Mercury prize 2011: Live blog

It's the most important day in the history of music! Or it's when a musician gets a prize while other people have something to eat. Either way, we'll be liveblogging the life out of it from 7pm5.04pm: It's Mercury prize time again! Those annual awards where the nation's music fans unite to say "It's a totally pointless industry ceremony dishing out an arbitrary prize" before banging on about what a disgrace it is that *insert triumphant band here* won it when it really should have gone to *inser...

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