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08 September 2008

MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE 2008 - NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED!

Check out who's up for the highly coveted award this year

This year’s Mercury nominations have been announced and the 2008 nominees for this coveted prize include Radiohead's ‘In Rainbows’ and Estelle's ‘Shine’.

The Arctics’ Alex Turner has scored his third nomination in a row for ‘The Age of the Understatement’, the debut album from his side-project The Last Shadow Puppets with Rascals frontman Miles Kane. Arctic Monkeys won the prize in 2006 for their debut ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not’ and were nominated the year after for ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’.

Previous winners of the Mercury Prize include PJ Harvey, Dizzee Rascal and last year, new-rave pioneers the Klaxons took gong for their debut album ‘Myths of the Near Future’.

The prize was founded in the early 90s as an alternative to the commercialism of the Brit awards.

See the full list of nominees below:

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 - The Age of the Understatement
The overall winner will be announced at the awards ceremony in September.

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