in the latest issue of oxford music monthly, nightshift, yannis of foals says...
"people call us a haircut band and a hipster band and, yeah, like you say, a get-rich-quick buzz band. but we have terrible, home-made haircuts, we're seriously uncool provincial layabouts, and after two years or so of touring we still can't afford to pay any sort of rent. i don't know why that kind of shit gets spread around. boredom, perhaps, or just plain, abstract hatred. none of us really mind, though. i don't know who's responsible. read the drownedinsound forum and you can see that some people will slate anything and everything just for the sake of giving themselves a boner, so it's not like we're specially targeted."