- Music
- 06 Sep 11
Mercury Prize Awards Ceremony tonight
Ireland and UK's leading music awards take place tonight in London, with live performances by all nominated artists.
Here's the list of this year's nominations:
Adele - 21
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!
Everything Everything - Man Alive
Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
Gwilym Simcock - Good Days At Schloss Elmau
James Blake - James Blake
Katy B - On A Mission
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
Metronomy - The English Riviera
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
PJ Harvey's Let England Shake is the absolute favourite for this year's prize, with Paddy Power offering odds of 5/4 on it and just 5/1 on the second runner James Blake's album. Adele's 21 has been given odds of 7/1.
PJ Harvey has already won a Mercury prize, with her 2001 album Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea. Back then she won against the likes of Elbow, Gorillaz and Radiohead. The latter have been nominated four times but never won the award.
The ceremony will be broadcast on BBC2 starting 10pm.
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