Absolute Radio's Danielle Perry on judging panel for 2023 Mercury Prize
The shortlist will be revealed on Thursday
Absolute Radio presenter and music champion, Danielle Perry, is a member of the judging panel for the prestigious Mercury Prize with FREENOW for the sixth consecutive year.
Having previously judged between 2018 and 2022, Danielle is once again part of an independent 12-strong judging panel that has been meticulously listening to the many, many albums submitted by artists and record labels over recent months.
Musicians Anna Calvi, Hannah Peel and Jamie Cullum are also part of the judging panel alongside a variety of music industry figures from broadcast, journalism and beyond, including Jamz Supernova, Lea Stonhill, MistaJam, Sian Eleri, Phil Alexander, Tshepo Mokoena, Will Hodgkinson and chair Jeff Smith.
The Mercury Prize with FREENOW shortlist of 12 ‘Albums of the Year’ will be revealed from 11am on Thursday 27th July 2023.
The 2023 Mercury Prize with FREENOW Awards Show will be held at the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith on Thursday 7th September 2023.
The event will feature live performances from many of the shortlisted artists and the evening will culminate in the announcement of the overall winner of the 2023 Mercury Prize with FREENOW ‘Album of the Year’.
The Mercury Prize recognises the best new British & Irish music, celebrating artistic achievement across an eclectic range of contemporary music genres.
Since its inception as the Mercury Music Prize in 1992 when Primal Scream’s seminal masterpiece ‘Screamadelica’ won, albums by Suede (‘Suede’), Portishead (‘Dummy’), Pulp (‘Different Class’), Badly Drawn Boy (‘The Hour of Bewilderbeast’) PJ Harvey (‘Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea’ and ‘Let England Shake’), Dizzee Rascal (‘Boy in da Corner’), Franz Ferdinand (‘Franz Ferdinand’), Arctic Monkeys (‘Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not’), The xx (‘The xx’), Elbow (‘Seldom Seen Kid’), Dave (‘Psychodrama’) and Michael Kiwanuka ('Kiwanuka') have all triumphed over the past 31 years.
Radiohead have appeared on the shortlist a record five times, yet, despite being one of the most critically acclaimed acts of the past 25 years, they have failed to scoop a single Mercury Prize win.