resented in partnership with mobility app Free Now, the Mercury Prize is again for one more 12 months. It shortlists 12 albums for its award, to be introduced in a stay present subsequent week.
Whereas tickets have bought out, viewers can watch at residence on BBC 4 from 9pm to 10.15pm, in a present hosted by Lauren Laverne.
Right here’s what you might want to know in regards to the upcoming award ceremony, together with all 12 nominated artists.
When is the Mercury Prize 2022?
The 2022 Awards Present will happen on Thursday 8 September on the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith.
That includes stay performances from many of the shortlisted artists, the occasion will culminate within the announcement of the winner. Solely Harry Kinds, who will likely be on tour on the time, is not going to be there however will as an alternative present a filmed stay efficiency.
Who’s nominated for the Mercury Prize 2022?
The total shortlist of nominees contains:
- Fergus McCreadie – Forest Ground
- Gwenno – Tresor
- Harry Kinds – Harry’s Home
- Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler – For All Our Days That Tear the Coronary heart
- Pleasure Crookes – Pores and skin
- Kojey Radical – Cause to Smile
- Little Simz – Typically I Would possibly Be Introvert
- Nova Twins – Supernova
- Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Beneath
- Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure
- Moist Leg – Moist Leg
- Yard Act – The Overload
Who’re the judges for the Mercury Prize 2022?
Alongside the chair of the judging panel, Jeff Smith, the 2022 Mercury Prize judges are:
- Anna Calvi – musician and songwriter
- Annie Mac – broadcaster and DJ
- Danielle Perry – broadcaster and author
- Hazel Wilde (from Lanterns on the Lake) – musician and songwriter
- Jamie Cullum – musician and broadcaster
- Jamz Supernova – broadcaster and DJ
- Jeff Smith – head of music, 6 Music and Radio
- Lea Stonhill – music programmer, Radio X
- Loyle Carner – musician and songwriter
- Phil Alexander – artistic director, Kerrang!/contributing editor, Mojo
- Tshepo Mokoena – music author and creator
- Will Hodgkinson – chief rock and pop critic at The Instances
“Getting all the way down to 12 albums this 12 months was not straightforward, just because there have been so many outstanding ones to select from,” stated the judges in a collective assertion. “That serves as proof that British and Irish music thrives throughout unsettled intervals in historical past, with the albums chosen protecting all the pieces from imaginative pop to pioneering rap to Cornish language folks rock.
“We really feel that these 12 superb albums every have one thing to say artistically and socially, all in their very own distinctive, enriching methods. Now comes the actually onerous half – selecting just one total winner.”
What are the bookies odds for the winner of the 2022 Mercury Prize?
The most recent bookies odds for the winner of the 2022 Mercury Prize forward of tonight’s ceremony have been launched, and Little Simz, Self Esteem and Moist Leg are among the many favourites.
Prioritise Pleasure by Self Esteem and Typically I Is perhaps Introvert by Little Simz are presently favourites to take residence the prize on combination bookies web site Oddschecker, with odds of 11-4, intently adopted by Moist Leg’s self-titled debut album with odds of 4-1.
Gwenno’s Tresor is additional again at 16-1, whereas Yard Act’s The Overload is 14-1. Supernova by Nova Twins’ has been tipped at 16-1 whereas Harry Kinds’ Harry’s Home is at 20-1.
Kojey Radical‘s Cause To Smile is at 22-1, intently adopted by albums by Sam Fender and Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler.
