Hoorah!

Awesome!!!!

Rad. Hope they start up that studio/practice space they mentioned in the other article!

that's cool

Nice!

well deserved.

that's amazing!

is there a backlash yet?

well done, but.

kick arse

Wonder what they'll spend the dough on seeing as there's such a mull shortage on right now?

Sufficient funds.

GOOD.

siiiiick!

well a good percentage of the other nominees will be happy for Eddy Cuz, based on that other M&N article.

good on 'em

That's terrible. A travesty.

(I don't really think that, this thread just needed another opinion)

PERFECT!

very well earned indeed

Nice one.

zap me back in time a coupla minutes so i can state on the record:

i think either cut copy or the presets will win.

Shtick, image, look...whatever.... I'm talking about the judges' perception of ECSR. I know that ESCR don't have a 'marketing strategy' and the guys aren't being moulded into anything fake. I like their band.

I still don't get it. ECSR are the most uncharismatic band ever. I don't see how they can be tagged with having a ''look''. Three quarters of the band you wouldn't recognise if they served you at the K-Mart checkouts. Their music is terminally uncool. What 18 year old hipster remembers all of The Kinks' non-hits?

Aw, come on Frankie. Timewaster's an industry insider. He knows how it all works, man. He's met Pav and everything!

i like how timewaster presents opinions as facts. how can cut copy have made the best record of the year when it's totally unlistenable?

Shouldn't you be on a plane to Hawaii about now, rigid?

my post was to enimsay

I don't think that Cut Copy made the best record of the year. I just think it was the best record from the nominated shortlist.

ESCR do not have a 'look'. But that IS their 'look'.

Y'know what I mean? Every popular band has an image, intentionally or not. ESCR look like totally regular guys that you would meet at the pub. That's their image, although it's unintended. And obviously the critics like it, because it's so Aussie and unpretentious.

i know what you mean. it's also true that no matter how sick and tired you get of people creating images and talking about images and you really just want to put all that to the side and be in a band with no image and play music, the first thing image obsessed people do is turn around and say, ''nice image, people like that image.'' it's like the thief who doesn't trust anyone.

I'm not obsessed with image. Have you met me? I look like a cross between Laurie Oakes and a dead beached whale.

I respect bands who don't intentionally craft their image, like Evermore, Jet or The Galvatrons.

it wasn't necessarily aimed at you, it's a universal truth.

but we've met, so it could've been aimed at you.

Have you met me? I look like a cross between Laurie Oakes and a dead beached whale.

i'd like to see that cruising around on a skateboard

contrived or not ECSR do have an ''image'' ..... the lead singer's Peter Garrett moves in his Michael Jackson gloves

anyways well done to the band, i hope the $30k goes a long way

OK, I'm exaggerating. I'm not fat. I look like a cross between the Pauline Hanson lookalike's arse and a plate of dog food.

So I have met 'Rigid'. Hmmmm.....I'm thinking about all the people who hate me, wondering who you might be...

i don't think rigid would even be bothered to hate you, he has plenty of more pressing concerns..... but if forced i'd take an educated guess that he met you in your previous musical guise

hey man i don't hate anyone. i saw your old band play once and yet i gave your new band it's first gig ever. for that, i apologise to the australian public.

(at least i think that's the case. i could be wrong.)

Ahhhh, I know!

I probably met RIgid when I was touring with the Injectors. Those were the days... the fame, the appearances on 'Hey Hey', the time that I bumjacked Jennifer Keyte and she had to discretely visit the hospital.

Then I decided to use my real name, Mark Lizotte. But the fans never came! So it's back to Diesel for me. Good thing that Gudinski has stuck with me, even though my hair hasn't....

Just heard this playing in JayJays.
Hmmm.....