Mercury Prize 2022 postponed out of respect for Queen Elizabeth II
This 12 months’s Mercury Prize ceremony has been postponed following the announcement that Queen Elizabeth II died this afternoon (September 8).
The crimson carpet for the occasion had beforehand been cancelled after Buckingham Palace issued an announcement earlier right this moment, which mentioned that “docs [were] involved for Her Majesty’s well being” and had “really useful she stay beneath medical supervision”.
The 2022 Mercury Prize ceremony was to be hosted by Lauren Laverne and broadcast on BBC 4 from 9pm-10.15pm BST and on BBC Radio 6 Music from 7pm-midnight.
“In mild of the unhappy information of the passing of Her Majesty the Queen, we’re so sorry to announce that we are going to not be continuing with this night’s occasion as deliberate,” Mercury Prize shared in an announcement.
“Mercury Prize will probably be speaking with friends and viewers members over the approaching days,” they added. “We thanks on your understanding at this tough and unhappy time.”
12 albums had been shortlisted for this 12 months’s Album Of The 12 months award together with Harry Types’ ‘Harry’s Home’, Little Simz’s ‘Typically I Could be Introvert’, Sam Fender’s ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’, Moist Leg’s self-titled album and Yard Act’s ‘The Overload’.
Eleven of the 12 nominees have been confirmed to carry out stay on the ceremony, which was set to happen at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith. Solely Harry Types was unable to attend, and deliberate to as a substitute pre-record a particular efficiency that will be broadcasted throughout the occasion.
Talking about her nomination, Self Esteem lately informed NME. “I’m not being coy, however I can’t consider what’s occurred. “I’d actually made my peace with being constantly underground and under-dogged. One thing has occurred the place folks have linked to [the album]. It’s nonetheless form of a slow-burn and slowly rising – it’s not like my life has modified in a single day – however my best pleasure is making music.”
Final 12 months, Arlo Parks walked away with the 2021 Mercury Prize for her album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’. A future date for this 12 months’s ceremony has not been shared right now.