Aaah, MM, stop trying to reason with him. There has never been any reasoning with him, there will never be any reasoning with him. He's either the most dedicated troll we have or mentally disturbed, there is no middle ground.
The voice of reason. Indeed. Music is by its very nature subjective, not liking a certain genre isn't prejudice it's taste. I'll use the word preference if that helps.
This time last year during a heat wave i was at the Arlington Centre health check and the mum in front of me was absolutely frantic. Her daughter hadn't slept in five days with the heat and consequently nor had she. Only advice forthcoming was as above though. Keep air moving, open windows, tepid baths etc. I saw her in sainsburys a couple of weeks later post heat wave and the wild eyed creature had become a normal woman again, so don't worry normal service will always resume and we rarely have long heat waves in this country (in fact I think this one finishes tonight?). I'm quite lucky in that the heat seems to make the mocklet drowsy.
I'm not sure how Elbow suddenly became national treasure status but their first album has some pretty great moments and I've not minded anything subsequent. Coldplay. Yes, CM is a cock, yes everything theyve done post parachutes is done to a boring forumla, but I actually really rather like their first album too. File it under nicholas cage.
"By that stage I'm sure the clothes are all'grey' anyway" Very funny!!! Although in all fairness ours are mostly beetroot, jam, stew and rusk coloured! More of a greying puce.