I cannot understand why Keane get featured so much in The Argus.

Their music is so bland, boring and characterless.

If they win the Mercury Music prize, it will be a disaster.

They just play easy-listening pap for under-twenty-fives, much like Coldplay.

There are a lot of Sussex bands such as Hope Of The States and The Decline Of British Sea Power who are so much more talented.

It is a great injustice that the recent album by Hope Of The States was not a Mercury nominee.

I hope that Franz Ferdinand win as they're not going down the Cliff Richard route like Keane.

-David Broughton, St Leonards