Entertainment For Lively Minds
Mercury Nominees List
Posted by Red Umpire on 19 July 2011 - 4:35pm.
Adele - 21
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
Everything Everything - Man Alive
Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
Gwilym Simcock - Good Days at Schloss Elmau
James Blake - James Blake
Katy B - On a Mission
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
Metronomy - The English Riviera
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
Apparently Michael McIntyre likes Adele and Stewart Lee's a Gwilym Simcock fan...
It's PJ for me.
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Personally I hope
It's King Creosote as the Mercury judges tend to go off message but I think the pressure of Adele will be to great this time
The shock is that Wild beasts didn't get nominated
but Elbow did. I like Elbow but c'mon it's not their best effort and the Wild beasts is a better album and they would benefit much more from a nomination.
Any how. If they go on form PJ for a win. If they try and be awkward Metronomy or the rubbish James Blake. (This years Emperors new clothes.)
Couldn't agree more
'Smother' is a really accomplished piece of work, I think. Given they have gone for repeat nominees this year (PJ, Elbow) I was gobsmacked not to see Wild Beasts on there.
I'd love Anna Calvi to win, or failing that, Gwilym Simcock - he's an extraordinary pianist. The jazzers never win, though, do they...? Sigh.
David Hepworth's Tweet
Just seen DH's tweet re the Mercurys:
Well, he got Adele and the jazz right! I've not heard Ghostpoet. Is the "rap that people who like indie like" comment fair? Not sure that much of the rest is "indie" though...
I'd say it was
Adele, Folk, Rock, Indie Pop, Rap, Jazz, Post-Dubstep, R&B, Indie Folk, Indie Pop, Rock, Pop/R&B.
Anna Calvi folk?
Other than yet, hard to argue.
But it's not a shed(seven)-load of indie, is it?
"weird jazz"?
Not sure that El Heppo was spot-on as regards his mention of jazz. He predicts a "weird jazz" nomination, but Gwilym Simcock's "Good News at Schloss Elmau" is hardly Borbetomagus now, is it? It's a straight solo piano outing. Very nice, and absolutely not weird.
Pass
"...but Gwilym Simcock's "Good News at Schloss Elmau" is hardly Borbetomagus now, is it? "
I'm ashamed to say I have no idea, never having knowingly heard either artist...
I know that it's early days......
...but the latest offering from the Horrors would be a worthwhile winner. A real pity that it iss too late to be considered.
I downloaded it last week & am hooked - I well expect it to be at the top of most end of year polls.
It's wasn't too late
and was in the 'long list' but didn't make the shortlist.
aha, they missed a trick
aha, they missed a trick there then - its a cracking album.
I've got six of those albums
I don't have Metronomy, Ghostpoet, Gwilym Simcock and the King Creosote one.
My vote would go to Anna Calvi.
Diamonds in the Mine
You must get the King Creosote at once Uncle Wheaty or your life is not complete.
Everything Everything For Me
Hands Down,it is outstanding. Spotify Playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/48QFLaLCKQTLIceKYuyHM7
almost ...
It's an album that I find annoying in parts, enchanting in others.
agreed
- i like it when individual tracks come up on shuffle, but find the whole album too irritating to listen to in one go.
Is the prize money taxable?
Is the prize money taxable? Wouldn't want poor Adele to go through the pain of handing over another 50 percent.
Swimlim Gimcock or whatever
Looking at Schloss Elmau, I'd say you'd be hard-pressed not to enjoy yourself. Hope the record company picked up the tab, mind.
http://www.schloss-elmau.de/english/
Yes indeed, and it looks as though Gwilym indulged in some
luxury spa treatments while at the Schloss, as he's looks pretty healthy and fresh-faced for a jazz musician. He's hardly got the Chet Baker look, has he?
It wouldn't work as a blues album, would it?
Woke up this morning
(dur-duh-dur-duh)
Found that the fluffy bathrobes hadn't been folded correctly
(dur-duh-dur-duh)
Message from reception from The Man.. my hot-stone massage gone been cancelled..
A quite interesting Long-list
whittled down to a quite disappointing shortlist (as usual)
My favourite of that lot is Everything Everything although that seems yonks ago.
Agree that Wild Beasts should be in there, and they really ought to have some rule about no repeat winners...bugger off Elbow and PJ Harvey you've had your turn!
No idea why Adele is in there. Shower her with Brit Awards and other gongs by all means, but she doesn't need the prize money or the attention does she?
James Blake is archetypal Mercury Prize stuff, urban music translated to slightly troublesome Didsbury semi-detached organic veg box Guardian Reader dinner party soundtrack (see also Portishead, Roni Size).
I'll take a punt on Ghostpoet. Not entirely my cup of tea, but I just think he might win.
KATY B for me
"urban music translated to slightly troublesome Didsbury semi-detached organic veg box Guardian Reader dinner party soundtrack (see also Portishead, Roni Size)."
Perfect. And apart from Didsbury (I do have a friend that lives there, though) and that I'm too mean to buy organic all the time that is me to a tee.
Anyway, the person I really want to see win is Katy B. On a Mission makes me want to dance all night long, take cheap drugs and have a quick bunk-up in the back of a cab on the way to the cafe for breakfast while coming down.
I'd have my money on James Blake
and my heart with King Creosote/John Hopkins
I think it's a pretty good list.
I can't remember ever seeing the shortlist and already owning so many of them - 7, if you're counting. On the other hand, maybe I've had a bad year...!
Does winning the Mercury always whop up sales?
(trying to even remember who won last year... going to have to google it.)
I imagine Elbow were going to hit the big time with 'The Seldom Seen Kid' and a song like 'One Day Like This' anyway.
ps Agree with what everyone's said about the Wild Beasts being fab. Sod the Mercury, buy it anyway.
wozzit xx?
if so, good album, but where'd they go?
cross-blog pollination
The *original* Mercury nominations list examined in detail...
http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=38017.msg564644#msg56...
Everything Everything
Not heard it, but just popped into HMV on Oxford St where it is going for £3, so took a punt. Look forward to listening to it.
Skirky's blog post...
Which this should've been a response to, is very funny & very true.
Should be Adele
But it won't be.
Best record in the group (of the six I've heard) by a thundering mile.
Far too populist.