Elbowing in: Group wins prestigious award
Wednesday September 10 2008
ELBOW are celebrating today after being announced winners of this year's Nationwide Mercury Prize. Their album, The Seldom Seen Kid, beat 11 others to win the title and £20,000 (€24,900)at a glamourous ceremony in London last night.
Noted musical acts such as Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets, Adele, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, British Sea Power, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, Laura Marling, Portico Quartet, Burial and Neon Neon were also up for the award.
Elbow frontman Guy Garvey said, as the band collected their award:
"I know we're supposed to be cool but this is quite literally the best thing that has ever happened to us.''
Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant had earlier told the audience at London's Grosvenor House Hotel that the last two years, which have seen him collaborate with bluegrass superstar Alison Krauss, "have been the most liberating part of my - well I can't remember many things too far back''.
- - Vicky Shaw
