Video clips for all twelve nominees: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7519158.stm
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Last Shadow Puppets? That's shit surely?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Those odds = "we don't have a fucking clue who's going to win".
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Thinking about it though my money would be on Estelle.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Wee, cowrin', timorous bookmaking going on there
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Why's that, Matt?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
hee i wonder if estelle and adele will have to be kept apart backstage again!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Adele should turn up in blackface
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Or holding an Estelle bottle opener
And Estelle should shove some cushions up her jumper and cotton wool in her cheeks
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder how the members of Portishead are feeling at the mo? being overlooked for the shortlist
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
After all that intensive hard work on that new album too
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
they only made another album to win awards and now it's all ruined
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Expect next record to be all downbeat and sulky to reflect grave disappointment.
― NickB, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Just in time for the 2016 Summer Olympics
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
radio 1 newsbeat this morning...
Portishead 'should win' Mercury http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7518000/7518842.stm
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Apparently Portishead are doing a cover of Ultravox's Lament
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, no female act has won the award since 2002 (Ms Dynamite).
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
that would be amazing (xp)
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
No point choosing the best winner. It's all fkn politics. No interest.
Have Los Campesinos been mentioned once on this thread, out of interest? Doesn't look like it to me. :-D
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Portishead what is on your ipod is it 'Teardrop' by your fellow West Countrymen Massive Attack?
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Your favourite jokes about trip-hop...
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
For what it's worth, Girls Aloud have only been mentioned once on this thread thus far and Sugababes not at all.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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It ain't for nothing that Los Campesinos looks a little like Dom Passantinos when you squint at it, they excel in pissing off everyone in the music industry. And that's why I (l) them.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:20 (sixteen years ago) link
they must feel NUMB, and that the MMP is run by COWBOYS. maybe to cheer up they will have a cup of tea and a BISCUIT.
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^this dude clearly ain't going to Indietracks this year
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Guardian doubtless already moaning about lack of Tuung, Adem, twirly birds chopping wood etc.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
So are there acts called Polar Bear and Sennen? How about ... Dreams Burn Down? In A Different Place?
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Indietracks looks like hell on earth
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Zoey Van Goey? Slow Down Tallahassee? Socks And Shoes? Roadside Poppies? Tortoise Shout!?
these are real band names?
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link
^kick this sick bastard out
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
these are real band names? are damn great fr sure.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
MILKY WIMPSHAKE might be the worst band name I have ever seen.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:32 (sixteen years ago) link
hey Dom maybe there will be an Innocent smoothie stand for you
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
ha look what turned up in my RSS reader: via Amazon New Releases RSS
Hamfatter - What Part of Hamfatter Do You Not Understand? http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Part-Hamfatter-You-Understand/dp/B001C3MYEY/
What Part of Hamfatter Do You Not Understand? - turning it around, I understand that you are a bunch of no talent lucky chancers that hoodwinked an idiot businessman that knows nothing about music
look at the front cover - coming to a bargain bucket in January 2010 at 2.99 in a HMV sale
would 500-1 to the make the Mercury Prize 2009? be generous odds
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://thoughts.bjsintay.com/wp-content/turn_around.jpg
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Is there actually a steam train to the festival? That's nice. I would consider going for that alone.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
gonna just quietly sneak away from that li'l BBCode faux pas
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Blueski, we agree about something music-related -- this calls for a celebration.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Martian, do you have a nickname for the band COLDPLAY?
I mentioned them elsethread elseboard, but i guess that doesn't count to LJ. No Girls Aloud mention because Tangled Up is by some margin their weakest album, and Sugababes haven't had an album within the date limits have they?
I tell a lie, Change came out in October. Well how 'bout that?
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://base58.com/ilx/indietracks.jpg
kinda wanna go now
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I got that Hamfatter album in the post about a year ago. I listened to it a generous once
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
NO HAVE YOUR SAY ON MERCURY SHORTLIST BBC NEWS WAKE UP!!!!!!
(just so we can revel in eejits writing in asking where is Dark Side Of The Moon, Britney, Billy Cotton Band Show &c.)
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Clodplay
― blueski, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link