There are some rather unpleasant things being said about them in the British press -- particularly via the ever-fickle NME, which was instrumental in breaking them. But you know what? The band doesn't care. When asked about the comments in the NME, which included:
- "Interpol is the worst band on the planet, a tuneless, talentless shower of Joy Division copyist fuckwits"
-Paul Banks sounds like "a cancerous baboon having his tonsils amputated"
and
- The rest of the band "should be "dragged cock-first into the nearest ditch, shot in the head with a bolt gun and have their entrails fed to diseased rats"
Singer Paul Banks told MTV:
"With our band, there's always going to be something. I learned very quickly — almost from the first album — not to read that stuff, because it has nothing to do with what I do. If you need to do something creatively, you just do it. You don't worry what people are gonna think. I mean, I don't really put that much stock into what any jackass on the street tells me about anything, so why put much stock into something just because it's in print?
But really... they actually suggested bolts to the head. That has to sting a bit.
As a side note, the NME should really look into whether or not they wish to continue employing Leatherface as a reviewer, because things could get hairy if he encounters a band he really doesn't like.
