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2003 eamonn said: "More fucking BPB shite"

9/10 review in NME (plus good review for Zwan featuring Dave Pajo and Matt Sweeney who was a gent we got to talk to him last year in Tramore). Album of the week in the Independent. Bad review by the Wire but who cares....Great crack on the Drag City site they are collecting votes for a Best Of Palace/Palace Bros/Palace Songs/WIll Oldham compilation. This would be most stuff up until about 1998, about 110 songs, no Bonnie Price Billy stuff.

And now a mad thing. Watching the Late Late Show on Fri with me mother. It is absolutely shit but it's what she watches. And Coldplay were on it playing In My Place. But they were on only in November as well. Why would they be on an Irish chat show twice in a couple of months? I think maybe they had a show in the Point to plug last time but surely on a Friday evening they're are more killer PR spots than the Late Late? Anyway they were fairly ok, I couldn't tell if they were miming or not, it sounded like there were harmonies which were not being sung. But your heart would go out to them, trekking around, sellign this album to death - do they ever get the weekend off? I think it's gone over the million mark in the US (or maybe that is 'Parachutes') which is a huge achievment given how delighted people are when they sell 100000 there. Just to give you an idea of how shit the Late Late is, they had Michael Barrymoore on in his carefully orchestrated campaign to get back into the mainstream media (it kicks off in Ireland like oh so many other tours).

Listening to Badly Drawn Boy, must get the last album.....