{"id":1393,"date":"2023-09-12T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T10:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/?page_id=1393"},"modified":"2023-09-12T11:47:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T10:47:46","slug":"mercury-prize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/mercury-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury prize"},"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=\"12\/09\/23 Live performance analysis (mercury awards)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ug_QC7vw5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">me and Nathan H. Discussing the performances at the mercury awards.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personal notes that I noted down whilst watching some of the mercury prize performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Raye\u2019s performance &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She performed &#8211; \u201cthe thrill is gone\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I\u2019ve never heard this song before but&nbsp;&nbsp;i really enjoyed the dynamics of her voice during the performance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She did a nice breakdown with her voice that then ensued a tempo change &#8211; i think it went half-time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She then got back to the original tempo and started to get the crowd to participate&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She also gave it up to the band<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the end she went Acapella&nbsp;&nbsp;which fit the mood really well after the performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Loyle Carner\u2019s performance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing \u201cHGU\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Another musician ive never heard before.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The quote at the start about parents needed the children more than the children needed them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I loved the repetitiveness of \u201ci forgive you\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Its a nice mix of rap and spoken word<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Telling a story about his past in the point of view of him telling his dad he forgives him for the stuff he experienced as a kid.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the end also going acopella and ending the story by saying hes lucky that they talk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ezra collective\u2019s performance:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing &#8211; \u201cvictory dance\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>very interesting start because it seemed like they were going to do a basic jazz but the saxophone and trumpet came in it sounded so good<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Im not a big jazz fan but I\u2019ve grown fond for the rhythmic attributes in jazz over the past year doing jazz in my instrumental lessons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The saxophone and trumpet were the main instruments although the drums, bass and keyboard were adding a bass-line and helping it all stick together by making the saxophone and trumpet sound more familiar every time they joined back into the song<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The drummer got a drum solo drum solo&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The keyboard got a keyboard solo&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was a very different style of instrumental music I\u2019ve ever seen performed live before and it is a good change in my perception of instrumental tracks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jessie Ware\u2019s performance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing \u201cfree yourself\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>reminds me of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She was singing in her vocal range and also had backup singers singing in other ranges that complement each other and make it sound like a small choir&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also getting the backup singers to do adlibs and also singing the last words of the line to have it like a hit in the face by music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Olivia Dean\u2019s performance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing \u201cCarmen\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>starts of sounding like Amy Whinehouse in her song \u201crehab\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She is shaking a shaker whilst singing so she is playing an instrument while singing&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I like the broad spectrum of instruments used in this song like the saxophone, steel-pan, bass guitar, drums, trumpet, trombone&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They all compliment eachother and sounds very diverse&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ends of with a quote&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Arctic Monkeys performance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing &#8211; \u201c There\u2019d better be a mirrorball\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The song Sounds very Radiohead inspired<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And i don\u2019t like Radiohead&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The lyrics are something that arctic monkeys could also perform in an alternative song&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But chose to have it sound like a 80s love song like \u201cput your head on my shoulder\u201d by Paul Anchor&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal notes that I noted down whilst watching some of the mercury prize performances. Raye\u2019s performance &#8211;&nbsp; She performed &#8211; \u201cthe thrill is gone\u201d Loyle Carner\u2019s performance: Performing \u201cHGU\u201d Ezra collective\u2019s performance:&nbsp; Performing &#8211; \u201cvictory dance\u201d Jessie Ware\u2019s performance: Performing \u201cfree yourself\u201d Olivia Dean\u2019s performance: Performing \u201cCarmen\u201d Arctic Monkeys performance: Performing &#8211; \u201c There\u2019d better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/mercury-prize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mercury prize&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1393\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10669156\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}