It’s always embarrassing when you manage to show your ignorance of popular culture in front of your friends, especially when it comes to music. We’ve all done it: loudly singing the wrong lyrics on the dancefloor (‘Dancing queen, feel the beads on the tangerine’), getting the name of that hot new band completely wrong (‘Yeah, yeah, I really love the Kings of Neon’)… With new acts coming and going like there’s no tomorrow, it’s hard to keep up with what’s hot and what’s not.
Which is why everyone should love the Mercury Music Prize – because nobody has ever heard of half of the nominees. All of a sudden it’s a level playing field. True, this year’s list does include mainstream acts such as Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys, but the obligatory ‘who?’ space has been adequately filled by Basquiat Strings.
Hmmm. Perhaps you’d be more at home with Now 24 and Top Of The Pops 2. The nominees were announced at London's trendy Hospital club - and you can get the NavPix here…
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