Feb 9, 2006 • 1 min read

Mystery Jets hate Hard-Fi

Mystery Jets have criticised Hard-Fi as superficial and bland in comments reported by Gigwise, with singer Blaine Harrison calling them the anti-Hard-Fi.

Which is a shame, because we here at CMU love Mystery Jets and Hard-Fi, so I'm afraid we'll have to sit on the fence on this one. Anyway, according to Gigwise, Will Mystery Jets said of Hard-Fi: "They're superficial. He actually sings about things that Arctic Monkeys do but they do it in a way that's very meaningful, whereas Hard-Fi do it in a way that's really bland."

Singer Blaine Harrison allegedly added: "Alex Turner does it in a way that's beautiful, but Richard Archer does it in a really laddish, obvious way. Watching the way he performs, he makes me feel uncomfortable and it makes me think 'right, so that's what a man is? That's what a man should be like?' - the way he's leaning into girls' faces shouting 'awwight poppet!' I don't wanna go there... they come from about a mile down the road from us and their fans are probably harder than our fans, but I don't care. We're the anti-Hard-Fi, basically!"

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