Mystery Jets: 'We're The Anti Hard-Fi'

Mystery Jets have admitted that they’ve still got deep-rooted hatred for Hard-Fi.

In an interview with Gigwise last September singer Blaine Harrison labelled the Staines lads as “repellent” – a story which landed the band in deep water when it broke in the nationals.

Now, Blaine defended the comments telling us: “That was taken out of context. You ruined my life, ha ha! But they’ve had a number one album, so I’m gonna shut up right now!” 

But Will from the band isn’t quite as restrained, saying: “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.”

Spurred on Blaine told Gigwise: “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!”

Ahhh, there's nothing like a bit of inter-band hatred.