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OOH, LOOK AT ME, I'M WEARING A SWAN
Goodness knows we'd be the last people to complain about a lazy survey, but is Bjork really the most eccentric celebrity the world has ever known, as a BBC poll claims?
Surely Bjork knows exactly what she's doing when she turns up wearing a swan to an event - and the first mark of eccentricity is not realising what you're doing is out of the ordinary. That's what makes it different from showing off. So, Lee Mavers, trying to get the dust right on his speakers - that's eccentric. Kevin Shields? That's eccentric, too. Kate Bush, sometimes. But Bjork? She's just wacky.
(There's also a possibility that some of the respondents have just fallen into that age-old British trap of confusing "not from Britain" with "being a bit odd.")
What's even more frustrating is that she wasn't even the wacky one out of the Sugarcubes, was she?
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I was so glad to hear, on the second disc of the new Kate Bush album, that the whales, birds, random family members and strange disembodied voices were all living in the shed at the bottom of her garden and still contributing. After playing disc one I wondered where they were! But it was all OK.
What's even more frustrating is that she wasn't even the wacky one out of the Sugarcubes, was she?
I trust you're referring to Einar. For our younger readers, Einar was a sort of Icelandic Bez, but with the added irritation of a sodding microphone.
Wouldn't it be good to have an unsupergroup made up of people like Einarr, Bez, Andrew Ridgeley and other makeweights? Your man out of Oasis, the Smiths one who sued for royalties?
Einar was more of a Fred Schneider (B-52s) than a Bez.
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