Mercury Prize Nominations (no Morrissey content - well, there's always next year....)

[Almodis]

From http://www.nme.com/news/105641.htm
RADIOHEAD, COLDPLAY HEAD MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE NOMINATIONS

RADIOHEAD and COLDPLAY have been installed as joint favourites for this year's prestigious MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE after the shortlist was announced today (July 22).

Among those also nominated were debut albums from Irish popsters The Thrills, rising rockers The Darkness, London indie outfit Athlete and new hip-hop star Dizzee Rascal.

The nominees were announced by Jools Holland at The Commonwealth Club in central London.

The full list of nominees - and current odds - are as follows:

4/1: Coldplay 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head'/Radiohead 'Hail To The Thief'
6/1: The Darkness 'Permission To Land'/Dizzee Rascal 'Boy In Da Corner/The Thrills 'So Much For The City'
8/1: Athlete 'Vehicles & Animals'/Terri Walker 'Untitled'
10/1: Floetry 'Floetic'/Soweto Kinch 'Conversations With The Unseen'
12/1: Martina Topley-Bird 'Quixotic'/Eliza Carthy 'Angelicana'/Lemon Jelly 'Lost Horizons'

A panel of judges drawn from the music industry will initially choose their 12 albums of the year, before announcing the overall winner on 9 September.

The full list of previous winners is as follows:

1992 - Primal Scream 'Screamadelica'
1993 - Suede: 'Suede'
1994 - M People: 'Elegant Slumming'
1995 - Portishead: 'Dummy'
1996 - Pulp: 'Different Class'
1997 - Roni Size: 'New Forms'
1998 - Gomez: 'Bring It On'
1999 - Talvin Singh: 'OK'
2000 - Badly Drawn Boy: 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast'
2001 - PJ Harvey: 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea'
2002 - Ms Dynamite: 'A Little Deeper'

Published: 22-07-2003-11-58

[david]

> From http://www.nme.com/news/105641.htm RADIOHEAD, COLDPLAY HEAD MERCURY
> MUSIC PRIZE NOMINATIONS

> RADIOHEAD and COLDPLAY have been installed as joint favourites for this
> year's prestigious MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE after the shortlist was announced
> today (July 22).

> Among those also nominated were debut albums from Irish popsters The
> Thrills, rising rockers The Darkness, London indie outfit Athlete and new
> hip-hop star Dizzee Rascal.

> The nominees were announced by Jools Holland at The Commonwealth Club in
> central London.

> The full list of nominees - and current odds - are as follows:

> 4/1: Coldplay 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head'/Radiohead 'Hail To The Thief'
> 6/1: The Darkness 'Permission To Land'/Dizzee Rascal 'Boy In Da Corner/The
> Thrills 'So Much For The City'
> 8/1: Athlete 'Vehicles & Animals'/Terri Walker 'Untitled'
> 10/1: Floetry 'Floetic'/Soweto Kinch 'Conversations With The Unseen'
> 12/1: Martina Topley-Bird 'Quixotic'/Eliza Carthy 'Angelicana'/Lemon Jelly
> 'Lost Horizons'

> A panel of judges drawn from the music industry will initially choose
> their 12 albums of the year, before announcing the overall winner on 9
> September.

> The full list of previous winners is as follows:

> 1992 - Primal Scream 'Screamadelica'
> 1993 - Suede: 'Suede'
> 1994 - M People: 'Elegant Slumming'
> 1995 - Portishead: 'Dummy'
> 1996 - Pulp: 'Different Class'
> 1997 - Roni Size: 'New Forms'
> 1998 - Gomez: 'Bring It On'
> 1999 - Talvin Singh: 'OK'
> 2000 - Badly Drawn Boy: 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast'
> 2001 - PJ Harvey: 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea'
> 2002 - Ms Dynamite: 'A Little Deeper'

> Published: 22-07-2003-11-58

its scandalous that "Vauxhall and I" didn't win...also the Super Furries should have scooped up a few awards too. Gomez? Bah. Of the ones I've heard of this years (Coldplay,Radiohead,Thrills,Darkness,Eliza Carthy), they're all pretty average. I hope the Thrills win, but it'll probably be some random unknown.

[Almodis]

> its scandalous that "Vauxhall and I" didn't win...also the Super
> Furries should have scooped up a few awards too. Gomez? Bah. Of the ones
> I've heard of this years (Coldplay,Radiohead,Thrills,Darkness,Eliza
> Carthy), they're all pretty average. I hope the Thrills win, but it'll
> probably be some random unknown.

The successfull/established artists they nominate are never allowed to win, are they ? - they're just there to prove how left-field the prize jury is (by passing them over for someone more 'daring'.) Similarly the token jazz/dance/electronica/folk/country artists - who aren't allowed to win either. I think the Furries have only been nominated once ? (for "Rings..") and good as that album was I think on balance PJ Harvey deserved to win that year.

[david]

> The successfull/established artists they nominate are never allowed to
> win, are they ? - they're just there to prove how left-field the prize
> jury is (by passing them over for someone more 'daring'.) Similarly the
> token jazz/dance/electronica/folk/country artists - who aren't allowed to
> win either. I think the Furries have only been nominated once ? (for
> "Rings..") and good as that album was I think on balance PJ
> Harvey deserved to win that year.

Rings around the World is by far their worst album, its not that its bad, but "Mwng", "Guerrilla", "Radiator" and the new one are far better.