{"id":487602,"date":"2026-02-18T09:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487602\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:13:07","slug":"newcastle-to-host-the-mercury-prize-for-the-second-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487602\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle to host the Mercury Prize for the second year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The awards ceremony will be held on 22 October and will be a collaboration between music industry body BPI, the council and Newcastle-based music developer Generator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year&#8217;s ceremony was also celebrated through the Mercury Fringe, a series of concerts which showcased musicians from across the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Generator CEO Mick Ross said the fringe programme created &#8220;real opportunities&#8221; for musicians and this year it would be even bigger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This year, we&#8217;re going further &#8211; expanding access, opening more pathways and ensuring northern artists don&#8217;t just take part, but set the agenda,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When Mercury left London, it proved the North has the talent, infrastructure and ambition to lead at the highest level.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The awards ceremony will be held on 22 October and will be a collaboration between music industry body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-487602","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\/487602","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=487602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}