Thursday 30 October 2014

MERCURY PRIZE 2014 - YOUNG FATHERS WIN 



Well that was a turn up for the books.

A hip-hop trio from Scotland won this year's Mercury Prize with their album Dead, an album that sold barely 2,500 copies in the first few months after its release back in the early spring of this year. They are Young Fathers and were considered to be outsiders in the Awards Ceremony held on Thursday at Camden's Round House in London. The bookies' favourites were Royal Blood, FKA Twigs and Kate Tempest, but the £20,000 prize - modest though that be - goes to an intriguing choice. The big benefit to Young Fathers will be the added sales that this success will generate. One of the other bands - Royal Blood - reckoned that in the month or so between appearing on the short list and the ceremony itself, they sold some 60,000 albums. Young Fathers should be able to sell considerably more than that - and also get a touring boost too. 
Young Fathers
Alan Dorey/30th October 2014  
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