Django Django, Plan B, Sam Lee announced for Mercury Prize gig
Django Django, Plan B and Sam Lee have been revealed as the next acts to perform at the Mercury Prize series of live events.
The trio of artists will play the special show at LSO St Luke’s in London next week (Wednesday 10 October), with tickets available through a ballot system here.
Jessie Ware, Lianne La Havas and Field Music are set to headline the first Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year Live’ show tomorrow night (26 September). Further gigs will be unveiled in the coming weeks.
The full list of Mercury nominations is as below:
Alt-J
Ben Howard
Django Django
Field Music
Jessie Ware
Lianne La Havas
The Maccabees
Michael Kiwanuka
Plan B
Richard Hawley
Roller Trio,
Sam Lee
Check out Best Fit’s own alternative Mercury list here.
- Nadine Shah, Moonchild Sanelly and Sue Tompkins to feature on Self Esteem's forthcoming album, A Complicated Woman
- Scowl announce new album, Are We All Angels
- Brown Horse announce their second studio album, All The Right Weaknesses
- Sumac and Moor Mother announce collaborative album, The Film
- Pan Amsterdam unveils new single, "Day Out"
- Index For Working Musik detail their second studio album, Which Direction Goes The Beam
- DITZ examine the commodification of queer culture on new single, "Four"
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