The stage is set! (There's no stage.)
The lights are lit! (There is no special lighting.)
The (GET ON WITH IT — ED)
Tonight in London a panel of judges will meet to award a prize fund totalling twenty pounds (cash) to the British pop single they consider to be the best of the last twelve months.
Every song on the shortlist (here's the whole thing as a Spotify playlist) is amazing. Here's that shortlist again.
» Adele – ‘Rolling In The Deep’
» Hurts – ‘Stay’
» Jessie J – ‘Do It Like A Dude’
» Joe McElderry – ‘Ambitions’
» Mark Ronson & The Business Intl feat Boy George etc – ‘Somebody To Love Me’
» Nadia Oh – ‘Taking Over The Dancefloor’
» Nicola Roberts – ‘Beat Of My Drum’
» The Saturdays – ‘Higher’
» Sunday Girl – ‘Stop Hey’
» Take That – ‘The Flood’
» The Wanted – ‘All Time Low’
» Yasmin – ‘Finish Line’
WHAT A CRACKER.
(US blog Vertigo Shtick did quite a good rundown of the songs, actually.)
There's more info on the shortlisted songs over on the Twenty Quid Music Prize microsite.
Judging will start at 7pm: keep an eye on Twitter because if tonight's rational debate goes anything like previous years we may require a few disputes to be settled by people who aren't drunk. The hashtag is #twentyquid.
