Am I the only person in the world that just doesn't get Anthony and the Johnsons? I was absolutely flabbergasted while watching the Mercury Music Prize and the second showing of his performance actually reduced me to pee-my-pants hysterics.
Please, please help me out here, if I am a misguided ignoramus, not down with the kids or generally a music buffoon, please explain it to me in terms I can understand why the deranged warbling of the school Goth with a voice like a muppet is supposed to enrapture me?
I wouldn't normally deign to comment on things musical, as it is really not my forte, but I feel vindicated by the comments from Jo Whiley and that long haired thing from NME. She said something along the lines of "we have played it on the radio and unfortunately the general public just don't seem to like it" and he said something along the lines of (and I paraphrase massively here) "it is an acquired taste that you have to work at, just give it a chance". What like olives?
Still at least Coldpay didn't get it. Every cloud….