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The Mercury Prize Awards 2008

 


Lauren Laverne presented this year's prestigious Mercury Prize for the best UK album of the year live from the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Tuesday 9th September.

The 12 nominated Albums of the year, by British and  Irish artists are announced in July with the overall winner of the Prize decided on the night of the Awards show in September.  The Mercury Prize Awards was televised on BBC Two, at 10:00pm.

The winner of the Nationawide Mercury Prize 2008 was Elbow, for their album 'The Seldom Seen Kid'


This years Shortlists were:

Adele '19
British Sea Power 'Do you Like Rock Music?'
Burial 'Untrue'
Elbow 'The Seldom Seen Kid'
Estelle 'Shine'
Laura Marling 'Alas, I Cannot Swim'
Neon Neon 'Stainless Style'
Portico Quartet 'Knee Deep In The North Sea'
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset 'The Bairns'
Radiohead 'In Rainbows'
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 'Raising Sand'
The Last Shadow Puppets 'In Age of the Understatement'