So I woke up and I am supposed to go and check out the nominees for the Mercury Prize, at The Hospital Club, at 11am..do music industry people even wake up before 11am?

Kasabian played live right in front of me, while I was still trying to have my morning dose of caffeine, then comes Lisa Hannigan with her beautiful voice….Superb.

Then you enter the press room (and this is me with my blackberry) and there are ALL the nominees plus all the media you can think of.

There was my favourite album of 2009 - Speech Debelle’s “Speech Therapy” (here’s a piccie of me with Speech!)…a band whose members had the worst hairdos I’ve ever seen in my life…The Horrors (really? Could never guess), Florence & The Machine (Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - best video clip ever) she didn’t know how to handle the actual prize for the photo hence the strange position she held it in…Bat for Lashes´ Natasha Khan is the kind of girl I wanna be, cuuute…La Roux wasn´t there ( I believe she is in the US, good for you)…The Invisible band were there, and man they’re not Invisible whatsoever, and as you’ll see from the photos one of them is most definitely NOT INVISIBLE at all. You can check out all my photos from the Mercury launch here

And this years nominees are:

Florence + the Machine ‘Lungs’
Kasabian ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’
Speech Debelle ‘Speech Therapy’
Friendly Fires ‘Friendly Fires’
La Roux ‘La Roux’
Bat for Lashes ‘Two Suns’
The Horrors ‘Primary Colours’
Glasvegas ‘Glasvegas’
Led Bib ‘Sensible Shoes’
Sweet Billy Pilgrim ‘Twice Born Men’
The Invisible ‘The Invisible’
Lisa Hannigan ‘Sea Sew’