In other news, Arlo Parks just won the Mercury Prize!
She beat out Sault and Laura Mvula.
Laura Mvula tweets:
I get robbed. A lot.
Mercury Prize can lose my number.
The thing I learned about the Mercury Prize is that in order to get nominated a fee is paid to the organization running it, typically by the artists label. Which is why there is always outcry amongst fans when so and so isn’t nominated for it, because no one picked up the tab. Its become little more than just another marketing tool..
