Franz Ferdinand wins the Mercury Music Prize,

Franz Ferdinand wins the Mercury Music Prize,SEP 08 2004

Franz Ferdinand wins the Mercury Music Prize, the top UK music award.

There are 13 reader comments

Greg00 08 200411:00AM

Good thing too as it reinforces the fact that Glasgow is the "secret capital" of music, but will it be a good thing for them or the proverbial "kiss of death" like so many others

eric10 08 200411:10AM

There is indeed an awful lot of good scottish music out there these days.

tomcosgrave41 08 200411:41AM

The couldn't deserve it more. The album is great and they are superb live - no fuss, no messing, just a really good gig.

Morgan55 08 200411:55AM

Could this band be just a little more overrated ? And they beat out the Streets ? Ugh.

Yay for Scotland - even if claiming Snow Patrol is a bit much (they're just happen to live in Glasgow). Franz Ferdinand thoroughly deserve this though, cracking album and their appearance at T in the Park (Scottish music festival) was one of the highlights of my weekend.

All in a great list too - still not sure about Amy Winehouse though.. and Belle and Sebastian remain the great undiscovered band of our time.

jkottke20 08 200412:20PM

My favorite Scottish group: Boards of Canada. Thank you, Scotland.

Graham29 08 200412:29PM

Yeah, but The Streets album wasn't as good as the first, I thought. Saw B&S a month or so back; they are indeed very very good. But Franz Ferdinand are deserving winners, so no complaints here.

Golightly59 08 2004 3:59PM

Sigh ... all too young to remember Gang of Four then.

A Brief History of the Twentieth Century is a decent enough compilation.

This page at Amazon has some 30 second clips, have a listen to At Home He's a Tourist
and Not Great Men and you'll hear the similarity. Gang of Four were a little more overtly political in nature though.

RobH23 08 2004 5:23PM

Basically, yes. Too young - though I was alive at the time (I'm 32).