this off yesterdays cybersleaze:
quoted 17 lines SURPRISE, SURPRISE!! A rank outsider ran off with the prestigious MERCURY MUSIC> SURPRISE, SURPRISE!! A rank outsider ran off with the prestigious MERCURY MUSIC
> PRIZE last night - sweeping it away from under the noses of bookmakers'
> favourites RADIOHEAD. RONI SIZE's NEW FORMS album with his group REPREZENT took
> the trophy and the $40,000 prize money - and declared it a victory for dance
> music. Size said, "People can now see that they can eat and live off this music.
> Dance music is obviously not a passing phase any more." New Forms was ranked
> at 16-1 by bookmakers in the run-up to the awards ceremony, held at the GROSVENOR
> HOUSE HOTEL in London, while Radiohead's OK COMPUTER and PRODIGY's THE FAT OF
> THE LAND were believed to be the favorites. But neither Radiohead nor Prodigy
> chose to attend the ceremony, leaving Size to bask in the glory with his
> seven-piece band. He said he would be sharing the prize money between each
> member of the group, who he explained all had "their own causes" to donate
> cash to. His victory was not, however, achieved without a struggle. Mercury
> Music Prize chairman SIMON FRITH admitted, "There were some people who hated
> the eventual winner and some who loved it, so this year the field was wide open."
> He added, "We do think Radiohead's OK Computer was a classic record, but in the
> end we were agreed that the winner was Roni Size."