THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Comment On Kerrang! Award
August 24, 2008, 16 years ago
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN have issued the following update:
"So the Kerrang awards happened Thursday night. We won an award called The Spirit Of Independence Award, which according to host Scott Ian (before he was a VH1 Celebrity he was actually in a rad little band called ANTHRAX, kids) goes to an 'uncompromising band that manages to break rules and stay outside of the mainstream' or something like that. Basically they should just call it the Total Badass award. If you're a girl, we're like the guy who wears shitty clothes, hangs out with people your parents don't approve of, doesn't appear to have a real job, but is somehow smarter, kicks more ass, mysteriously has more money, drives a better car, and fucks better than your boring rolex wearing white bread boyfriend. Spirit of Independence? That's the DEP way, don't they know that? Anyhow, we got recognized, and sent Ben Weinman and Asian Steve across the pond to receive the award.
Ten minutes into the award ceremony, I get a text from Ben saying that we are seated right next to Metallica. Oh....killer. I think at that moment I was doing something really awesome like pumping gas or something and started to begin to question my decision not to go.
So nine hours later I get a call from Ben, and he tells me a tale of tales that will live on in infamy. The following events were real and actually happened:
-Ben and Asian Steve got onstage and accepted the award on behalf of The Dillinger Escape Plan....pretty awesome, great honor. Bands that we are huge fans of like Metallica and Rage Against The Machine stand and applaud...the surrealism begins. Thanks Kerrang, and thanks to our friends in the UK, you have always always been consistently some of our favorite people to play for, and some of the best and most supportive people in the world for us.Read more here.
