Nick Mulvey, Corinne Bailey Rae, Anna Calvi and MistaJam are among the judges for the 2015 Mercury Prize.
The Mercury Prize recognises and celebrates new music in the UK with recent winners including Scotland’s Young Fathers, electronic singer songwriter James Blake and indie act alt-j.
The shortlist will be announced on Friday 16 October with the overall winner to be unveiled at an event on Friday 20 November.
Albums by British and Irish artists with a UK release date between Tuesday 9 September 2014 and Friday 25 September 2015 (inclusive) are eligible
Lauren Laverne, the awards show host, said: ‘It looks like this year's Mercury Prize is going to be one of the biggest and best yet. There have been so many fantastic albums released over the past year; it makes it really difficult to predict the twelve that the judges will choose for the 2015 shortlist.’
The full 2015 judging panel is: Simon Frith (Chairman) - author and music writer, pofessor of Music, Edinburgh University; Anna Calvi - musician and songwriter; Corinne Bailey Rae - musician and songwriter; Elisa Bray - music editor, The Independent; Greg Cochrane - editor, NME.com; John Kennedy - Presenter, 'X-Posure', Radio X; Kat Morris - festival director, The Great Escape; Kate Mossman - music writer and broadcaster, arts editor New Statesman; Mike Flynn - music writer, deputy editor Jazzwise; MistaJam - DJ and broadcaster; Nick Luscombe - DJ and broadcaster, founder 'Musicity' and Nick Mulvey - musician and songwriter.
The event will be held in the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London on Friday 20 November and be hosted by Lauren Laverne.
The Mercury Prize recognises and celebrates new music in the UK with recent winners including Scotland’s Young Fathers, electronic singer songwriter James Blake and indie act alt-j.
The shortlist will be announced on Friday 16 October with the overall winner to be unveiled at an event on Friday 20 November.
Albums by British and Irish artists with a UK release date between Tuesday 9 September 2014 and Friday 25 September 2015 (inclusive) are eligible
Lauren Laverne, the awards show host, said: ‘It looks like this year's Mercury Prize is going to be one of the biggest and best yet. There have been so many fantastic albums released over the past year; it makes it really difficult to predict the twelve that the judges will choose for the 2015 shortlist.’
The full 2015 judging panel is: Simon Frith (Chairman) - author and music writer, pofessor of Music, Edinburgh University; Anna Calvi - musician and songwriter; Corinne Bailey Rae - musician and songwriter; Elisa Bray - music editor, The Independent; Greg Cochrane - editor, NME.com; John Kennedy - Presenter, 'X-Posure', Radio X; Kat Morris - festival director, The Great Escape; Kate Mossman - music writer and broadcaster, arts editor New Statesman; Mike Flynn - music writer, deputy editor Jazzwise; MistaJam - DJ and broadcaster; Nick Luscombe - DJ and broadcaster, founder 'Musicity' and Nick Mulvey - musician and songwriter.
The event will be held in the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London on Friday 20 November and be hosted by Lauren Laverne.
