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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rafael Behr

Oh, so it's the 'Nationwide Mercury Award' now is it?

That's Nationwide as in 'mortgages and loans', not Nationwide as in pertaining to the whole nation.

The prize that, according to the official site exists to champion UK music, is awarded tonight. Remember folks, that's champion UK music. Not 'new' music or 'alternative' music or any other such epithet of the sort that sometimes sneaks into the reporting of it, accidentally spilling a bit of credibility down the neatly ironed fronts of those music bosses and their natural partners - the financial services industry.

Did someone say Synergy? Who are they? The new Coldplay?

Update 7 September: Whatever.

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