Sep 21, 2007 • 1 min read

Xfm breakfast host bans The Enemy

Xfm breakfast host Alex Zane says he will no longer play The Enemy after an altercation with frontman Tom Clarke at the Vodafone Live Music Awards.

Xfm London breakfast show host Alex Zane has said he will never play another song by indie types The Enemy because of an ongoing feud between him and the band's frontman Tom Clarke who apparently told Zane that he hoped he would get "hit by a bus on [his] way home" during a run in at this week's Vodafone Live Music Awards.

Zane played seven seconds of The Enemy's latest single 'You're Not Alone' yesterday before declaring: "Those seven seconds are the last time The Enemy are going to be played on the Breakfast Show. This is the first time I've ever done this and I don't want to do this. I like the music of that band and we've talked them up, made them Record Of The Week, but I've had enough. I'm done with them now. You can find them elsewhere on Xfm, I can't control that. But I think if someone can be that rude, offensive and nasty no matter how good his music is and how nice his bandmates are, I'm done with them. I think wishing death upon people in graphic ways is the point when you go 'You know what, I can't even find the humour in this anymore'. So that's The Enemy off the Breakfast Show playlist forever. Hoorah!"

So, The Enemy by name, etc etc

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