Echo award battle 2013

[xxFordiexx]

So it looks like MK is up for a fight to get the big award .........

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/374484/Veteran-rockers-to-compete-for-Echo-Awards

[superval99]

Thanks xxFordiexx!    I'll keep my fingers crossed!   

[dmg]

It'd be nice to have him win this.  My fingers are crossed too.

[twm]

http://www.robbiewilliams.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11551

And don't get your hopes up - Robbie has done fairly well in the past, as shown here:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(music_award)

[xxFordiexx]

Yep indeed but MK is very popular over there as we know......

I'd be more inclined to worry about Springsteen, he's the cool kid apparently lol

[Fieneke2]

Thank you for posting this link Fordie!

I also think that Bruce Springsteen has a good change!  .......But of course I keep my fingers crossed as well and hope that Mark will win! 

Fieneke

[stratmad]

Wow, that's going to be a difficult one.... why don't they just go and quickly set up a boy group together? 

[xxFordiexx]

Yeah I always get the feeling that Springsteen can do no wrong, don't get me wrong, I think he's great but I honestly don't think his output is as good as Knopflers

[JF]

Yeah I always get the feeling that Springsteen can do no wrong, don't get me wrong, I think he's great but I honestly don't think his output is as good as Knopflers

don't get me wrong too, I far prefer Mark to Bruce, but I think that Bruce had bigger "impact" in rock history than Mark...

[twm]

I have been to many, many more MK concerts than I have Springsteen concerts but I would also suggest that, in the wider world and in the longer term, Springsteen will be the one judged to have made the greater impact.

Though of a very similar age, Springsteen has had the longer career in the music business. Mark's initial success came with Dire Straits, a name that is possibly more prominent in the public conciousness than his own name; Springsteen has been through several "career iterations", as it were, but the Springsteen name has always been to the fore.  I could go on.

It is neither here nor there what you or I think of the relative merits, qualities, skills and/or abilities of the two of them. An objective outsider, IMHO, would judge Springsteen's impact to have been, and to be, the greater.

[Banjo99uk]

Have I missed something or is not this award for the last year rather than a lifetime achievement. So it could be anyones surely. Apart from Robbie Williams.

[dmg]

Have I missed something or is not this award for the last year rather than a lifetime achievement. So it could be anyones surely. Apart from Robbie Williams.

 

That was my impression too.

[JF]

Have I missed something or is not this award for the last year rather than a lifetime achievement. So it could be anyones surely. Apart from Robbie Williams.

If it is the case, yes
Otherwise, I 100% agree with twm

[twm]

I was commenting more on the question of "overall impact on the world at large" than the Echo award. I should have included the word "also" in my first sentence and have now modified it accordingly.

I have gained much more enjoyment from MK than BS over the years, but, as I said, my response to their music is neither here nor there.

In respect of Springsteen, I have attended only two shows (one on the solo Tom Joad" tour and one on the "Seeger Sessions" tour - and I enjoyed the latter more) and have only gone out of my way to obtain one Springsteen album on CD (namely "Nebraska"). I guess that's fairly consistent in terms of my general musical tastes, though I also quite liked "The Wild, the Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle"

[MusicGirl1]

Oh no, I really do not want to choose...... LOL!
I love Mark and Bruce, each for different reasons. This is a tough choice.....
Lol! At least for me it would be.

Maaike