The Horrors dismiss 'boyband' rumours

cos they have a really commercial sound dont they?

the rumours stem from their image, which clearly is a concious thing. it depends how you define indie, the average enemy/fratellis listening, NME reading 'indie type person' would not like the horrors music, nor the way they dress.

what you just said it's absolute bollocks. And I think you're well aware of it.

first against the wall when the doucheocracy rolls into town

Jazz funk is awesome
At least it wasnt a ska band (*see The Bravery)

LOL etc.

Reminds me of Coachwhips!

Have you no eyes, boy?!

This is brilliantly true I reckon, well the £10K NME thing I can believe!

How the NME's books balanced that week. Obviously 10k is about a third of the week's takings in it's current state, but then how much would they have lost by putting such a wank band on the cover without any gratuitous shots of them drinking beer backstage on the inside?

then a lot of people are getting/have been fired. They're really not a commercial success on anything like a level expected of boyband businesses.

They're just an unusual indie band with a very defined look and style. Do you honestly think Chris Cunningham would have come out of music vid retirement to do 'Sheena is a Parasite' if they were corporates?

I haven't bothered getting their album but I have a couple of EPs from before. Fun stuff. Might pick up the album later, actually, seeing as it's Halloween and I'm not feeling it yet.

like they are nice looking and stuff but who actaully cares. and i love their clothes but id rather go see them or spazz to their music.
and also i remember when they first first first played and stuff and it all happened pretty quickly for them etc etc but they are clearly not manufactured, if they were there would be playings of them on xfm or radio 1 or something horridd and also their album would have adverts during hollyoaks or something.
all the 'indie' kids at college would love them, and a fair few do since its seevic but people really over react with them.

gah! thats like an essay...sorry

to a certain degree they get paid royalties if they sign up with the right agencies and so on.
But also, you think all those tracks Jo Whiley etc play are chosen by the dj? They're told what to play by a producer, and the tracks from artists on the biggest labels with the most amount of cash to give to the station will be played more times.
It works the same in shops too, the music piped out is played a certain amount of times a day depending on how much the label has paid to have them on the playlist.