Mercury Prize and all that Jazz

Today, a big day for sure well overseas anyway. The Mercury Prize was announced. The shortlist consisted of:

Adele - 19

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

Burial - Untrue

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

Estelle - Shine

Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim

Neon Neon - Stainless Style

Portico Quartet - Knee Deep In The North Sea

Rachel Unthank - The Bairns

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement

Always some good build up to these awards and I am sure some good performances. I was following along on the guardian.co.uk live blogging of the event. I was hoping for Radiohead or Burial to take the prize. Alas, when the announcement came it was Elbow for a good album The Seldom Seen Kid. 

More news to come later today. But for now I have to get back to work. And I was only narrowly beat out by Pitchfork in announcing the winner. Darn, I need to type faster!!!

-Dave