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Mercury Music awards 2025 in Newcastle

James said:
That record was actually quite good to be fair, but I agree it doesn't sit right that a band playing massive stadiums are even part of the conversation for this award. Feels like that's what the Brit Awards are for. The Mercury Prize should be about championing smaller bands/artists.
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Whilst I agree, it’s not exactly the first time this has happened. M People won in 1994, Pulp won a year after headlining Glastonbury etc.
 

is it bigger than wa Leeg Cup?
pablo casals said:
War on Drugs / Dire Straits / Springsteen rip off act

He's dull stuff but pretty much sums up the state of music in 2025
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i have just listened to it and its not bad actually. In a bland, how I described above, way.

brass band bits sound nice
 
Arkle said:
Whilst I agree, it’s not exactly the first time this has happened. M People won in 1994, Pulp won a year after headlining Glastonbury etc.
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94 and 95 then , and pulp were not meant to headline Glastonbury.

Only did it as stone roses pulled out, pulp only had 1 album with semi success before different class.
 
Grimes said:
His lyrics lack any type of subtlety like, singing about ship yards, kittiwakes, saveloy dips, and rockets. Hitting us over the head with sixth form politics mixed with Jimmy nail, total shit.
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Working class men with northern values. ‘We don’t rape up here’
 
Grimes said:
It’s like The Enemy all over again
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Worse.

‘My grandafther was a toolmaker on the Tyne, his hands were hard but he held my grandmother like it could be the last day he ever seen her before he left to walk the 8 miles to his 22 hour shift every winter morning’

Paarrrrp come on party people let’s get this place rockin’

That’s the gist of it isn’t it at his gigs?
 
OOOSH YEAH said:
Worse.

‘My grandafther was a toolmaker on the Tyne, his hands were hard but he held my grandmother like it could be the last day he ever seen her before he left to walk the 8 miles to his 22 hour shift every winter morning’

Paarrrrp come on party people let’s get this place rockin’

That’s the gist of it isn’t it at his gigs?
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Album artwork usually a block of flats, row of terraced houses, or a weathered old bloke in a flat cap smoking a tab
 
NYMackem said:
Fortunately I was watching with subtitles on

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i saw jarvis post on instagram last night that bbc4 mixed up the miss marple subtitles during spike island... :lol: spotted my brian eno apparently! :lol:
 
keema naan said:
10 page pull-oot in the Ronnie Gill the day aboot what this means for the geordie nation

mind you nee one would bat an eyelid if Tom Smith won the mercury at the fire station and sunlun songs were being sang when he went to collect his award imo there

remind me never to ask you for advice on lottery numbers there mate :lol:
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Been to see him three times at The Fire Station and no-one has sang football songs
 
Grimes said:
Album artwork usually a block of flats, row of terraced houses, or a weathered old bloke in a flat cap smoking a tab
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in this instances though i think using Tish Murtha's photo's from the elswick kids portfolio for 'people watching' has been a great move (imho).
 
Grimes said:
Album artwork usually a block of flats, row of terraced houses, or a weathered old bloke in a flat cap smoking a tab
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Correct, an allotment with a pigeon loft in black and white with two old blokes laughing.
errant said:
in this instances though i think using Tish Murtha's photo's from the elswick kids portfolio for 'people watching' has been a great move (imho).
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Christ has he? I love her stuff. What a shame.
 
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