I’m lazier than most when it comes to posting thread starters, but really – nothing?
I’m posting this just before the rsult is announced, but I’ll let the picture say it all for me. I don’t want Bowie to win by the way.
http://tinypic.com/r/msp4ec/9
MC Escher says
hmmm
… fuckit
DogFacedBoy says
Total arse gravy cuntflappery from London media scum – always has been
ernietothecentreoftheearth says
Hanging’s too good for them!
Sewer Robot says
Good man, ernie. This catchphrase has the potential to be the new “Scorchio!” – or at the very least to replace “Musings On The Byways Of Popular Culture” up top…
DogFacedBoy says
I’d go for ‘Nail em up, nail some sense into them, that’s what I say’
Dave Ross says
Boy George is getting very animated on Twitter about it….. Quick question. Who is the most irrelevant? X Factor winner or Mercury Prize winner?
MC Escher says
And who really cares about LP’s anymore, maaan? I’ve practically given up on them myself. Looking at the succeeding BBC4 show – “How the Album ruled the world, helped you recapture your youth and confirmed that your generation has the best nostalgia in history, all in one handy package” – only confirms to me how right I am.
Paul Wad says
Well, I think the Skepta album is fab.
JQW says
Mercury, the telecoms company behind the award, disappeared many years ago. Even their parent company, Cable & Wireless, appear to have pulled out of the UK these days, as their Internet data centres are now run by someone else.
Leedsboy says
C&W were bought by Vodafone about 4 years ago. That was the UK business and its now branded as Vodafone. There is still a C&W global business. None of this stops the award being crap though.
ganglesprocket says
I have never heard Skepta. But he has that Gomez, Klaxons, Speech Debelle kind of aura…
Captain Haddock says
I’m looking forward to his collaboration with The Orb.
badartdog says
Bestest post evah đ
Vulpes Vulpes says
I bet his real name is Herbert something or other. Is he one of those dreary shouty types the young blokes in the canteen are listening to every morning while they slice cucumbers or whatever it is they do when I’m getting my porridge?
Skirky says
‘Joseph’
count jim moriarty says
As usual, a jury aching to be relevant, hip and down wiv da kidz chooses a piece of unlistenable shouty nonsense with only a vague connection to music as winner (OOAA.).
And as far as the announcement goes, could Jarvis Cocker have been any more of a ridiculous self-absorbed pillock?
At least Mr. Skepta is doing something useful with the prize money, putting it towards developing a studio for the community in his home area of Tottenham. I never want to hear his ‘music’ again, but nice to see the prize put to good use.
Vincent says
Without a “progressive” category, I diskard such things.
Kid Dynamite says
My own favourite record on the shortlist was The Comet Is Coming, but I knew they had a minimal chance of winning. I wouldn’t have grumbled about Michael Kiwanuka winning either, but I reckon Skepta was a decent choice. It’s certainly a more fun record than anything else on the shortlist. The thing I disliked most about the TV show last night was the winnowing down to six before the thing had even kicked off. When the idea is to raise the profile of twelve worthy albums then it’s a stupid thing to do, and pretty obviously a concession to the TV demands, like BBC4 couldn’t have squeezed an extra hour in, instead of running with whatever the hell that Blockbusters knock off beforehand was. The six we got to see perform were all, funnily enough, the ones with a weight of marketing behind them. It’s a terrible shame that the smaller acts like The Comet Is Coming missed out on this exposure. The whole thing stinks of the Brits, but at least that bash is nakedly commercial.
Of the performances that were aired, I reckoned the only worthwhile ones were Kiwanuka (really good, I thought) and Skepta. If you’d asked me beforehand I would have said I liked Laura Mvula, but that song was diabolically pisspoor. Hanging genuinely is too good for The 1975, being neither slow nor painful enough to make amends for their performance. I’ve already gone with “diabolically pisspoor”, which is a shame as I am not sure how else to describe that “special video appearance” (and doesn’t that phrase just ring of the Brits?) from Radiohead. It made me wish I was religious so I could take the name of the Lord in vain. And then we had the Stars In Their Eyes Bowie thing. Well.
MC Escher says
Agreed with nearly everything you said just now, KD, spot on. Exceptions: 1975 were fine (except perhaps for their singer, whose performance put him high in the running for Borrell of the Year) as long as you have never heard Talking Heads or Duran Duran.
Also you shoul have been been less reserved about Mvula and much less reserved about Radiohead who seem to have reverted to form (sixth form, heh heh) having set their controls for the Heart of the Moany Fucking Dirge.
pawsforthought says
Borrell of the year? Priceless!
Vulpes Vulpes says
Arf!
I remember sitting on the tails of my long wax coat, sodden yet amused, watching my mate Scotty rapt and in awe of Herr Yorke spending over an hour indulging in “Moany Fucking Dirge” par excellence at Glastonbury some years back, shaking my head and chuckling quietly to myself in wonder at the mystery of witnessing Scott, a stout fellow with otherwise fine taste, actually enjoying the loathsome whine emanating from the Pyramid Stage.
Tiggerlion says
What??!! There’s been a Mercury Prize? Only seems like five minutes since the last one.
If you are asking my opinion, Kano is better than Skepta, but there you go.
bungliemutt says
Bowie would have got my vote, if only because I don’t like Radiohead, and they are the only two nominees I’ve heard of.
*Lights pipe. Puts on slippers*
Sewer Robot says
..which rather supports the “exposure” case. A complication in the meritocracy of the MMP, which pits anonymous nobodies against global superstars is the cash prize which is a decent amount if you’re, say, The Disappointment Choir but yer Bowies and yer Radioheads don’t need (Count Jim has mentioned how the Skepta cash will be put to good use).
Sewer Robot says
Am I correct in thinking the MMP is adjudicated by a panel of three people? Seem a bit of an overreaction to get worked up over whatever they decide. I agree with Miss ..er Kid Dynamite that dropping six acts who need the exposure before the tv show is a bad idea.
Sewer Robot says
I’ve looked this up and apparently there are twelve judges – not clear if all twelve are involved in the entire shortlist assemblage/whittling down/winner declaring process.
Y’know, having to look up your own question rather than one of you dudes/dudettes provide the answer is one of the main reason Bob Numbers flounced..
Tiggerlion says
No it wasn’t. Numbers was paranoid.
pawsforthought says
Seeing Skepta win the Mercury made me think “there’s a pointless answer in five years time.” Best of luck to him đ
Black Celebration says
News just in – Internet forum dominated by males in their 50s and 60s slam the Mercury Award:
“It’s just shouting into a microphone”
“There isn’t even a tune”
“If this is what passes for music these days…we’re in a very sorry state indeed”
In other breaking news, it seems the police are getting younger and the Queen Mother remains marvellous, even in death.
Uncle Wheaty says
Bring back the Britannia Music Awards and ordering music by post.
It has gone down hill since it was changed to the Brits….
Mercury what?
Vulpes Vulpes says
News even newer just in: Old Guys Rule.