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Awards
Mercury shortlist announcement coming soon
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 8 July 2009
And from music prizes modelled on the Mercury Prize to the actual Mercury Prize. Organisers have announced that this year’s shortlist will be, er, announced on 21 July by Lauren Laverne at the The Hospital in Covent Garden at 11.30am.
That might be all you need to know, really. Presumably you all already know that the shortlist of twelve is chosen by music professionals, presenters and journalists, so I don’t need to tell you that. You might want to know that the final announcement will be made at an 8 Sep awards show, which will be hosted by Jools Holland, and broadcast live on BBC2 with the aforementioned Laverne presenting the programme. Though you probably don’t really need to know that.
But I bet you do all want to know what Chair of Judges Simon Frith says about it all. Well, here it is: “It’s been an intriguing year for UK music and we once again saw a rise in the number of albums entered for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize. One of the continuing developments is the blurring of genres, with musicians clearly being influenced by a wide-range of sources”.
