Legendary Scottish music mogul and promoter Alan McGee has called for the influential Brit Awards to be scrapped. Somewhat akin to Australia’s ARIA Awards, they awards celebrate the best British releases of the year in an annual televised industry cocaine and champagne piss-up which can make or break bands. Calling the awards an ‘embarrassment’, the legendary founder of Creation Records told Scotland’s nationalist Daily Record newspaper that “They should get rid of the Brits and start again with 20 music journalists who actually care about music getting together, instead of a bunch of self-interested record company people who just vote for their own acts.” (Sounds just like the ARIAs to us).
He also reserved his particular brand of piss and vinegar for Coldplay, who he once infamously described as ‘making music for bed wetters’. He said of the band, who are up for some spurious let’s-make-up-an-award-to-make-them-turn-up award – ‘Best Album of the last 30 Years for A Rush Of Blood To The Head’: “Coldplay are a dilution of a dilution of a dilution. Chris Martin makes me want to eat someone else’s earwax rather than listen to his records.”
McGee, who signed the Jesus & Mary Chain, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Oasis to Creation, has never been shy about making his thoughts known, POSTING ON THE INTERNERD IN CAPS – and while teetotal these days – was renowned for his proclivity for cocaine, ecstasy, speed and bourbon during the 80s and 90s.
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