The Mercury Music Prize

[Leon]

Key Dates for this are:
17 July 2007 - The shortlist is announced
4 September 2007 - The Award Show broadcast on BBC radio and TV

The Nationwide Mercury Prize exists solely to champion UK music by promoting the 12 Albums of the Year by British or Irish artists. All genres of music are eligible and all albums are treated equally. The Nationwide Mercury Prize is Europe’s Number One Arts Prize in terms of media coverage and influence. The 12 Albums of the Year are announced in July each year with the overall winner of the Prize decided on the night of the Awards Show in September. The music on the album is the only thing taken into account.
This year's nominations for the award are as follows:

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings
Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English
Fionn Regan - The End Of History
Jamie T - Panic Prevention
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
Maps - We Can Create
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
The View - Hats Off To The Buskers
The Young Knives - Voices Of Animals And Men

Interestingly the Arctic Monkeys won this last year and are the first band to ever be nominated for the award 2 years in succession, Dizzee Rascal also previously won this award in 2003.



For a preview of all of the bands, take a look on the Mercury Prize myspace site here, (http://www.myspace.com/mercuryprize) or the official site here, (http://www.nationwidemercurys.com/)and click shortlists.

Who do you think should win?
I personally think Jamie T has the best album out of all of those and deserves to win.

[Leon]

Anybody else like any of these bands/artists?

[planty]

some of them that have been nominated deserve to be there like arctic monkeys and klaxons etc but wht the hell is dizzee rascal doing up ther he needs to be shot in the foot and told to give up the music life cos he crap -soz but he makes me angry after what he did to that band aid song

anyway i rekon arctic monkeys will win it just because the A There Ace - B a local band gotta support the locals and C There Ace

[adam_smith]

well im not a big fan of any of theses artist so i choose arctic monkeys as they seem to be the best on there and i like some of there song to

[Leon]

Klaxons won it :)

[lucille]

Am I the only one who thinks Amy Winehouse is amazing? Despite the fact that she's clearly a malnourished crack addict with a questionable gender I think she's an incredible musician.

[Leon]

Am I the only one who thinks Amy Winehouse is amazing? Despite the fact that she's clearly a malnourished crack addict with a questionable gender I think she's an incredible musician.Yes.

Is she a good singer, I say NO, NO, NOO. <- Annoying as fuck.