And the winner of the 2009 Mercury Music Prize is…
…Speech Dabelle. Wish I’d had the common sense to put a few quid on this, the citizensound favourite for this year’s Mercury Music Prize. And YES once again we got it right! Former Mercury Award winner and fellow citizen Paul Martin, who won it with Roni Size Reprazent in ’97 (famously beating Radiohead’s OK Computer)...
A Win, Win, Lose situation?
I'm sure some of you would have seen the Nationwide Mercury Music Awards on BBC4 the other night. The awards were founded back in 1992 by then Virgin Records MD, Jon Webster, as a way to champion the best in British music. The awards still seem to generate plenty of column inches in the press,...
Pete Jenner wins award after flying in to Venice
Pete Jenner, renowned manager of artists including Pink Floyd, T Rex, The Clash and still Billy Bragg kindly joined citizensound at the Venice Festival of Media. With a packed room of marketers, media agencies and media owners, he didn't disappoint. More on that later. He could only join us in Venice for the day, as...