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Mercury prize 2012

November 2021

  • ‘We experience a lot of harrowing things in our lives.’ Alt-J, left to right: Thom Sonny Green, Gus Unger-Hamilton and Joe Newman.

    Alt-J: ‘Feeling unsafe is something that’s quite foreign for men’

    The British band’s singer, Joe Newman, on how the trauma that followed the murder of a friend’s sister led to their songs about dark subjects

July 2016

  • Michael Kiwanuka

    Michael Kiwanuka: Love & Hate review – bittersweet soul-baring

    Mercury nominee Kiwanuka displays biting self-knowledge on the pain of failing relationships

2 November 2012

  • Alt-J win the Mercury prize

    Alt-J's Mercury prize win marks rise of boffin rock

  • Alt-J

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly podcast: Alt-J win the Mercury prize

  • Alt-J

    Mercury prize 2012 winners Alt-J - video interview

  • Mercury prize celebrates 20 years with award for Alt-J's debut album

1 November 2012

  • Mercury Prize music awards

    Mercury music prize awards ceremony - in pictures

  • Alexis Petridis

    Mercury prize winners Alt-J would have done well anyway

    Alexis Petridis
  • Alt-J

    Alt-J win Mercury music prize

  • Alt-J

    Music blog
    Mercury prize 2012 – live blog

  • From the Guardian archive
    Mercury prize at 20: 1992 shortlist for music award described as 'slightly eccentric'

  • Mercury prize 2012: readers name their winner

  • Mercury prize 2012: nominees - in pictures

October 2012

  • Plan B

    Mercury prize 2012 preview: nominations and predictions - video

    Guardian music writers Alexis Petridis, Tim Jonze and Rebecca Nicholson give their verdict on this year's Mercury prize nominees

  • Tim Jonze

    Mercury prize and Mobo awards: music's judgment week begins

    Tim Jonze

    Are nominations deserved? Are they out-of-date? Amid all the criticism, let's not forget music awards are supposed to be fun

  • Freda Black and Sam Lee

    Sam Lee's Romany folk music inspiration - video

    Sam Lee, whose album Ground of Its Own is nominated for the 2012 Mercury music prize, takes us to meet Freda Black, an 85-year-old Romany singer

September 2012

  • Joanna MacGregor

    Tom Service on classical music
    Mercury prize shortlists: why no classical music?

  • Cher Lloyd

    Mercury prize 2012: the shortlist that might have been

  • Django Django

    Mercury prize 2012 shortlist is more easily defined by what is missing

  • Lianne La Havas, Plan B, Richard Hawley

    Plan B and Richard Hawley lead Mercury prize 2012 nominations

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