And the Mercury Music Prize winner is... ELBOW

they bore me so much...

with my Laura Marling prediction

Hope Elbow wins though.

:P

touche ;)

they are better than Britsh Sea Power mind so that gives them some points...

once this is over can you go back to mentioning Burial five times a day instead of fifty five?

Saying that, I do like the album and hope it wins. Shame he's not there.

untill he drops new material :)

will NEVER win it. And I like her!

Mega laul

what a nightmare of a day im having

think so :)

Good shout on Elbow

Great stuuf, well deserved!

didnt expect elbow to win

it shouldve gone to Radiohead. They made the best album by far. Elbow shouldve won it for Cast Of Thousands in '02

did you make?

with a cramped half hour show we got laverne and armitage

last year for two hours it was fucking whiley and holland and adrian edmondson. top marks BBC. well done.

and got em at 7/1

i could have swore i put a tenner on but i just dug out the slip and it was only a fiver so 35 quid, which is still ace.

fucking dull band wins fucking dull prize, i cant wait for next year now!!

spelling with added verve?

...well done Elbow anyway - they deserve this level of recognition!

does anyone acctualy know who the judges are?

but seriously, if you can actually to listen to this album three times without falling asleep or changing to something more interesting you deserve a prize all of your own.

And I like Elbow. Asleep in the Back would have been a good winner. But I guess M People were a better bet back then eh?

elbow better than burial. apparently.

Elbow are mud

There was only one album on that list that should've got it in my opinion, and even then it most certainly was nowhere near 'album of the year' status. Pretty poor shortlist.

but any recognition that Elbow get is met with a massive grin and a small cheer in my house.

Lovely stuff.

but it's a pretty worthy winner overall. Clearly, this is a nod with the intention of projecting them to 'the nest level'. They have the potential to fill the enormodomes in years to come.

and people like me pick up a few quid at the bookies.

The odds that I got were delicious

frankly, if I was on the panel, they could have the award for this song alone anyway, so fucking perfect in a Radio 2 but not shit kind of way that it is.

That's amazing! Ohh and that video of them I was there for that. They are beautiful beautiful beautiful.