Portico Quartet
In April 2007 I wrote a review of Distant Voices, Still Lives, which very firmly got the shit rating. But after I'd walked out I saw a band busking out by the National Theatre which equally firmly got the good rating. And when I got back from holiday I found out the band in question, the Portico Quartet, had been nominated for the Mercury Music prize. So well done them. I mean, it's not like they're going to win but it's nice to see people with talent all growed up and doing well.Hopefully Chris Dent will get nominated for the Turner Prize in a couple of years time and then I'll be able to take 6 months off work!