mercury music prize: 2007

Longtime readers may be interested to know that the 2007 Lex 20p Music Prize for services to indie was won by Art Brut, beating the Klaxons into joint third place with The View.

Who'd you have given it to this year Sick mouthy?

Patrick Wolf

I'd be interested in setting up an alternative to Nick's shower of shite. How would I go about it? I'd need to give a rat's arse about shiny baubles, presumably.

Jokes, brzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

If anyone ever starts to think this, I think they should sit down with a nice cup of tea and remember that they are having the same thought (or at least the same press release) as whoever decided the NME Brat Awards would be an amusingly edgy alternative to the Brits.

i approve of anything that sets out to undermine stagnant (more) establishment practices tho

Stylus, Plan B, DiS and your mum teaming up to present an alternative award to an album from the last 12 months by a DEBUTANT only could be good just for taking some of the media glare away from the MMP.

i am all for a poll of debutantes.

the Popjustice prize actually got mentioned on 6 Music's MMP preview so they'll go for anything as long as they can link it all together.

Jools Holland was fucking awful last night. More so than usual.

Haha the guardian piece on it has a link to ...

Our one-star review of the winning album

lol, guardian out of touch with forward-looking music non-shock.

Stylus, Plan B, DiS and your mum
My mum is filling in a vote for Marcus du Sautoy audio books right now.

I guess you have to know when to stop these things. (Are the Brats still going? By 2000 they were the same as the Brits.) But my kneejerk reaction is against.

Then again I'm one of those people who is generally fairly happy with what Stylus and Plan B cover up until I'm being told how IMPORTANT it is and deserves MORE RECOGNITION.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/alexispetridis/story/0,,2162690,00.html

redresses the oversight.

Yes, but it was by the Lex ...

RIP

i wonder what charles hazelwoods' choice was.

its blend of distorted guitars, euphoric tunes and baffling lyrics... bore almost no relation whatsoever to old rave, the dance music that briefly held sway over British youth in the early 90s.

thanks for the history lesson.

Briefly? Fuck you, rockists.

I fancy the New Young Pony Club's saucy keyboardist, but now I've just found out she's shagging one of the Klaxons.
I hate the Klaxons.
Apart from "Golden Skans" and "It's Not Over Yet", which, bar "Pussyhole", are probably the two best songs on any of these albums.

biefly? *HELD SWAY*???

effortless songwriting nous
effortless songwriting nous
effortless songwriting nous

effotless != good when it comes to songwriting you berk

and it's not even a Friday