Foals to quit playing fools
Group winners have promised their mums to look after themselves now they have a BRIT Award.
Yannis Philippakis
has a habit of injuring himself at gigs, climbing onto speaker stacks or swinging from balconies.
The singer explained: “My mum worries about it. She sees things. I’ll be in the depths of a tour in Eastern Europe and I’ll get a text saying you better stop jumping off balconies!
“I’ve hurt myself a few times. I’ve busted my feet up and I gouged my shin in Denver. (Guitarist) Jimmy
(Smith) poured vodka on it and swore it would be all right but it wasn’t. I should’ve gone to ER.”
Foals continue to court danger by jumping into the crowd at their Warchild gig for BRITs Week before the awards.
At least Yannis is almost fully recovered after a nasty accident with a knife in Greece last year.
He said: “I lost some feeling
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in my finger. have been worse.”
BRITs success comes on the back of twin album releases Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Parts 1 & 2.
It’s not a cheery listen, more the soundtrack to our environmental emergency.
Yannis agreed: “We feel proud of the fact we tried to push ourselves... it’s the most ambitious project we have done.
“It is OK to grapple with big themes, it’s not the time for irony.
“It’s important for artists and musicians to engage otherwise, it’s cowardly in a way.
“It makes what you are working on more vital.”
But just because Foals tackle big themes does not mean they’ve forgotten how to have good time.
Yannis agreed: “At the fundamental heart of the band is making the music fun and gratifying.”
It could
aSOUL siren Mahalia was more worried about staying on her feet than winning a BRIT last night.
After being pipped to the Female gong by Mabel she told me: “All I’m focusing on is not falling over and not getting drunk so I have an OK night!”
The BRITs had come in for criticism about the lack of women on the mixed shortlists.
Mahalia agreed: “There’s been a lack of recognising females across the board in music.
“My category is a great representation of where women are at. But I’ve experienced rage at some of the festival line-ups recently, where females aren’t recognised in the way they should be.”
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