{"id":56240,"date":"2025-10-02T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/56240\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:53:08","slug":"sam-fender-among-live-performers-at-mercury-prize-2025-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/56240\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Fender among live performers at Mercury Prize 2025 awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artist Sam Fender will be one of the performers at this year&#8217;s Mercury Prize ceremony after being shortlisted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the first time the prestigious music industry awards, which are taking place at the Newcastle&#8217;s Utilita Arena on 16 October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy0y0951x2zo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will be held outside of London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2025 edition will be hosted by BBC Radio 6 Music&#8217;s Lauren Laverne, from Sunderland, and be broadcast by the BBC. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fender, from North Shields, is one of 12 artists shortlisted for the best British or Irish album of the past year, including Emma-Jean Thackray, FKA twigs, Jacob Alon, Joe Webb, Martin Carthy, Pa Salieu, Pulp, and Wolf Alice, for the live performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artist Sam Fender will be one of the performers at this year&#8217;s Mercury Prize ceremony after being shortlisted.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-56240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}