Jamie and Amy face off for Mercury Music Prize (From Your Local Guardian)

Jamie and Amy face off for Mercury Music Prize

2:44pm Tuesday 17th July 2007 in Croydon By Dan Menhinnitt

Jamie T and Amy Winehouse will be battling it out with to win the coveted Mercury Music Prize.

The Wimbledon rapper's debut album Panic Prevention has been shortlisted against former Brit School student Amy Winehouse's Back to Black for the album of the year award.

Smokey-voiced Amy has already won a host of gongs this year, including an Ivor Novello award and a Mojo award for her hit single Rehab.

Jamie T beat music heavyweights like Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and Radiohead's Thom Yorke to win the Best Solo Artist title at the NME Awards earlier this year.

The 20-year-old shortened his full name Jamie Treays - because his fans had difficulty pronouncing his surname.

Commenting on this year's shortlist the chairman of judges, Simon Frith, said : "This year's Nationwide Mercury Prize shortlist celebrates a remarkable range of artists who use their albums to tell stories, shape moods, explore emotions and lift the spirits.

"The list marks the emergence of a wealth of eclectic talent making music with great energy, excitement and personality."

The winner will be announced on September 4.

The full shortlist

• Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
• Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
• Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford
  
• Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold
  
• Dizzee Rascal - Maths English
  
• Fionn Regan - The End of History
  
• Jamie T - Panic Prevention
  
• Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
  
• Maps - We Can Create
  
• New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
  
• The View - Hats Off to the Buskers
  
• The Young Knives - Voices of Animals and Men

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