Elbow Win Mercury Music Prize
The Mancunian's album 'The Seldom Seen Kid' beats competition from bookies' favourite Burial, as well as Radiohead, Laura Marling and The Last Shadow Puppets.
Posted 10th September 2008, 1:19am in News, by DIY News Desk
Elbow are the winners of this year's Mercury Music Prize.The Mancunian's album 'The Seldom Seen Kid' beat competition from bookies' favourite Burial, as well as Radiohead, Laura Marling and The Last Shadow Puppets, amongst others.
Accepting the award (and £20,000 prize), frontman Guy Garvey claimed the award to be "quite literally the best thing that's ever happened to us".
The full shortlist was:
Adele - '19'
British Sea Power - 'Do You Like Rock Music?'
Burial - 'Untrue'
Elbow - 'The Seldom Seen Kid'
Estelle - 'Shine'
The Last Shadow Puppets - 'The Age Of The Understatement'
Laura Marling - 'Alas I Cannot Swim'
Neon Neon - 'Stainless Style'
Portico Quartet - 'Knee-Deep In The North Sea'
Robert Plant And Alison Krauss - 'Raising Sand'
Radiohead - 'In Rainbows'
Rachel Unthank And The Winterset - 'The Bairns'
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