{"id":14,"date":"2023-09-13T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T01:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2023-09-15T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:52:20","slug":"mercury-awards-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/mercury-awards-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Awards &#8211; 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mercury prize 2023\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rS8aHWHP-Wo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MERCURY PRIZE 2023<\/strong>\u00a0<br><strong>Winners<\/strong>&#8211; The Ezra collective won their well-deserved Mercury prize with their Exceptional Jazz instrumentals\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There should have been more Male Vocalists at the awards, I felt it lacked in Male performances.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Performances I Enjoyed:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jockstrap<\/strong>-I liked the performance because of the beat and the violin at the end. I didn\u2019t really like how high she was singing though.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>RAYE<\/strong>&#8211; Probably the best performance at the awards. I loved her voice and felt myself feeling the music&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Olivia Dean<\/strong>&#8211; I really enjoyed her performances because you can really tell by her angelic voice that she sang from her heart and gave her all.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ezra Collective<\/strong>&#8211; I think they did absolutely phenomenal as jazz performers&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Performances I did not enjoy<\/strong>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lankum<\/strong>&#8211; The main singer\u2019s voice sounded a bit offkey at some times and didn\u2019t really stand out for me.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Arctic Monkeys<\/strong>&#8211; They&#8217;re the Arctic Monkeys&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shygirl<\/strong>&#8211; I don\u2019t know if it&#8217;s just me but her voice sounded Grainy and off but maybe it&#8217;s because of nervousness.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERCURY PRIZE 2023\u00a0Winners&#8211; The Ezra collective won their well-deserved Mercury prize with their Exceptional Jazz instrumentals\u00a0 There should have been more Male Vocalists at the awards, I felt it lacked in Male performances.&nbsp; Performances I Enjoyed:&nbsp; Performances I did not enjoy:&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":673,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10668512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}