Unmasking Burial: we love it

It was top Tory drummer Bev "Bev" Bevan all along, I knew it.

Spent months building up the 'he was the white dude in 3 Of A Kind' rumour all for this moment but no mention :(

Who, David Copperfield?

yeah, the magic guy

They will unmask Burial only to reveal a tiger in a cage.

(Actually I meant the "comedy" dude, but you knew that anyway)

lol prancehall abusing his new powers <3 <3 <3

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Roffle. I don't really think any of his mates will call in and blab to the Sun.

Burial will be:
a) his sledge;
b) Patrick McGoohan dressed as a hoodie;
c) John Bluthal as the seemingly mild mannered Eastern European refugee.

d) A GHOST ALL ALONG

e) special guest star Joanna Lumley so she can do her party piece.

f) Kindly old Mr Fairbairn the toymaker who would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you meddling kids.

g) David Cameron

h) Westwood

Burial will come to the Mercury Prize award ceremony wearing a slipknot mask and boiler suit

i) Desmond Carrington

Don't think that's very likely xp

Burial dressed in a banana suit instead maybe?

j) TV's Bradley Walsh and he'll come on in a smart suit, dicky bow and frilly shirt.

Some possible Burial-at-the-Mercuries looks

http://percypringle.com/Hall-of-Fame/Photos/KanePaul.jpg
http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01280/Mexico/Sports/wrestling/wrestling/el_santo2.jpg
http://www.wwe.com/content/media/images/Superstars/bio/4829480

burial will wear an altern 8 mask

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/85/Shockmaster.jpg/250px-Shockmaster.jpg

i thought he was rex the dog?

it's the Unknown Comic

nah Rex the Dog was Mr Wrestling III

http://www.ombwatch.org/budget/images/baghead.jpg

It's The Stig.

burial, at home yesterday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/images/2006/02/09/frank_sidebottom2_470_470x300.jpg

i'm positive it's noel gallagher. or liam

pipecock.jpg

This is my favourite Burial production:

http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/ef/efuas6148400344429800.jpg

and to think he would have gotten away with it if you meddling ILMers hadn't come around!

http://www.headinjurytheater.com/phantom%20scooby%20doo%20unmask%201.jpg

dang, didn't see that Dingbod pipped me to the post!...why must all the good jokes be taken?

Can you see a scumbag journo / photographer at the Mercury ceremony unmasking burial ?

Burial guy turns out to be Mike Reid in the picture above.

revealed: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=60968411&blogID=421408328

i would like for it to not be revealed because the music is mysterious sounding so, y'know, it would be nice for a little mythmaking to be allowed now and again. still.

Presumably not the same person

this guy is from england an no one gives a shit

anonymity is too fucking easy these days.

who hasn't tried to be anonymous once just for fun?

http://a257.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/113/m_c28dbdf733809573e19d0e30ece03908.jpg

He looks like I thought he would..

He looks like someone who was image-googled.

Cmon, Burial doesn't exist. Keep the dream alive.

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Why did he put up that Jamiroquai picture?

well i never, first sniff of some major payola and the dudes on the self promo tip.
thought he would keep the game alight right up until the Mercury party.
guess some of his "mates" were falling for the tabloid pressure and he just wanted to beat them at their own game.

Hahahaha

http://i33.tinypic.com/b7ewrq.jpg

xpHe looks kind of like the guy on the cover

http://steinskog.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/burial-untrue.jpg

Who'd have thought it's a caricature?

i love that it's just some guy. it would seriously lame if it were fatboy slim or some other douchebag taking a fake name so he could be taken seriously, so much better that it's just a regular guy who didn't want people to know who he was

^ what he said.

did anyone actually suspect that Burial was Fatboy Slim?

^I'll wager at least a few people breathed a sigh of relief...

That picture of Chris Martin at the side of The Sun's story looks a lot like Tommy Boyd.

He kind of reminds me of a younger Thom Yorke on that photo.

Spent months building up the 'he was the white dude in 3 Of A Kind' rumour all for this moment but no mention :(

bask in your moment of internet glory blueski

He totally looks like a dubstep kid. I'm glad it wasn't GiGi D'Augustino.

I'm bummed he unmasked himself. I prefer the mystery.

Yeah, I just found out about the mystery a couple of weeks ago after I joined the bandwagon, got the album, then went searching for more, only to find out about this dark anonymous character dropping good albums.

This reminds me of a dream I had once about an old college professor studying rap anthropology who made a name for himself by rediscovering a West Coast rap collective from the mid-90s whose only output was lost among garage sales in South Central. He made a documentary devoted to finding them since they were known only by their rap aliases and disbanded in honor of one of the members who was shot and killed. I'm weird.

np: 3 of a Kind - Babycakes

skygreen - which rappers?

Well, mystery or not, Untrue is -- to me -- one of the best albums of the decade (since we're late into the naughties and about to start considering such lists).

Heard someone claim that Burial sampled these drums for Archangel, or Prophecy. It's definitely the same pattern as the latter, but sounds more like an influence than a sample (maybe he grabbed just the rimclick sound though). Sick track anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFP-yMZIWMo

That's one of my favourite compilations of all time