Kate Nash could just be nominated; August 6th release.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Polar Bear is not released till July 28th therefore will qualify for Mercury Prize 2009
― djmartian, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
predict:
Coldplay OR Radiohead Duffy Ting Tings Last Shadow Puppets Poxy Foals Elbow Estelle Hot Chip OR Sam Sparro Portishead OR Pendulum Robert Plant & Alison Krauss OR Paul Weller Jazz Other
― blueski, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't see past Lightspeed Champion.
It's the hat.
― Matthew H, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd have a punt on Last Shadow Puppets.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Also Goldfrapp durr.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
stating the obvious: but i reckon these will be shortlisted:
Burial [I know Kode9 / Hyperdub didn't enter the first Burial album, I wonder if the second Burial album was entered?]
Elbow
Portishead
Radiohead
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset [probably the token folk nomination]
― djmartian, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Sam Sparro is Australian, no?
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Sam Sparro is a shade too Australian (this also takes out Cilmi and Pendulum, I should imagine). I'd say that the list will have Adele, Duffy, Kate Nash and Estelle on it, the press bumph will be all "Yay women!", and the prize will go to... Coldplay.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Pendulum = OZ band [don't qualify for the Mercury Prize)
― djmartian, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Lightspeed Champion would have the benefit of being both GUITAR and BLACK, thus filling the only two requirements for winning the Mercury in one total package.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I LOVE drum'n'bass. Whenever I want to get a whole dancefloor going I put on Pendulum. When that beat drops...aahhhhh. SO HEAVY. They make the best electronic music.
― Just got offed, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Fake Louis?
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Burial Edwyn Collins Duffy Elbow Goldfrapp Guillemots The Last Shadow Puppets Lightspeed Champion Radiohead The Shortwave Set Some folkie Some jazzbo
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Petridis: "But really, is the sound of Pendulum any less authentic because it appeals to a more intelligent audience than the original junglists did?"
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Uhhhh... what, Louis?
― Tom D., Monday, 21 July 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Paraphrasing the Head Of Music at our uni radio station, who made constant references to his love of "heavy rock", as championed by the likes of InMe and Reuben.
― Just got offed, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Pendulum makes a pretty good pizza topping
― blueski, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Pendulum bottle opener
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
This is a guy who thinks Laura Marling is pretty much here to save music.
― Just got offed, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Will PJ Harvey get nominated for White Chalk?
― djmartian, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Rachel Unthank & the something-or-other, I assume? British twee folkness. Joanna Newsome-esque
such great wrongness in such a small statement :(
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Tell me more then! I'm going exclusively off her Myspace.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2008/fabriclive39.jpeg
― Free Peace Sweet!, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, she's nothing like Joanna Newsom, she's not shite
― Tom D., Monday, 21 July 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513ejppRh6L.jpg
― Free Peace Sweet!, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ brilliant heavy rock, great for when you want to make some noise
― Just got offed, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img3.nnm.ru/imagez/gallery/5/6/6/0/d/5660dd4cfdb97ceaa5c5097f086b15d3_full.jpg
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
If the Mercury Prize was selected by rateyourmusic.com ratings this would be the shortlist:
6 from the qualifying period of 2007
Radiohead Primordial PJ Harvey Oceansize Burial Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
6 from the qualifying period of 2008
Portishead Esoteric Elbow No-Man The Fall James
― djmartian, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Esoteric
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002BO0GM.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg?
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
YR MISSING PIECE IS ON THE FLOOR MATE, NOT IN THAT DUSTBIN!
(xpost)
― Mark G, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Oceansize have by far the best album of the available choices (IMO), but the chances of them getting nominated are so negligible as to be ludicrous.
― Just got offed, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
The Fall?
Now that'd make an interesting ceremony.
wrong Esoteric
doom metal
Esoteric http://www.myspace.com/esotericuk
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s1333086.jpg
― djmartian, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
by far the most superior rock album produced by a British or Irish artist in the qualifying period:
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
myspace http://www.myspace.com/fallentoruin
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s964594.jpg
― djmartian, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Tell me more then! I'm going exclusively off her Myspace
start here and then follow DK's link, i'd say.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Just buy their last album. You'll love it!
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 21 July 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Have bought it on the way home, ostensibly for Em, who loves stuff like this.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 21 July 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
hurrah!
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 21 July 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
My predictions: British Sea Power Burial Duffy Elbow Estelle Goldfrapp Laura Marling Paul Weller Portishead Rachel Unthank & the Winterset Radiohead Shortwave Set
In reserve: Benga Foals Last Shadow Puppets Ting Tings
― mike t-diva, Monday, 21 July 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Right then, on t'block we go:
Ting Tings Coldplay Oonthank Adele Marling Wombats Foals Portishead Estelle Burial Radiohead Edwyn Collins
There will be OUTCRY at the absence of Duffy, which will be assuaged when Edwyn Collins wins.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
laura marling winning would be totes cool! but i don't really give a shit any more, it's just blahhh albums, british people, old people, blahhhhh
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess the best british album of the past year is...tinchy stryder? that won't get nominated
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
but i don't really give a shit any more, it's just blahhh albums, british people, old people, blahhhhh
And there's Edwyn's acceptance speech.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
edwyn collins has a career? i mean he's, like, some one-hit wonder from my childhood. i liked 'a girl like you', i think, but i was still disapproving of a pop star called ~edwyn~. i don't believe he's still going!
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't check to see if their release dates fall within the correct range, but of a crop of young bands, I'd hope at least one of these make the shortlist:
Good Shoes - Think Before You Speak Mothers and the Addicts - Science Fiction Illustrated The Maccabees - Colour It In Pete & the Pirates - Little Death XX Teens - Welcome To Goon Island So So Modern - Friends And Fires
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
British or Irish Artists who released an album between July 16th 2007 and July 21st 2008.
dates can be checked on amazon uk
― djmartian, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
In a BBC 6 Music radio interview on 18 February 2005, Collins had said he felt unwell, but ascribed the nausea and vertigo to food poisoning. Two days later he was admitted to intensive care in London's Royal Free Hospital after apparently suffering a major cerebral hemorrhage. On 25 February, he underwent an operation, reportedly after suffering a second hemorrhage. The procedure was successful, and Collins is currently working on a lengthy program of neurological rehabilitation. He has right sided weakness affecting his hand and arm which prevents him from playing the guitar, and also affecting his gait.
It was announced in June 2007 that Collins would be releasing his sixth solo album in September 2007 on Heavenly Records entitled Home Again. The album was recorded before his illness but mixed after his discharge from hospital.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Mothers, Pete & the Pirates and So So Modern make it, the others are before and after cutoff.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
mother and the addicts are no more.
― stirmonster, Monday, 21 July 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Fair enough.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm just glad that jolly frolics Daily Mail-friendly Jane Asher missed the final count.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Maestro might be fine if it was an elimination contest for actual composers and not just whichever slebs are free and willing. I don't care that they get to learn how to do something new and isn't that great for them and also maybe we learn something about ourselves and our capabilities as Ordinary People at the same time. FUCK OFF.
― blueski, Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe they should have been made to conduct the full 60-minute version of Goldie's "Mother."
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:32 (fifteen years ago) link