Wet Leg have spoken about the “really cool” experience of seeing Harry Styles cover their single ‘Wet Dream’.The pop star recorded a live version of the song in May as part of a special Live Lounge session on BBC Radio 1. It came after Wet Leg – aka Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – were announced as the support act for Styles’ 2023 Australian/New Zealand tour.During a new interview with Apple Music 1, Teasdale recalled first hearing the ‘Harry’s House’ star’s spin on the track when the duo were in a splitter van on the way to a live show.“We were just on our phones, doing a good scroll sesh, and then gradually, one by one, we were like, ‘Oh my God, have you seen this? Oh my God, this appeared on the internet, and it’s Harry Styles covering ‘Wet Dream”,” she remembered.“Hester always describes it as [being like] we were watching intergalactic television like on Rick and Morty.
Harry Styles, Sam Fender, Little Simz, Wet Leg and more on 2022 Mercury shortlist
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This year’s Mercury Prize shortlist has been announced, rounding up the twelve absolute best British and Irish albums of the last year. No question. Actually, before you get all annoyed, it is a very strong list this year.
I wouldn’t like to have to pick a winner. Maybe let’s all just say that music is the winner and leave it at that, without naming an overall best LP of the year.But who is on the list? Well, if you want to do a bit of complaining – as I know you like to – maybe focus your attention on Harry Styles, who almost certainly doesn’t need the £25,000 prize money and/or any more recognition.Also on there are Sam Fender, Little Simz, Joy Crookes, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, Wet Leg, Yard Act, Self Esteem, Kojey Radical and Gwenno. There’s even something approaching metal on there this year, thanks to Nova Twins.
And Fergus McCreadie holds up the jazz end of things.Commenting on all this, the judging panel says: “Getting down to twelve albums this year was not easy, simply because there were so many remarkable ones to choose from”.“That serves as proof that British and Irish music thrives during unsettled periods in history”, they add, “with the albums chosen covering everything from imaginative pop to pioneering rap to Cornish language folk-rock. We feel that these twelves amazing albums each have something to say artistically and socially, all in their own unique, enriching ways. Now comes the really hard part… choosing only one overall winner”.They will have to do that though.
There are no plans to give the prize to music and call the whole thing off, as far as I know. They’ve booked the venue now, so they’ll probably have to do it. It’s going to take place at the Hammersmith Apollo in London on 8 Sep,
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Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler: “It doesn’t matter where music comes from – it’s supposed to last forever”
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Harry Styles, Little Simz, Wet Leg and More Make Mercury Prize 2022 Shortlist
Ellise Shafer The shortlist for 2022’s Mercury Prize has been revealed, and includes albums from Harry Styles, Little Simz and Wet Leg.This year’s ceremony for the prestigious award, which celebrates the best of British and Irish music, will take place on Sept. 8 at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith and feature live performances from many of the shortlisted artists.
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Mercury Prize 2022 shortlist revealed
Mercury Prize shortlist for 2022 Album Of The Year has been revealed.At 11am today (July 26), the Mercury Prize – in partnership with mobility app FREE NOW – confirmed that the 12 albums that have been shortlisted for the Album Of The Year award include Harry Styles’ ‘Harry’s House’, Little Simz’s ‘Sometimes I Might be Introvert’, Sam Fender’s ‘Seventeen Going Under’, Wet Leg’s self-titled album and Yard Act’s ‘The Overload’.You can find the entire list of albums shortlisted for the coveted award below.The awards show for the event will take place on September 8 at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith. Tickets for the event are now available for purchase here.It was announced yesterday (July 25) that a handful of musicians including Anna Calvi, Lanterns On The Lake’s Hazel Wilde, Loyle Carner and Jamie Cullum helped judge this year’s prize, alongside a range of broadcasters and critics.The Mercury’s official website has also noted that the 12 nominated artists will “receive a specially commissioned ‘Album Of The Year’ trophy, with the overall winner also receiving a winner trophy and a cash prize of £25,000”.This year’s Mercury Prize has also announced that it’s new headline sponsor is the FREE NOW mobility app as part of a “multi-year commitment from FREE NOW to support British music”.Last year, Arlo Parks walked away with the 2021 Mercury Prize for her album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’.