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Elbow Win The 2008 Mercury Music Prize

At a ceremony in London tonight...

  • by Jason Gregory
  • Tuesday, September 09, 2008
  • Photo by: WENN
  • filed in: Indie Alternative
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Elbow have won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize for their fourth album ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’.

The band held off competition from The Last Shadow Puppets, Radiohead and favourite Burial to take the prize at a ceremony in London.

In addition to the award, the group also receive a £20,000 prize.

The band’s frontman, Guy Garvey, described winning the award as “quite literally the best thing that’s ever happened to us.”

He also dedicated the accolade to their late friend Bryan Glancy, who was an inspiration behind the record.

“He was one of the greatest men that ever lived,” an emotional Garvey told the audience.

Other groups nominated for this year’s prize included Neon Neon, Robert Plant and Allison Krauss and Estelle.

You can see all this year’s nominees on Gigwise HERE.

Mercury Music Prize 2008

 
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  • A very worthy winner and a superb record. Although Radiohead deserved it just as much - four nominations (five for Thom Yorke) and still no win for the greatest band of our time is a joke. Especially when the god-awful Klaxons won it last year. Yuk.

    ~ by Greg Palmer 9/9/2008

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  • I’m so proud of the band for winning this!

    ~ by Bob 9/9/2008

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  • Great news! A badge to wear with pride. Deserved winners this year.

    ~ by megawat 9/9/2008

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  • It’s an awesome record WITHOUT A DOUBT but NO WAY is it better than In Rainbows! Get to fuck!!

    ~ by Me 9/9/2008

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  • These guys(no pun intended!!) are superb,saw them in Vicar street earlier in the year,great live,good fun and Guy Garvey writes the most sublime lyrics,Starlings and One Day like this" have to be up there with the greatest of the last twenty years.Looking forward to them coming to Dublin in October,can`t wait,at last they have got the recognition they truly deserve!

    ~ by Paula Galvin 9/9/2008

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  • These guys(no pun intended!!) are superb,saw them in Vicar street earlier in the year,great live,good fun and Guy Garvey writes the most sublime lyrics,Starlings and One Day like this" have to be up there with the greatest of the last twenty years.Looking forward to them coming to Dublin in October,can`t wait,at last they have got the recognition they truly deserve!

    ~ by paula galvin 9/9/2008

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  • CONGRATULATIONS TO ELBOW WHO ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT ONE OF THE BEST UK BANDS, AND NOT JUST BECAUSE OF THE SELDOM SEEN KID! TALENTED AND THE MOST DOWN TO EARTH BLOKES YOU WILL MEET. VERY WELL DESERVED

    ~ by LYNSEY 9/10/2008

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