Alt-J win Mercury music prize

Four-piece who met at university beat acts including Field Music, Jessie Ware and Richard Hawley to £20,000 awardIndie quartet Alt-J, also written as ∆, have won the prestigious Mercury prize for their album An Awesome Wave.The four-piece, who met at Leeds University in 2007, looked stunned as they collected the award - despite long being the bookmakers' favourites.After five years of hard work, the band beat acts such as rapper Plan B, singer Jessie Ware and Sunderland brothers Field Music t...

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