The Mercury Prize 2007

[Riz]

- Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

- Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

- Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford - Basquiat Strings

- Bat For Lashes - Fur And Gold

- Dizzee Rascal - Maths And English

- Fionn Regan - The End Of History

- Jamie T - Panic Prevention

- Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future

- Maps - We Can Create

- New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom

- The View - Hats Off To The Buskers

- The Young Knives - Voices Of Animals And Men

Its on tonight on BBC Four at 9pm. WIll be interesting to see who wins.Id like a band like The Young Knives or Maps to win, but i see the Klaxons snatching it, they did bring a whole new style of music into mainstream, afterall.

[Nic]

ooh i don't know who i want to win - lots of good bands. i have no idea who i think will clinch it either. colin murray said on his show that he thinks bat for lashes will win but i think maybe riz is right with saying the klaxons. oh i don't know. guess i'll have to watch and find out...

[Ali]

Well, for me, it's going to have to be The View. It's the only album i'll put on my phone in full, i listen to it all the time and they're just a great band. I hope Dizzie rascal doesn't win it, he's nothing special. Wouldn't mind seeing Amy Winehouse get it, she's pretty deserved, good album. Perhaps Jamie T, i've heard that album, not bad.

[Riz]

I wouldnt mind Dizzee Rascal getting, saviour of UK hip hop an all that.

Theres only 4 people/ bands that id be annoyed if they won: Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse, Fionn Regan or Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford, the latter of whom i have never heard of.

Saying that, they probably will win. Anthony and the Johnsons? Who?

[Nic]

yeh i don't want those four to win either. i do like jamie t's album too though, so if he won, i would be happy too.

[Riz]

And he's oddly attractive...

[postie]

I would like to see Jamie T win it i love his stuff

[Nic]

yay for the klaxons :)

[Riz]

Weyy i was right. Well deserved i think, and thankfully not a repeat of the Antony and the johnsons year!

[postie]

yay i like the klaxons well done to them

[Lizzie]

I thought Amy Winehouse sounded amazing. Even if she did look dreadful!

[Riz]

That woman always looks dreadful.

[Ali]

That woman always looks dreadful.
Yeah but her voice was bloody amazin' last night! Almost brought me to tears. :010:

[Mitchell]

The Klaxons came off as horribly arrogant in their acceptance interviews (undeserved, in my opinion - their album was good at best, nothing groundbreaking). Then again, I don't hold the Mercury awards in any particular high regard anyway.