King Creosote and Jon Hopkins: Diamond geezers

If this pair win the Mercury prize, we can thank Sex and the City. Jude Rogers meets Jon Hopkins and King CreosotePop is full of odd couples, but this year's Mercury prize shortlist contains a particularly compelling one. Jon Hopkins, 31, is baby-faced and fashionably dressed, the image of a young DJ. Behind him is the shorter, scruffier King Creosote, aka Kenny Anderson, 43, the afternoon light catching the silver in his beard. The pair's album, Diamond Mine, marks the first time both have be...

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