{"id":218129,"date":"2025-10-16T20:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218129\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:23:09","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\/ca\/218129\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Prize 2025: Sam Fender, CMAT and Pulp among nominees as Newcastle hosts iconic awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

CMAT aims to become Mercury’s first Irish winnerpublished at 20:33 BST<\/p>\n

20:33 BST<\/p>\n

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

\"IrishImage source, Euan Cherry\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

CMAT has emerged as the bookie’s favourite to win tonight. She’s been on a big upwards trajectory, having been nominated for the Mercury Prize in two consecutive years, touring her third album Euro-Country across the world.<\/p>\n

I asked her how significant it is to be up for the prize once again in such quick succession.<\/p>\n

“I was a bit like maybe I shouldn’t release the two records close together, but I think it’s testament to how they’re not really looking at anything other than records and albums”, she says. <\/p>\n

She describes her ability to talk as “a bit gobbledygook-y”, with the amount of antibiotics she’s on because her wisdom teeth have been removed. <\/p>\n

“I was supposed to do Paris fashion week and my entire cheek was connected to my neck, it was so swollen,” she says.<\/p>\n

I teased her about how difficult it must have been for her to keep her mouth shut for a week, “Wow – I mean rude but accurate to be fair, very, very accurate,” she joked.<\/p>\n

Alongside post-punk sensation Fontaines DC, she has the opportunity tonight to become the first Irish winner of the Mercury Prize.<\/p>\n

“I think it would be really nice for a record that is predominantly about Ireland to be the first Irish winner.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CMAT aims to become Mercury’s first Irish winnerpublished at 20:33 BST 20:33 BST Colin PatersonEntertainment Correspondent, reporting from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-218129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}