It's A Good Day!
Filed under: Anglophilia > Music Minute
Like Christmas, today is one of our favorite days of the year. The Mercury Prize nominees were announced this morning in London!
Since their inception in 1992, the annual Mercury Music Prize awards have set out to reward the best in British music, regardless of genre or style. An independent panel of judges (music industry experts, journalists, record company bosses and the like) selects twelve ‘Albums Of The Year’, before choosing one and announcing the overall winner on the night of the Mercury Music Show.
A few years ago, the U.S. started their own equivalent with the Shortlist Awards.
Some of our favoritest people in the world were nominated today, and we'd like to highlight a few.
Miz Amy Winehouse's Back To Black is definitely the front runner. If you haven't heard Rehab yet, then we don't know where you've been living.
Fionn Regan (pictured above) was nominated for The End of History, featuring the exquisite Be Good or Be Gone.
The wonderfully cooky Bat For Lashes got a nod for her Fur And Gold. If you haven't yet, then definitely check out What's A Girl To Do.
And, the feel-good New Young Pony Club were also nominated for their super fun Fantastic Playroom. Try and not dance to Ice Cream. It's been out for a while, but it's still the song of the summer!
CLICK HERE to see the full list of Mercury nominees.
Bat For Lashes - 'Fur And Gold'
Young Knives - 'Voices Of Animals And Men'
Jamie T - 'Panic Prevention'
Klaxons - 'Myths Of The Near Future'
The View - 'Hats Off To The Buskers'
Amy Winehouse - 'Back To Black'
Dizzee Rascal - 'Maths & English'
Fionn Regan - 'The End Of History'
Maps - 'We Can Create'
Arctic Monkeys - 'Favourite Worst nightmare'
Basquiat Strings - 'Basquiat Strings'
New Young Pony Club - 'Fantastic Playroom'
first?
FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [BITCHAS]
there are alot of missing albums there…
first biatch!
Third … and who really cares? Sheesh.
I hate work! mtv sucks too.
4 TH
Go Klaxons!!1
klaxons have to win!
i love the klaxons!
the klaxons are the best!
klaxons MUST win!
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy perez loves ther uk and the uk loves him back.
new young pony club rock.
klaxons to win
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klaxons are ok but they won't be around much longer , the whole new rave scene is a big joke that got out of hand, i go out in shorditch and the new ravers look fucking ridiculous granted not as ridiculous as the emos but they come close second.
no more glowsticks and no more smiley face tshirts please we did all that in the early 90's for fuck's sake,
sort it out.
amy winehouse looooves toys
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Speak for yourself UKer… I'm from London, and I don't love this ugly fat gossiper! And I must say most London thinks he is a fat ridiculous clown! He has no sense of fashion, good taste or charisma… he is just pathetic and believes he is a celebrity when he really is a looser! He couldn't become an actor cause nobody hired him, so he tried to be "famous" by any means… I'l give you 1 year before you dissapear Perez. Oh! and your show will suck just as you suck, here comes another "HEY PAULA"!!!!!!!
I love the theme of this post. You're awesome babe.
Are you sure that guy isn't Beck? Or perhaps a clone of Beck
SEAN IF YOU'RE FROM LONDON THEN MY NAME IS BRITNEY SPEARS.
LIAR.
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The arctic monkeys should win this monkey hands down!!!
OK, so what will it take for the fat pig to realize that Irish/Ireland is not the same as the UK/English. Fionn Regan, (just look at the name, for god's sake) is Irish. Calling an Irish a Brit is not good, yet Pigez does it all the time. From now on, I will refer to Pigez as the fat, ugly, Puerto Rican Spic.
WOW! Dizzee Rascal again! He's frickin' fab!
I wanna hear Bat for Lashes take on Madonna's "Justify my love" !!!!!!!!( and Devendra Banhart take on"Material girl")
I myspaced the NYPC and just like you said…I was dancing!! LOVES IT!
gotta be nypc…or klaxons…or dizzee…or bat for lashes…or wino…fuck the nominees r too good this year!
I LOVE NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB! I love you too Perez.
ANGLOPHILIA? fionn regan is irish!
ARCTIC MONKEYS!!!!!
Everybody knows how much of a joke the Mercury Prize awards are. Is anyone really surprised by who won???? C'mon.
Perez, you should have a section in itunes…it would be great…perez's suggestions!!
Wooo Klaxons
Maps - We Can Create is my personal Best of the Year
The whole album is 6 bucks on iTunes and is worth much, much more.
You should all check it out!!!!!!!!
Where is Mika? I should be there….
Nice call for picturing Fionn Regan.
There are so many good nominees this year
Such as klaxons,jamie T,Maps o, The young Knives and of course Mr Regan
No offence to the fabulous Miss Winehouse but I love to see these things go to slightly smaller artists.
Klaxons FTW.
zig- he could be from northern ireland, in which case theres a strong possibility he does consider himself british.. your such a prick!
Fionns from wicklow, which isnt the north, but I think hes pretty much based in the UK right now.. still doesnt make him english tho (obviously)
Fionn Regan is from Bray in North Wicklow, on the outskirts of Dublin City. He lives in Brighton in England though and his song "be good or begone" was featured in a Toyota or a Citroen advert here in Ireland!
Up Fionn!
amy winehouse?… nasty hick
… hes cute ^_^
The Mercury Prize celebrates music from the british isles..not british music, ireland although being a member of the british isles, is not british. Therefore it is a prize for music from britain and ireland..why do people always get it wrong.
fionn is wonderful.
ARCTIC MONKEYYYYYYYYYYSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! OR JAMIE T. . .
KLAXONS!!!!!!
arctic monkeys for sure!