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2013 Mercury Prize - Who do you want to win? |
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| Arctic Monkeys - AM |
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5 | 10.64% |
| David Bowie - The Next Day |
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9 | 19.15% |
| Disclosure - Settle |
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6 | 12.77% |
| Foals - Holy Fire |
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4 | 8.51% |
| Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg |
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3 | 6.38% |
| James Blake - Overgrown |
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3 | 6.38% |
| Jon Hopkins - Immunity |
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2 | 4.26% |
| Laura Marling - One I Was An Eagle |
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3 | 6.38% |
| Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon |
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7 | 14.89% |
| Rudimental -Home |
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4 | 8.51% |
| Savages - Silence Yourself |
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0 | 0% |
| Villagers -Awayland |
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1 | 2.13% |
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2013 Mercury Prize - Who do you want to win?
The awards are tonight and all would be worthy winners but who do you think deserves to win the 2013 mercury prize?
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Hopefully the poll will appear now
Last edited by P_P : 30-10-2013 at 18:57. Reason: Poll up |
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Tough call...but I do love Bowie's offering
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Bowie.
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Thread for the show
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1904961 tonight 9.30pm More 4; Highlights tomorrow night @ 11.05pm on C4. |
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Bowie for me too.
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Arctic Monkeys for me. And, over the last few days I've changed my mind on the likely winner and now think they will win. It would cap an incredible 12/14 months for them to be honest. Plus I'm seeing them Saturday and want them to be in a celebratory mood.
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I've only heard 4 of these albums...
Bowies - Nice comeback, but not really anywhere near pinicle of his career. Arctic Monkey - hahahahahaha.... Laura Marling - Decent album, probably the most likely to win (outta these 4) Villagers - Nowhere near as good as the debut. I would have given it to Lanterns in the Lake - but I don't really give a shit about silly awards, seriously the arctic monkeys hahaha. |
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It seems Laura Marling was there which is weird because she's supposed to be doing a gig in New Mexico in about 4 hours time. I must have got it wrong lol.
I think it's very open, more than half of the nominees are in with a very good chance this year which you can't usually say about this award. Even though I take an interest in the shortlist I'm always strangely ambivalent about who actually wins. The nominees are so different that it really just depends on which type of music most of the (small) judging panel prefer to listen to. |
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I'd love to see Laura Mvula win, especially being a 'newcomer'. Her vocals, musical style and writing are all wonderful. Or James Blake, his album's amazing!
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It's James Blake
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Watched this on More 4. Found Nick Grimshaw too insincere and lacking gravitas. He is okay chatting about celebrity nonsense but for this type of gig his style is inappropriate.
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I, for one, am not happy. The constant shoving of James Blake down our throats is getting tiresome. I don't know why the critics love him, given his similarity to so many other male artists. Oh well, there's always next year I guess.
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Not many people were predicting James Blake. Most of the late money was going on Laura Mvula and Arctic Monkeys.
He's a talented musician/producer for sure but his voice is a bit of a problem for me. I don't think singing is his forte if I'm honest but it obviously appeals to other people. |
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Nick Gwimmyshaw is indeed a terrible choice of presenter for this type of event, say no more.
I was thinking before the result I bet James Blake wins. This was because, well. Its the Mercury's. It almost always goes to someone a bit obscure. Plus I was in a bad mood on one of the threads on here and dissed him a few weeks ago after seeing him on Later... and his music didn't initially gel with me, so in my world that made it odds on he'd win! So yeah the Mercury kiss of death then, cause generally most of the acts that do win it disappear into an even deeper obscurity than they were before collapsing under the sudden media pressure of having to live up to the "award winner" status they've suddenly gained. I actually felt sorry for Mr Blake as he looked totally devoid of confidence performing live and receiving the award. When he left it behind on stage instead of picking it up it summed it up really. He looked even more devoid of anything to say speaking to Gwimmy afterwards. Although that could just be cause Gwimmy has that effect on people. I would hope Mr Blake can avoid the Mercury curse and enjoy a long and fruitful career, he probably didn't deserve my initial contempt. He looked like they'd already destroyed him after winning it. See what you do to these people Mercury judges! |
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Yes hardly brimming with charisma when he went up for his award or joy.
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^^ James Blake has always come across as shy to me. Not used to the attention and is probably quite uncomfortable with it. The type of music he does probably won't sell in huge numbers but he does seem to have a decent following of people who really like what he does. I do wonder if he'll be more of a producer than a performer in future though.
ps. BBC are reporting that Laura Marling wasn't there so I'm not going mad after all lol. |
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Absolutely worthy winner. Beautiful, minimalist, spacial, moving, melodic, soulful album. On a warm Sunday afternoon in Suffolk he was magnificent on the main stage at Latitude. Had everyone drifting to the clouds, then did a manic techno piece right in the middle that took everyone by surprise!
And he's so delicious - I could lick him all over!! |
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Even though I backed Bowie in hindsight I wished Laura Mvula would have won. I didn't realise she composed most of her album by herself.
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I adore Bowie but i am glad he never won, as his new album has to be his worst album to date, imo.
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