Since there simply aren’t enough prizes given out these days, the nominees for the UK’s prestigious Mercury Music Prize (the winner gets 20,000 quid) were announced yesterday – and they are ñ drum roll please: Basement Jaxx’s Rooty; Ed Harcourt’s Here Be Monsters; Elbow’s Asleep In The Back; Goldfrapp’s Felt Mountain; Gorillaz Gorillaz; PJ Harvey’s Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea; Radiohead’s Amnesiac; Super Furry Animals’ Rings Around The World; Susheela Raman’s Salt Rain; Tom McRae’s Tom McRae; Turin Brakes’ The Optimist LP;and
Zero 7’s Simple Things. Craig David, Robbie Williams and U2 are a few of the artists expected to appear who haven’t been nominated. Last year’s winner was Badly Drawn Boy’s The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast.

Source: Music365.com

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