Elbow Win Mercury Prize

Elbow Win 2008 Nationwide Mercury Prize for The Seldom Seen Kid

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The winner of this year’s Nationwide Mercury Prize goes to Elbow for their album The Seldom Seen Kid. The 20,000 pound Prize is given each year to the British or Irish artist who succeeds in creating the Record Of The Year.

Elbow beat out Radiohead’s In Rainbows, Burial’s Untrue, Neon Neon’s Stainless Style, the Last Shadow Puppets’ The Age of the Understatement, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand, British Sea Power’s Do You Like Rock Music?, Estelle’s Shine, Adele’s 19, Laura Marling’s Alas, I Cannot Swim, Portico Quartet’s Knee Deep In The North Sea and Rachel Unthank & The Winterset’s The Bairns. This is the fourth time Radiohead have been nominated, yet the British lads are yet to win.

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey was overwhelmed, stating that the award is, “quite literally the best thing that’s ever happened to us” in his acceptance speech.