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by Luke Slater
When Sweet Billy Pilgrim were unveiled as Mercury Prize nominees back in 2009 the people who were aware of them may have been surprised and the rest probably thought "who?". But now we know. That record Twice Born Men was quite great. The news now is that there's a follow-up to it, to be released this year. »
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by Luke Slater
Mercury nominees Sweet Billy Pilgrim have announced a new single - taken from the nominated record Twice Born Men - entitled 'Kalypso', which was also the track they performed at the Mercury ceremony. They are also due to set off on a UK tour at the end of October.»
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by Luke Slater
Yes! The Mercury Prize judges have come to a final conclusion, after all has been seen, done and heard and the winner is...Speech Debelle»
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by Luke Slater
Will she? Won't she? She is?! Why is she?! Yes, it's that time of year again where everyone gets pent up about the Mercury Prize before claiming that they don't really care much for it anyway. Mostly. And who is the favourite at this stage to claim the coveted prize? It's Florence + The Machine of course, for her/their album Lungs.»
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by Andrzej Lukowski
It's that time of year when everyone in the indiesphere leaps onto the high horse of telling everyone else what is wrong with this year's Mercury Prize shortlist, charges round the racetrack of rigorously protesting how uninterested they are by said list, leaps over the fence of stating the obvious about some of the nominees not being that famous, and then probably heads off for a good feed in the stables of pointing out that M People won it once. So let's do that.»