Mercury Music Prize 2008 tittle-tattle aggregator

Louis:
yes. Just saw Neon Neon live, and were great with a festival set. Even Har Mar Superstar was good!

Last Shadow Puppets are, in reality, the Lotus Eaters (ask your dad).

I need to Babelfish that Frith quote...

OK, so Portico Quartet are sorta Late Junction-friendly ambient softness, whose USP is some sort of pat-pending marimba thingy. Pretty and relaxing. Would expect to hear it tootling softly in a contemporary ceramics gallery.

i.e. nowhere near as good as The Blessing or Polar Bear or Empirical, then?

That Jazmine Sullivan track ROCKS - best thing Missy's been involved in for years!

i know right (though also search her guest spot on trina's banging 'i got a bottle' - "i'm so stanky stanky rich my damn DAWG drive a benz" lolz). am really hyped for jazmine's album, 'in love with another man' and 'lions, tigers and bears' are astonishing too.

Yeah, but Tinchy or Wiley would just be dismissed as the token grime entrant (admits ignorance of NY - who he/they?)

have them both! and estelle, and the bug. no tokens then. ny is a wonderful grime/r&b/reggae singer whose split endz vol 2 mixtape is v special indeed, search 'what i see', 'no one ever cared', 'real or fake', 'better than that' and 'fire' in partic. she's got this really awesome stillness and clarity to her voice.

i thought the whole LSP concept just came out of AMs covering 'Diamonds Are Forever' live

I would like Burial to win for the TV acceptance moment alone.

Burial shouldn't win, as it'd give ginger kids the false hope that they can achieve something in life.

"I'd like to thank everyone who bought 3 Of A Kind's 'Babycakes, a record I produced but never told anyone this until now."

It's official - Babelfish can't make Simon Frith interesting.

Actually, yes, how they'd work out giving the award to someone who refuses to adopt any public persona whatsoever is the only thing that could make me interested in this.

Banksy to collect on behalf

And then, at the end, Ronnie Corbett stands up and sheepishly admits "it's me."

- CharlieNo4, - where did you find this Mercury Prize press release?

Christ, Neon Neon are TERRIBLE! I had no idea. Worst album on the list?

It's like the Radcliffe and Maconie playlist from hell, this list.

i suspect i can find at least one song i like on all of these albums - altho for Adele it may have to be the Rosko remix of 'Cold Shoulder'

Candie Payne really must be kicking herself these days.

"Adele it may have to be the Rosko remix of 'Cold Shoulder'" << this is great.

Actually, yes, how they'd work out giving the award to someone who refuses to adopt any public persona whatsoever is the only thing that could make me interested in this.

They'd "work it out" by giving it to someone else, Matt - standard cowardly award show practice innit.

Martian, C04l1t10n sent me that release.

Say Hi to Tony P3rrin for me.

Ooh, that Jazmine Sullivan *is* great. Very effective reworking of this riddim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_Bkk1P1rY

Weird - on checking, turns out I only picked six. Plant & Krauss now seems blindingly obvious, but British Sea Power? British fecking Sea Power? Ahead of Portishead? Really?

Unthank ftw - though why no-one can see that Burial offers The Daily Mail an angle ("REVEALED: the face of the cowardly recluse who shamelessly profits from soundtracking ASBO-land") from which to cover this...

shamelessly profits = made a couple of hundred after persuading his mates to download it as FLAC on Bleep website

Hamfatter for next year's gong 'm calling it

British Sea Power - is an undeserving selection - however there have been far worse selections in previous years, the horrors of: Turin Brakes, The Thrills, The View, Snore Patrol, Hard-Fi and Jamie T.

I think they were called Snow Patrol, not Snore Patrol

i always call them Snore Patrol

Why?

Video clips for all twelve nominees: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7519158.stm

Early odds from Hills:

The Last Shadow Puppets 5/1
Radiohead 5/1
R Plant / A Krauss 6/1
Elbow 6/1
Burial 6/1
Laura Marling 8/1
Estelle 8/1
British Sea Power 8/1
Adele 8/1
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset 10/1
Portico Quartet 10/1
Neon Neon 10/1

Last Shadow Puppets? That's shit surely?

Those odds = "we don't have a fucking clue who's going to win".

Thinking about it though my money would be on Estelle.

Wee, cowrin', timorous bookmaking going on there

Why's that, Matt?

hee i wonder if estelle and adele will have to be kept apart backstage again!

Are you 9?

the "we'll show HER who's industry is instituionally racist" vote

going against her is that she's already done well from it and had a #1

Adele should turn up in blackface

Or holding an Estelle bottle opener

And Estelle should shove some cushions up her jumper and cotton wool in her cheeks

My logic for Estelle:

- There have been two big rock winners in a row, and before that was Antony, no black artist has won it since Dizzee in what 03?

- People have actually heard of her but they can still at least look a bit credible and edgy by broadsheet standards.

- If Radiohead win they'll just look lazy.

I wonder how the members of Portishead are feeling at the mo? being overlooked for the shortlist

After all that intensive hard work on that new album too

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they only made another album to win awards and now it's all ruined

Expect next record to be all downbeat and sulky to reflect grave disappointment.

Just in time for the 2016 Summer Olympics

radio 1 newsbeat this morning...

Portishead 'should win' Mercury
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7518000/7518842.stm