Aug 8, 2008 • 1 min read

Burial's real name revealed as Will Bevan

CMU has found Will Bevan's middle name is Emmanuel, while The Sun's Gordon Smart now says the campaign to unmask dubstep producer Burial is pointless.

Because you just can't unmask anonymous producers enough, we thought we should keep the whole 'Burial's identify revealed' story going by informing you that we have discovered that Will Bevan's middle name is Emmanuel (thanks to a reader cleverly looking up his publishing details).

We should probably stop with this story now, though. The Sun's Gordon Smart, who, you might remember, launched a campaign to discover the identity of the dubstep producer, now says that the whole thing's stupid. He wrote in his 'Bizarre' column yesterday: "I hadn't heard of Burial before his [Mercury] nomination. I've now listened to him and love his stuff. Isn't that the point of music?"

I still reckon it's Bono, though.

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