Burial posts photo..

yu · Post by yu » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:06 pm

whoa!!

jd birch · Post by **jd birch** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:13 pm

think it had to be done. he can still be low key and unbothered if he wants.

love the fact he's apologizing for bad tracks. the mans a fucking genius at what he does.

touches our souls... ROUGH AS ARSEHOLES!

BIG UP BURIAL!

littleredraver · Post by **littleredraver** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:16 pm

REPOST (cause im lazy like that) - this is an article from aaaggesss ago!

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 80693.html

Another former student is William Bevan, aka Burial, a dubstar artist who enjoys a cult dancefloor following and who likes to retain a Banksy-like anonymity.

After searching william Bevan on google you get http://www.williambevan.co.uk/ a funeral directors! clever clever lol!

ballers · Post by **ballers** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:25 pm

now he can play live / dj and make a fortune.
better doin what he did on his terms..the sun were tryin to make a big deal out of it and gain some hype / speculation..he just quietly revealed his identity on his myspace.

littleredraver · Post by **littleredraver** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:28 pm

I still thinks its part of a bluff tbh! Why spend all these years hiding your identity only to un-cover it on a blog on myspace......... I wont believe it till I see pictures of him dj'ing or going on stage to collect an award etc etc

A funeral directors + burial is too much of a coincidence imo, unless he planned that of course. But hey im know to be a pessimist.

absense · Post by **absense** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:35 pm

Jeez dont start more theorys.

Thats him, thats his picture. Lets move on.

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:38 pm

i can exclusively reveal tomorrow's sun exclusive:

BURIAL IS JUST SOME BLOKE SHOCKER!

littleredraver · Post by **littleredraver** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:41 pm

absense wrote:Jeez dont start more theorys.

Thats him, thats his picture. Lets move on.

Im not starting anymore theorys lol, if you read my post above and see that there was an article in the independant a few months back that clearly stated this was his real name.....

There was a thread about it on here and no one believed it. Now hes posted it in his blog its true? Maybe it was just to shut people up. lol

But hey as I said im a pessimist and am probs wrong

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:47 pm

poor burial

letting the secretive side down

g-dub-productions · Post by **g-dub-productions** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:48 pm

badman!

all about the music, not the person.

respect him for that.

badger · Post by **badger** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:52 pm

i'm glad it's all over tbh but as people have said it's a real shame that it ended like this after the morally questionable media hounding that seems to be the norm these days

efa · Post by **efa** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:55 pm

Innit Badge, next it'll be "The Sun reveal Dubstep DJ Crackpipe Video sensation"

Out to you Will, keep your head down and worry about the beats now brav!

ctop80 · Post by **ctop80** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:02 pm

shame the media witch hunt prevailed

good luck to Will at the mercury prize

7" · Post by 7" » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:14 pm

it becomes more than a simple "joke" and he felt it, thats the right decision specially when hes about to win that mercury prize thingy, still burial is all about the music.

efa · Post by **efa** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:26 pm

ctop80 wrote:shame the media witch hunt prevailed

Not just the media mate, sadly the forum was all over this shockin state of affairs.

good luck to Will at the mercury prize

Year for sure, more than deserved and would hopefully lead him to start some kind of live setup

daggus · Post by **daggus** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:28 pm

LEQ wrote: On the other hand, this ruins my attempt at getting the Sun to believe it was Dubluke.

maybe that was the final straw for burial

agreed shame he's been forced to do this. In the end its just the music that matters to me

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:32 pm

To be honest, I'm guessing that there are going to be a couple of short "OMG we know who Burial is!!!!" articles in the papers (maybe one of them will use the picture and he'll be able to live on the proceeds of the copyright infringement case?) , a few hacks will phone him up to ask for interviews, he'll say no, and then it'll be business as usual. He's not really got the sort of public profile that makes it worthwhile jamming zoom lenses in his face every time he goes out for a pint of milk, I think the only reason people were interested in who he is is because he was explicitly a 'mystery artist.' I mean, I don't know Pinch's name or Loefah's name or Benga's name, come to think about it, and I don't particularly feel the need to find out.

Do we really 'know who he is' more now than we did last week? I mean, we know his name and what he looks like and where he comes from (although I think he mentioned that before anyway). In terms of knowing who he is, the Blackdown interview was a lot more revealing than this in that he actually talked about where his head was at and where he was coming from musically. Hopefully now people will just cool it and the whole "mystery artist OMG who is it" thing will die away to let the music speak for itself.

spiderman · Post by **spiderman** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:40 pm

well at least he doesnt have that pressure of idiots like the sun trying to expose him...

i think its quite insulting to be honest, that they attack this issue. he chose to remain unknown because he wanted to be about the music and thats all, and i respect that kind of thinking because thats the way it should be...

but its a blatent lack of respect for them to ignore his wishes.

all that kind of stuff is so pointless, extra publicity and having cameras shoved in his face and having his life on display...

it takes away some human rights to an extent. i guess we have this reinforced celebrity culture to blame for this kind of stuff and papers like the sun. i hate all this "treat celebs like gods" kind of culture, there just human beings who happen to do certain things better than the rest of us, leave em be.

tranquera · Post by **tranquera** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:45 pm

It's all about music... Burial will always be Burial... His music is amazing... His history and short but powerful discography is like David versus Goliath... Creative genius versus media stupid... I still play your first 12" out on mighty Hyperdub...

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:49 pm

Quids on the sun doing a little piece over the next few days exclaiming how they got burial to reveal his identity

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