Again...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/26/popandrock3
"Dressed from head to toe in black, with a store of glowering songs about murder, kidnappings, mental illness and funerals,
White Lies are the latest pretenders to Joy Division's gloom-pop throne. And, because the well-spoken Chiswick trio drape their dark, literate tales around skyscraping hooks and galloping, radio-friendly choruses, they are definite contenders for big-league success in 2009.
When the band signed to the Universal offshoot Fiction in March following a classic A&R scrum, the label's managing director, Jim Chancellor, declared himself to be "over the f***ing moon". Nothing the band have done since will have dampened his enthusiasm.
They have impressed on Later ... With Jools Holland, played several well-received festival slots, found their way on to Radio 1's daytime playlist
and had Mark Ronson, Nick Cave (no relation to Charles)
and Morrissey turn up to see them live."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/18/grahamgreene.davidcameron
"It's strange to be the same age, and to share similar tastes to the probable next prime minister – the inexorable march of time and all that.
Although never a
n avid Smiths fan, I admire Morrissey's lyrics … and Boz Boorer's guitar playing, while getting the New York Dolls back together for Meltdown deserves a knighthood in itself, which he'll probably soon get. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/sep/04/whyrecordsshouldfacethevi
"Morrissey was right in some regards, though - we should smash the turntables, hang the DJs and make bonfires of the scratchy crap they worship in a mass abandonment of life-cluttering, natural resource-wasting, soul-restraining, spirit-encumbering, planet-raping, petite-bourgeois "stuff"."