The Mercury Music Prize, founded in 1992, is an award given for the best Irish or British album of the year. The list of nominations for 2006 has just been released by pianist Jools Holland:
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am…
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballad Of The Broken Seas
Editors – In The Black Room
Guillemots – Through The Windowpane
Richard Hawley – Coles Corner
Hot Chip – The Warning
Muse – Black Holes & Revelations
Zoe Rahman – Melting Pot
Lou Rhodes – Beloved One
Scritti Politti – White Bread Black Beer
Sway – This Is My Demo
Thom Yorke – The Eraser