Mercury Prize today!
Paul Macinnes over at The Guardian is liveblogging the 2009 Mercury Prize ceremony. I’d be perfectly happy if Florence or Natasha win this year.
Who do you think is going to walk away with it this year? Who would you like to see win?
The latest update on the favorite odds:
11/4 Florence and the Machine
5/1 Bat for Lashes
5/1 Speech Debelle
6/1 The Horrors
7/1 Lisa Hannigan
15/2 Friendly Fires
9/1 La Roux
14/1 Kasabian
14/1 Glasvegas
25/1 Sweet Billy Pilgrim
33/1 The Invisible
33/1 Led Bib
PREVIOUS WINNERS:
1992 Primal Scream – Don’t Fight It, Feel It
1993 Suede – Beautiful Ones
1994 M People
1995 Portishead – Strangers
1996 Pulp – I Spy
1997 Roni Size
1998 Gomez
1999 Talvin Singh
2000 Badly Drawn Boy
2001 PJ Harvey – You Said Something
2002 Ms Dynamite
2003 Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
2004 Franz Ferdinand – All For You, Sophia
2005 Antony and the Johnsons – Fistfull of Love
2006 Arctic Monkeys – The View From The Afternoon
2007 Klaxons – Golden Skans
2008 Elbow – Grounds for Divorce
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