his mouth, chief Kook Luke Pritchard can't help but make cocky pronouncements on demand. In the past few weeks, former student of the performing arts Pritchard has railed against former school-pal Lily Allen and declared himself a martyr for his alma mater the Brit school. Today, he has a willing pop at Arctic Monkeys for simply not being as good as his band.
Smart Gordon reports that Pritchard, when asked about the Kooks' progress in America, replied: "It's really going great over there. Radio is really picking up on the album. Arctic Monkeys have just died over there. They were huge for their first album but it hasn't happened with the second one."
A totally unneccessary dig there, and it seems like BorrellGob 2.0 is driving Luke to ever further extremes of mouthiness. How long before it turns on its own inventor and starts calling Razorlight a bunch of dolled-up bores?
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