{"id":218541,"date":"2025-10-16T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218541\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:15:09","slug":"mercury-prize-2025-sam-fender-cmat-and-pulp-among-nominees-as-newcastle-hosts-iconic-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218541\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Prize 2025: Sam Fender, CMAT and Pulp among nominees as Newcastle hosts iconic awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fontaines D.C.’s Deego on romance, poetry and credit scorespublished at 20:02 BST<\/p>\n

20:02 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Colin Paterson
Entertainment Correspondent, reporting from the Mercury Prize<\/p>\n

\"TwoImage source, PA Media<\/p>\n

Fontaines D.C. have had an incredible year: Grammy nominations, winning best international act at the Brits, and now, tonight, being nominated – for the second time – for the Mercury Prize.<\/p>\n

I spoke to the group on the red carpet ahead of the awards ceremony and asked group member Deego why he thinks their nominated album – Romance – has pushed them to a whole new level. <\/p>\n

“I think that there was something in the water that made people react to the album in that way,” he says.<\/p>\n

If the group were to release it seven years before, Deego thinks it wouldn’t get the same reception. <\/p>\n

He says it captures the struggle to maintain a sense of romance and idealism in a chaotic world. In fact, the group were brought together by a deep appreciation for poetry – even writing DIY poetry books dotted around shops in Dublin, he says.<\/p>\n

“I hope they never see the light of day,” jokes Deego.<\/p>\n

What next for Fontaines, I ask? Deego says, for them, it’s about doing “normal life stuff now” – like getting his credit score up.<\/p>\n

“Shouldn’t have skipped out on those bills,” he jokingly laments. <\/p>\n

If they win tonight, maybe that \u00a325,000 cheque will help. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fontaines D.C.’s Deego on romance, poetry and credit scorespublished at 20:02 BST 20:02 BST Colin PatersonEntertainment Correspondent, reporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-218541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}