whats that in useful time?

its too late in the day for math.

Three hours Nony

Official site

Here it is...

• Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
• Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
• Editors - The Back Room
• Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
• Richard Hawley - Coles Corner
• Hot Chip - The Warning
• Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
• Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot
• Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
• Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
• Sway - This Is My Demo
• Thom Yorke - The Eraser

BBC says...

...The award, which recognises the best UK or Irish album of the past year, comes with a prize of £20,000. The winner will be revealed on 5 September....

Go Guillemots!!

But Arctic Monkeys will win it . . .

dull dull dull dull dull

predictable though...

My £10 is on Richard Hawley...

Bit of a hubbub that some of the BBC Sound of 2006 artists missed out on the final 12...

Particularly Plan B and Corinne Bailey Rae

It was also predicted that Lily Allen would get a nod.

The winner can be a bit left field, so the Monkeys aren't a shoe-in

I'm surprised Plan B didn't make it. Thought the Burial album was in with a chance too.

Actually...

Where the f is Kate Bush - Aerial

Certainly a better LP than Thom Yorke's [which is a guilt inclusion as Radiohead ain't had much luck here]

I thought Sway were finished after It's never been a better time to rock n roll. Good on them for the nomination.

carn Editors - The Back Room!

Editors won't win.

The LP came out 51 weeks ago. There's already complaints that it's too old for inclusion.

Also the fact they they re-released THREE singles from the LP has really put people off them. When you've had seven singles, all on a major(ish) label, but only four different songs, makes people think poorly of you

lou rhodes could be a dark horse, mercury like female acts, and she's the former singer of lamb.

can't see the token urban act this year, but the last years been pretty so so for that genre.

though roots manuva's newie could have got a nod.

ah well.. can't help my enthusiasm.. didn't realise it was that old.

i just hope it's not the artic monkeys
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I'm glad DIZZEE RASCAL got a gong.

Out of those lot, my favourite was probably Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan...

Did I get the wrong idea that the Mercury Prize is kinda more of a Best New Artist thing? Muse? Thom? Scritti MF Politti?

she worked with muph & plutonic on the album in melbourne.

So she won the award because she's a black female MC doing the South London grime sound, not necessarily because she made the 'best' album. The judges wanted to make a politically correct statement, so they elected not give the award to popular acts who are signed to major labels (ie. Bat For Lashes, Glasvegas, Kasabian).

Oh well. Whatever. Who really gives a shit anyway?

Yeah, no shit given here, I gave up on this shitty award when they rewarded borecore kings Elbow over Burial's far superior album.

'Borecore'.

That's a great name for Elbow's musical genre. I'm gonna use that term. Also applies to The Whitlams and any music played on Radio National.

They couldn't have given it to Burial though right, I thought no one knew who he was. No one collecting the award = bad TV = bad ratings = less advertising = less $.

No, he revealed himself a few months prior to the award ceremony.

Also applies to The Whitlams and any music played on Radio National.

aw bollocks. Radio National has mad music. Tim Richie rocks.

they televise the Mercury prize? they just got the one award/novelty sized cheque to handout. that's gonna take 5minutes max!

Nah. All the nominated bands play a song.

aw. if they played a set each it could've been the best annual music festival. especially that year with the Spice Girls nominated.

No one collecting the award = bad TV = bad ratings = less advertising = less $.

No adverts on Aunty

Yawn. She'll sell a few more records now and then dissapear ala Ms Dynamite. Well done to her I suppose. It was rather amusing reading the freebie papers this morning about how 'revolutionary' her sound is... check it out and it's bog standard jazzy hip pop... the kind of stuff that artists like Roots and Common have been churning out of a much higher quality for years.

Still glad that La Roux didn't win. She makes me stabby.

2010 shortlist!

* Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
* Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea
* Dizzee Rascal – Tongue n' Cheek
* Kit Downes Trio – Golden
* Foals – Total Life Forever
* I Am Kloot – Sky at Night
* Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
* Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
* Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
* Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
* Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
* The xx – xx

BBC 6Music are currently having a late-night series where each act discusses and plays their nominated album

What do you mean the best album didn't win?

Oh, the best nominated album didn't win either?

Sorry, but I'm not surprised

Well I'm just glad that nowhere else in the world seems to be under the thrall of Mumford and Sons. Would have liked to see Wild Beasts get it but XX are hardly the worst on that list.

the xx are probably the worst live band on that list tho. terrible.

You'd seriously rather listen to Sigh No More or a Biffy Clyro record than XX?

absolutely not. hate mumford, have no interest in biffy.

but the xx at laneway were shocking.

great album, deserved winner