Posts Tagged ‘Barclaycard Mercury Prize

Last night I appeared on LBC 97.3FM to give my “expert opinion” as a blogger/broadcaster/human on the Mercury Prize. With Cristo Foufas I talked about the full list of nominations including Laura Marling and The XX, talked about what the prize means to the public and the music industry, and gave my tip for the [...]

You might have noticed that some award nominations got announced today. Well, clearly I’m going to weigh in on what should win because that’s how I do things.
This should win the 2010 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize because it is basically brilliant:

And this should win the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2010 because it is actually amazing:

If [...]


Welcome to Bitter Fingers - a blog about popular song. Written by the hand of Mark Higgins, it serves up the very finest in new music, radio shows, spurious comment and #1 jams.

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Literally some tweets

  • This Jessie J song. No, this one. It's not very good now, is it. 15 minutes ago
  • Janice Long just said "noisy sex parties", so congratulations if you had 1:30-1:40 in the sweepstake. 1 hour ago
  • Some cracking bird table patter on Pause For Thought this morning 1 hour ago

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