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

[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.