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Mercury prize

July 2024

  • Mercury rising … (L-R) Charli xcx, Corinne Bailey Rae and Beth Gibbons.

    Mercury prize 2024: Charli xcx, the Last Dinner Party and Beth Gibbons among nominees

    The British music industry’s award for outstanding albums features eight debuts, from the likes of Nia Archives and Barry Can’t Swim, as the prize fails to find a sponsor

June 2024

  • Jamilla Walters, AKA Jamz Supernova.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    DJ Jamz Supernova: ‘I’d always seen Glastonbury as a kind of debaucherous party’

    The broadcaster and record label owner on swapping BBC 1Xtra for 6 Music, overcoming her fear of swimming, and leaving the radio on for her dog

March 2024

  • Christopher Nolan

    Nearly half of UK award nominees in last decade were privately educated

  • ‘Life changing’ … Shabaka Hutchings says learning the flute has made him a better sax player.

    ‘I don’t want to be a legacy performer’: why Britain’s hottest jazz star is giving up his sax for the flute

September 2023

  • Hugh Muir

    Take the vitality of diverse Britain, set it to music. That’s why Ezra Collective deserve their Mercury prize

    Hugh Muir
  • Alexis Petridis

    Ezra Collective’s Mercury win finally acknowledges a golden age for UK jazz

    Alexis Petridis
  • Ezra Collective at the 2023 Mercury prize ceremony.

    Mercury prize 2023: London group Ezra Collective secure first ever jazz win

  • ‘We’re a total anomaly’ … from left to right, Ian Lynch, Cormac Mac Diarmada, Radie Peat and Darragh Lynch.

    ‘We are extreme’ … how Lankum’s heavy mutant folk made them Mercury favourites

July 2023

  • (L-R) J Hus, Alex Turner and Raye.

    Mercury prize 2023: Arctic Monkeys tie Radiohead’s record for most nominations

    There are first-time nods for the likes of Fred Again, Lankum, Jockstrap and Raye, and repeat recognition for acts including J Hus and Jessie Ware

October 2022

  • Britain’s Booker prize-winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

    The Guardian view on the Booker: one award with hundreds of judges

    Editorial: Many have an opinion on the latest winner of the UK’s top literary prize, Shehan Karunatilaka. It’s a shame not all of them have read his book
  • Alexis Petridis

    Little Simz’s subtle arrangements and fearless lyrics make her a worthy Mercury prize winner

    Alexis Petridis
    An outlier in UK rap, the north London musician and actor’s patient “10 years in the game”, as she puts it on her winning album, have paid off
  • Little Simz performs after winning the Mercury prize.

    Mercury prize: Little Simz wins for Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

    Rapper and actor, 28, wins for her fourth album after critical acclaim and a decade as a performer

September 2022

  • Amy Love and Georgia South of Nova Twins attend the Mercury prize 2022 shortlist announcement on 26 July

    Mercury prize postponed owing to death of Queen Elizabeth II

  • ‘How to draw the listener close while still carrying a lustre?’ … (L-R) Joy Crookes, Harry Styles and Gwenno.

    The music essay
    All back to mine: Harry’s House sets domestic tone for 2022 Mercury prize

July 2022

  • Best of British … (L-R) Little Simz, Self Esteem and Sam Fender.

    Mercury prize: Sam Fender, Harry Styles and Self Esteem lead pack of first-time nominees

    Women including Little Simz and Jessie Buckley dominate this year’s cohort for the best British album of the year, which falters on recent diversity gains

January 2022

  • BBC Folk Awards 2016 At Royal Albert Hall In London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 27: Norma Waterson receives the Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Folk Awards at Royal Albert Hall on April 27, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Christie Goodwin/Redferns)

    Norma Waterson obituary

    Celebrated singer of traditional English folk music whose embrace of other musical styles won her a wide following

September 2021

  • Arlo Parks performs at the Village Underground. London, 13/9/21

    Kitty Empire's artist of the week
    Arlo Parks review – heart-rending and frustrating

  • Alexis Petridis

    Arlo Parks’ warm voice and diaristic lyrics rightly earn her the Mercury prize

    Alexis Petridis
  • Arlo Parks at the 2021 Mercury prize ceremony.

    Mercury prize 2021: Arlo Parks wins for Collapsed in Sunbeams

  • Mercury prize nominee Celeste at the launch party in July.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: who will win the 2021 Mercury prize?

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