Mercury Prize 2005: LIVE

Mercury Prize will announce their winner of 2005 today. Lovely Jo Whiley and Jools Holland will host the Mercury Prize show. It will be broadcast on Radio 1 and Radio 2. So stay tuned tonight if you are awake. For those who are luckily in the UK at present, it will be screened live on BBC Four.

Time: Tuesday 6 September 2005 9pm-10.30pm

(Friday 7 Sep. 4am-5.30pm in Taiwan;
Tuesday 6 Sep. 4pm-5.30pm in NY and vice versa)

Channel: BBC Four; Radio 1 and 2

Playlist: Maya Arulpragasam (aka MIA)


Kaiser Chiefs


KT Tunstall


Antony & The Johnsons


The Go! Team


The Magic Numbers


Polar Bear


Bloc Party


Seth Lakeman


Full list of Nominees:


Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now


Bloc Party - Silent Alarm


Coldplay - X&Y


The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike


Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV


KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope


Kaiser Chiefs - Employment


The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers


Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger


MIA - Arular


Polar Bear - Held on the Tips of Fingers


Seth Lakeman - Kitty Jay

Kaiser Chiefs are favourites in the UK. Coldplay and Bloc Party stand in second and third place separately. Who will you bet on?