Comments on: Mercury Music Prize shortlist

By: Tomas

Tomas — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:50:47 +0000

Here is a link to a radio interview with Green broadcasted by the New York based station WNYC

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2006/07/18#segment62268

Best
Thomas

By: Richard W

Richard W — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:47:51 +0000

Earlier this week I saw WBBB prominently displayed in my local HMV with the other Mercury nominees. By contrast, I tried to buy it in its week of release in that same shop and it was not even available. So I’m grateful for that even though I still think the music world is not enhanced by awards.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:13:52 +0000

Yep, I was dancing at the front too Richard. I think I’d got over the ‘can’t believe this’ of seeing Green live having seen him at Hay before. There were 2 right miserable buggers near me - the woman of the couple kept making comments about the sound balance and was clearly not a fan and determined not to enjoy herself. Happily I could ignore her and was having a great time with a stupid grin on my face all the way through.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:53:15 +0000

“..no dancing at Oxford Zodiac. …”

I was right at the front and danced all night, as did the person next to me. I only stopped to take pics!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:58:20 +0000

Congratulations! Granted, all those awards things are kind-of icky, but still - it’s nice that such a great album is getting some well-deserved recognition. As for the other nominees, I had no idea Lou Rhodes had an album out (I’ll definitely be hunting for that one) but…

…Muse? Really?! Ugh.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:08:20 +0000

This made my day, WBBB is so layered and excellent, the indy today mentioned the beats specifically and that’s the best thing about the CD - the beats are genius.

Re: no dancing at Oxford Zodiac. The band played mostly WBBB tracks and I reckon they’re pretty much undanceable. I think that the other factor was that a lot of people there were getting their head round seeing Green play live.

The other impression I had at Oxford was that the audience was pretty young and that was great to see.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:57:41 +0000

Do they still do televised performances from the nominees?

By: Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:47:44 +0000

It is good news. I’m surprised to see WBBB on the list because the album clearly isn’t in there as a token example of a particular genre (the token ‘folky’, the token ‘modern classical’, the token ‘world-music-influenced’, etc.) so must be included just because those nominating/shortlisting actually enjoyed it. Can’t be bad. (Sorry, but I still don’t think it will win - it doesn’t win enough coolness points for those who know about it.

By: russell richardson

russell richardson — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:35:47 +0000

I doubt whether GG will be much troubled by winning or not winning, but it is certain that this is huge publicity and should get a lot more people listening to the music (and therefore buying it). No more worries about losing the home, then?

By: Ernst

Ernst — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:27:26 +0000

Here is a Wikipedia entry on the Mercury Music Prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Music_Prize