Mercury prize 2011

ACT Records: 'It doesn't happen like this in the corporate world'

When its star artist Esbjörn Svensson died in a scuba accident, ACT Records almost called it a day. Instead, it's just reached its 20th anniversary on top of the jazz world. By John Fordham

John Fordham

12, Jan, 2012 @9:49 PM

Bestival – review

Akin Ojumu celebrates triumphant performances from Björk and PJ Harvey at Bestival

Akin Ojumu

17, Sep, 2011 @10:30 PM

PJ Harvey has brilliantly evoked a nation built on bloodshed | Edward Vallance

Edward Vallance: PJ Harvey's prize-winning album skewers idyllic invocations of Englishness and exposes the brutal, violent reality

Edward Vallance

08, Sep, 2011 @9:45 PM

PJ Harvey interview - video

Following her Mercury prize triumph, PJ Harvey talks to Guardian music editor Caspar Llewellyn Smith about her prize-winning album Let England Shake

Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Richard Sprenger, Alice Salfield and Tayo Yusuff

08, Sep, 2011 @12:41 PM

Why Mercury prize 2011 winner PJ Harvey is a cultural treasure

When PJ Harvey won the Mercury for the second time, it was a victory for her intelligent, soulful music, and an album that resonates with our war-torn times

Laura Barton

07, Sep, 2011 @7:30 PM

PJ Harvey wins Mercury prize 2011 – video

Rebecca Nicholson talks to Mercury prize nominees and sees PJ Harvey win for the second time, for Let England Shake

Rebecca Nicholson

07, Sep, 2011 @5:17 AM

PJ Harvey wins the 2011 Mercury prize - in pictures

The annual awards ceremony took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

07, Sep, 2011 @12:07 AM

PJ Harvey wins Mercury music prize for the second time

Singer's latest album, Let England Shake, takes prestigious award 10 years after her first triumph

Alexandra Topping

06, Sep, 2011 @11:56 PM

PJ Harvey's Mercury-winning album: Civil unrest with rich melodies

Let England Shake is the highlight of a career that had already reached some pretty vertiginous artistic peaks

Alexis Petridis

06, Sep, 2011 @11:53 PM

Mercury Music Prize 2011 – as it happened

Coverage of the ceremony from the Grosvenor House hotel

Tim Jonze

06, Sep, 2011 @4:15 PM

Mercury prize albums: the best of your reviews

Adam Boult: We asked you to review the albums shortlisted for tonight's Mercury prize and you delivered handsomely …

Adam Boult

06, Sep, 2011 @2:45 PM

PJ Harvey favourite to win Mercury prize 2011

Let England Shake is bookies' favourite for 20th Mercury prize, with King Creosote and Jon Hopkins emerging as dark horses

Sean Michaels

06, Sep, 2011 @9:47 AM

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