{"id":1698,"date":"2011-10-28T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2011-10-28T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T14:15:53","slug":"welsh-music-prize-vox-pop-your-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/10\/28\/welsh-music-prize-vox-pop-your-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Music Prize vox pop: your winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A high profile panel of judges has awarded the Welsh version of the Mercury Music Prize to the Super Furry Animals frontman.<\/h2>\n<p>The first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/welshmusicprize.com\/\">Welsh Music Prize<\/a>\u00a0was awarded to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gruffrhys.com\/\">Gruff Rhys<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, in a ceremony at Cardiff\u2019s Kuku Club as part of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swnfest.com\/\">S\u0175n Festival<\/a>\u00a02011.<\/p>\n<p>Winning the award for his album\u00a0<em>Hotel Shampoo<\/em>, Rhys looked genuinely surprised as he got on stage and told the audience he hadn&#8217;t expected to win, and that everyone nominated deserved it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/music_3_WMP1_big_AH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1702\" title=\"music_3_WMP1_big_AH\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/music_3_WMP1_big_AH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/music_3_WMP1_big_AH.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/music_3_WMP1_big_AH-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1702\" title=\"music_3_WMP1_big_AH\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/music_3_WMP1_big_AH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/music_3_WMP1_big_AH.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/music_3_WMP1_big_AH-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simon Casey selling his hats on Queen Street: He doesn&#039;t know any Welsh bands<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nominees included\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manicstreetpreachers.com\/global\/frontpage?cmdr=ip2country\/detected\">Manic Street Preachers<\/a>\u00a0and emerging artists such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yniwl.com\/\">Y Niwl<\/a>. The winner was decided by a panel including NME deputy editor Mike Williams and Ashli Todd from Spillers Records.<\/p>\n<p>We went out in Cardiff City Centre and asked people who they would award their own Welsh Music Prize to and why?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themmp.tv\/\">The MMP<\/a>\u00a0filmed at the ceremony. Watch their video\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-_YFC8ZleiI&amp;feature=youtu.be\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read our preview\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=632\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high profile panel of judges has awarded the Welsh version of the Mercury Music Prize to the Super Furry Animals frontman. The first\u00a0Welsh Music Prize\u00a0was awarded to\u00a0Gruff Rhys\u00a0on Friday, in a ceremony at Cardiff\u2019s Kuku Club as part of\u00a0S\u0175n Festival\u00a02011. Winning the award for his album\u00a0Hotel Shampoo, Rhys looked genuinely surprised as he got on stage and told the audience he hadn&#8217;t expected to win, and that everyone nominated deserved it. Nominees included\u00a0Manic Street Preachers\u00a0and emerging artists such as\u00a0Y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":1869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[743,744,530,531,745],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-gruff-rhys","tag-manic-street-preachers","tag-swn-festival","tag-welsh-music-prize","tag-y-niwl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Welsh Music Prize vox pop: your winner - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/10\/28\/welsh-music-prize-vox-pop-your-winner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Welsh Music Prize vox pop: your winner - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A high profile panel of judges has awarded the Welsh version of the Mercury Music Prize to the Super Furry Animals frontman. 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