Paul Weller 'Couldn't Wait To Leave Mercury Prize 2010'

Paul Weller has revealed that he “couldn't wait to get home” after he failed to win the Mercury Prize last week.

As we all know, the Jam  former star, was one of the favourites to get The Mercury Prize with his recent album 'Wake Up The Nation' , but eventually lost out to The xx.

In an interview, Weller revealed that he went home straight after the announcement was made so he could watch TV. “I'd been there all day, being old and miserable, I couldn't wait to get home,” he said. “I thought, I've had enough of this. I wasn't doing my upset diva bit, I just wanted to go home and watch telly."

Weller also admitted that he found it “hard to get excited” about the down-tempo sound of The xx's self-titled winning album. “It's not really my sort of thing. I'm not putting them down, just because they beat me,” he added.

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Peter Hook’s Hacienda Memoirs get the Boxset treatment

As we all remember, celebrated co-founder of New Order and Joy Division, Peter Hook released his critically acclaimed memoirs in 2009 titled The Haçienda: How Not To Run A Club. The memoirs detailed his sordid life as a rock star and the demise of his finances.

Now these memoirs turns into boxset, with only a few hundred copies of it being made available. Inside it you'll find signed sections of the book accompanied by unpublished material. It also houses a 10" record with one of Peter Hook's new tunes, 'The Viking'.

The design for the boxset has been the job of English designers Foruli who with the help of Hook completed it with a special art print.

It was easy to guess it would be highly prized and limited so here are the details:

There are only 400 available of the standard edition which retail at £300.

100 copies of the deluxe at £600 which can you believe contains an actual piece of the Hacienda bar top.

Finally there are two ultimate editions available, which include one of only six handmade custom FAC51 Hacienda bass guitars.

At the height of Hook's fame during the Hacienda days, the band were throwing all their royalties into the running of the club with only £20 left for each of the band at the end of the week. You can buy these beautiful boxsets right here. 

The Big Pink - 'Tapes'

“I think the songs are as good as anything out there. There are pop music melodies within that minimal production. And the best pop music for me has always been the stuff that the artist does on their own terms. Everything on the mix sounds like that. I think these guys are doing it for themselves and if people discover it then great.” Milo Cordell. 

Tracklisting:
1. GR†LLGR†LL - Slow Dancing
2. Love Distance - Move On The Rain
3. Gang Gang Dance - Ego War
4. Joker - Snake Eater
5. Active Child - Body Heat (So Far Away)
6. Henny Moan - Vreg Dreams (Little Slow Mix)
7. Sewn Leather - Smoke Ov The Pvnk
8. Balam Acab - See Birds
9. yusuf b - kiss the nite
10. ZVA - Nothing
11. No Bra - Minger (These New Puritans Remix)
12. jj - Let Go
13. Salem - Dirt
14. Light Asylum - Shallow Tears
15. The Big Pink - Velvet (BDG Remix By Gang Gang Dance)
16. Actress - Hubble
17. oOoOO - Mumbai
18. The xx - Fantasy
19. Horse Macgyver - Tetanus Wine