Further to this entry, James MacMahon of the NME
has outed this year's Mercury Music Prize judges, who last week gave the prize to Speech Debelle. The panel was:
Janice Long - Former BBC Radio 1 DJ, now of Radio 2 - (born 5 April 1955)
Charles Hazlewood - British classical music conductor - (born 14 November 1966)
Jude Rogers - Guardian music columnist
Arwa Haider - Metro newspaper music critic
George Ergatoudis - Head of Music, BBC Radio 1
Conor McNicholas - Editor of Top Gear magazine (formerly of NME)
Mike Flynn - Jazz editor of Time Out magazine
John Kennedy - DJ and presenter of X-Posure new music show on XFM
Mark Findlay - Head of Music, Global Radio
Dean Jackson - DJ BBC Radio Nottingham
They have a classical music person (despite no classical music being shortlisted for years) and a jazz person but no folk music expert. Plus lots of indie/rock people and lots of BBC people.
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