David Bowie didn't win the Mercury Award prize last night.
Held here in the UK and sponsored by that house of cultural importance 'A Bank' (no they're not getting their effin' name mentioned), the awards winner usually goes on to be not as important as the selectors would like to think.
This expensive piece of inflated music confectionery with it's preening and redundant TV presenters puffing themselves up with the media's insistence that "with the CD sales falling drastically the Mercury becomes even more important", although in reality they're even more irrelevant for the same reason.
Bowie, not at the ceremonial glad hand, did not send his kind regards but a rather frightening portrayal of himself in his new video. Having made the video in his office (lavatory) over the weekend without "celebrity guests or flashy production"
David then declared that "he thought the Mercury's would be the best place to showcase it".
Well quite. Our thoughts exactly Mr Bowie.. here it is and don't frighten the kids with it.
Thursday, 31 October 2013
scary monster at the mercury awards
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