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Mercury Music Nominees Announced With Predictable Snark And Sighs

August 7th, 2012 By Lauren Mullineaux

Today we bring to you a witty take on the Mercury Music Prize Nominees before anyone else and you should thank us, because we have endured listening to Ms. Dynamite on the Lauren Laverne show to do this; there was terrible music and hateful voices everywhere. We really do not look forward to watching them on TV, when we will be forced to stare into her dead eyes while Jools Holland carries on regardless in the background.

As some clever sod said on twitter, The Mercury?s are the private school of awards, which is probably why anyone who wins goes on to do nothing of any importance with the money.

Feel free to disagree with that previous statement, but just know we have tricks up our designer sleeves. Pulp did alright didn't they? Arguably so did Dizzee Rascal, except now he touts CBBC theme music – you could say all of these things but then we would say Speech Debelle and you would lose.

Paul Weller To Win Mercury Music Prize Tonight?

September 7th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

Tonight sees the annual Mercury Music Prize trundling into view, hauling its mighty self worth with it. Bands will be dribbled over and invariably drowned out to the sound of a room congratulating itself with thunderous back-slaps. Jools Holland will probably join-in with some faux honky tonk piano.

And weirdly, the bookies favourite for a win tonight is octogenarian Paul Weller, with his album ‘Wake Up The Nation’.

You can see what we thought of that album, and indeed, all the other nominees at this predictably dismissive article here.

Mercury Music Prize Announce Uninspiring List of Somebody-or-Others

July 20th, 2010 By Mof Gimmers

The Mercury Music Prize is a press junket with feelings. While bozos get plastered and toot chong from toilet cisterns, pinning lackeys against walls with their feeble erections, a panel of judges all pat each other on the back discussing albums that Really Mean It Man, as opposed to those that sold loads of copies that Didn’t Mean It Man.

And, as ever, ‘musical creativity and excellence’ is supposedly highlighted by the predictable 12 Albums of the Year shortlisted for the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize. And they’ve been announced today!

Aren’t you excited?

Mercury Music Prize 2008: The Nominees, Part Two

March 25th, 2009 By Matthew Laidlow

Ooh, can you feel the nerves building yet? The Mercury Music Prize takes place tonight – the nation’s foremost music prize where the judges will pick a winner based on how cool it’ll make them look rather than actual quality of music.

Yesterday, we looked at the first half of nominees, including the wonky-dancing Estelle and the brilliantly bonkers British Sea Power. With another six albums to pick from, we’re glad that the job hasn’t been given to us to pick a winner. We’d just get in a flap and end up throwing a dart at the various records. That is how the Pope is picked isn’t it? Anyways, here are the rest of the nominations for this year’s prize…