The Lex 20 Pence Indie Prize: THE SHORTLIST

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

After much deliberation the shortlist for The Lex 20p Indie Prize has been announced:

The Automatic
Camera Obscura
The Feeling
The Guillemots
Kasabian
The Kooks
Lily Allen
The Pipettes
Test Icicles
The Young Knives

All of these acts* have been nominated BY POPTIMISTS for their vital contributions to INDIE over the last 12 months. Let the debate commence!

Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I remember when one of their sisters/girlfriends/mums/some sort of female connection person rang into Zane Lowe to correct that error. Thank god my radio's stopped working so I've stopped listening to that show.

Anyway. The Young Knives are bloody good, a bit like We Are Scientists only from this side of the pond, aren't they?

[mippy.livejournal.com]

TBH, people who make a big thing out of that kind of thing (see also: Pixies, Longpigs) are just showing off. But I have been irked enough by it today to make the point. Stop getting indie wrong!

The Young Knives are more village fete than We Are Scientists. I like them if only for that little 'Tall tales, creeps and whii-spers' in, um, that song of theirs. For all their quirk there's a bit of FM radio pop in there.