They have continued to tour and headlined the Other Stage at Glastonbury in 2013, while also contributing to soundtrack to the film High Rise. The band then went on hiatus between 19 before releasing Third in 2008. Their self-titled follow-up made number two in the chart but 1998’s Roseland NYC live album was not as successful. A retrospective box set, Renaissance, was released in 2020.
Despite the lack of new material, M People continue to tour and main man Mike Pickering has pursued a successful A&R career, working with the likes of Calvin Harris. The band’s next three albums reached the top ten, but their last album was in 1997 and singer Heather Small issued a solo LP in 2000. In 1994 and '95 the band won the BRIT Award for Best British Dance Act. The band's two singles after the Prize both got into the top ten. As of summer 2021, the band are looking to start work on their ninth full-length outing. They reformed in 2010 and release their eighth album, The Blue Hour, in 2018. Follow-ups Coming Up and Head Music both went to number one but 2002's A New Morning didn’t do as well and the band broke up. Frontman Bobby Gillespie collaborated with Jehnny Beth from Savages on the album Utopian Ashes in 2021.įollowing the success of their debut, Brett Anderson's glam revivalists achieved more critical acclaim with follow-up Dog Man Star in 1994 but the departure of guitarist Bernard Butler grabbed more attention. They released their eleventh album, Chaosmosis in 2016 and issued a compilation in 2019 called M aximum Rock'n'Roll : The Singles. Screamadelica broke the band into the mainstream and they have achieved considerable commercial success since. Primal Scream - Screamadelica album cover. We take a look at the artists who have won the prize for Album Of The Year since the award's inception in 1992. But for a select few, that night of triumph doesn't always translate into sales/ Elegantly of course.The Mercury Music Prize usually gives the winner a career boost that sets them on the path to a long and prosperous career. These days, in order to maintain my penchant for pricey bars with a water view, I’m back to working in offices, but as a consultant who wears a Guns N’ Roses t-shirt and converse instead of silk blouses and heels. And never one to keep to a budget (or even work out a budget in which I must keep to) I found myself still trying to enjoy the perks of corporate high-flying, but with my new tortured artist outlook on life.
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Instead, somewhat impulsively, I packed it all in.ĭetermined to be as free as Lady Gaga’s hair or my hair or anyone’s hair, I decided to shun the traditional and be the tortured, trendy hipster I was on the inside. Of course chucking in my important office job meant I would be slumming it for a while. Really, what had slaving my guts out in offices done for me lately? I just wanted to dance in a pizza parlour and question my existence from birth right up to that exact point. I started to think maybe Meatloaf was actually singing about work when he said “I would do anything but I won’t do that” and suddenly Janet’s “What Have You Done For Me Lately?” took on a whole new meaning. Why? I would ask, every time I went to the fridge. Irritated by the mass of emails I received on a daily basis that just said “thanks” or the gab-fest meetings I would attend of which nothing was ever resolved, or how despite being clearly labelled with my name, the resident yogurt bandit would, with a regular monotony, help themselves to a few spoonfuls of my yogurt.
The more I pondered, the more irritated I became. So on this day, I decided to ponder what the hell I was doing with my life. Something like, “all sorted” with a smiley face emoticon. Usually I would respond with a one-liner. The one’s where the sender yells at you by capitalising every second word and using bold fonts with underlines and multiple exclamation points. One day, a day just like any other day, I received an email from a colleague.