Radiohead - Mercury Music Prize Nominees Await 2008 Verdict

Radiohead, the Last Shadow Puppets and Elbow are among acts waiting to discover if they have won the 2008 Mercury Music Prize.

The winner of the esteemed award will be unveiled at around 22:00 BST on Tuesday.

Established acts such as Radiohead, Elbow and British Sea Power sit alongside rising talent such as Adele and Laura Marling.

However, there was no place in the shortlist - announced in July - for high-selling acts such as Coldplay or Duffy.

Simon Frith, the chair of judges, said 2007/08 had been a "remarkably rich year for British music"

"What is most contact is the continued resiliency and flexibility of the album as a way of organising music-making.

"It remains an unrivaled source of musical excogitation and imagination, a way of linking songs, exploring themes and developing sounds that is endlessly electrifying, surprising and worth celebration."

The current dearie to follow in the footsteps of Portishead, Gomez and Antony and the Johnsons is dubstep producer Burial, with his album 4/7 on to win, according to bookmakers William Hill.

The Mercury Music Prize 2008 short list is as follows:

Adele: 19
British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial: Untrue
Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
Estelle: Shine
Laura Marling: Alas I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon: Stainless Style
Portico Quartet: Knee-Deep In The North Sea
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset: The Bairns
Radiohead: In Rainbows
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement

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13th Annual Taste of Cleveland Offers Diverse Cuisine & Music

CLEVELAND, Aug. 18 -- The thirteenth Annual Taste of Cleveland
presented by Giant Eagle, Sobe LifeWater, Cleveland.com, The Plain Dealer
and WKYC-Channel 3, is an appetising tribute to the unique flavor and fare
of Northeast Ohio. The gastronomical salute to summer's end takes place
Friday, August 29-Monday, September 1, 2008 at Time Warner Cable
Amphitheater in downtown Cleveland.

Northeast Ohio is a true thaw pot for every civilization and culinary art
imaginable. "Restaurant Row" at Taste of Cleveland volition feature more than than
30 establishments portion dishes congressman of the town's classifiable
flavors.

While satisfying your taste buds enjoy Grammy Award winners and chart
toppers on the Bud Light Main Stage starting Friday, August 29 with Michael
Stanley and The Resonators (9pm) and special guest Donnie Iris and The
Cruisers (7:30pm). Jam to hits by Squeeze (9pm) and Winslow (7:30pm) on
Saturday, August 30. Catch Big Head Todd and the Monsters (4:30pm) Sunday,
August 31 along with Grammy winners Los Lonely Boys (9:15pm) and Dave
Barnes (7:30pm). Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes (6pm) will close out
another summer in Cleveland Monday, September 1.

After the smorgasbord of food and music, enjoy cooking demonstrations
at the Culinary Showcase led Saturday through Monday by Jenn Thomas, winner
of Rachael Ray's "So You Think You Can Cook" contest. On Saturday, August
30, local mayors team up with restaurants to compete in the Time Warner
Cable Mayors' Dessert Cup Challenge.

Time Warner Cable and We TV's Bridezillas will treat a match obsessed
with "Everything Cleveland" to an all-expense paying wedding and
rock-and-roll reception September 1 at 4:00pm, prior to the Southside
Johnny concert.

General admission includes all entertainment at no extra cost!
Admission is FREE 11am to 4pm Friday, August 29, courtesy of MIX 106.5,
with a portion of lunchtime solid food sales benefiting the Brian & Joe Rainbow
Radiothon. On Friday from 4pm to 6pm, kickoff the vacation weekend with
Happy Hour at Taste of Cleveland featuring specially priced Bud and Bud
Light for $1.25. Adult general admission is $7. Kids 12 and under FREE. For
information and discounts, travel to http://www.cleveland.com/tasteofcleveland or call
888.761.SHOW.



Event Hours:
Friday, August 29 11am to 11pm Free Admission 11am-4pm!
Saturday, August 30 Noon to 11pm
Sunday, August 31 Noon to 11pm
Monday, September 1 Noon to 8pm



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Worth Seeing

Here are our critic's choices of movies to see this weekend:

Baghead: The Duplass brothers ("The Puffy Chair") are doing something new in movies. In this, their latest, everything seems casual - the dialogue, the camera sour, the performances - simply underpinning the movie is a tight structure, one that accommodates the demands of comedy, romance and horror, patch exploring the nuances of character and a way of living. It's around four youngish actors world Health Organization go up to a remote cabin to work on on a screenplay and find themselves menaced by someone erosion a paper bag. At Bay Area theaters.

X-Men: I Want to Believe: This second photographic film version of the popular TV serial publication reunites the protagonists, Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny), in an effort to uncover the whereabouts of a absent FBI agent - and to square off whether a former priest is a clairvoyant or a pretender. The actors are terrific, particularly Anderson, who's credible and complex as a physician grapple with her faith and a complicated personal history. At Bay Area theaters.

Mamma Mia!: The adaptation of the Broadway musical has its flaws - nearly of the actors ar about 15 years also old for their roles, and Pierce Brosnan very can't sing. He seems in pain in the neck just nerve-wracking. However, don't think of it as a moving picture. Think of it as a kind of vacation. The setting is endearing (a Greek Island), the ABBA songs are good, the chuck is appealing, and it's lots of fun. At Bay Area theaters.

- Mick LaSalle

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40,000 Jordan LPs poo-pooed

FORTY thousand copies of a cheesy JORDAN and PETER ANDRE CD were found dumped
— and covered in BIRD POO.

Piles of the couple’s flop album A Whole New World were left to rot beneath a
filthy tarpaulin in a leaky storeroom.

It will be seen by many as a fitting end for the duff collection of 12 slushy
love songs.
Chart-ploppers .... Peter Andre and Jordan



Glamour model Jordan, 30, and Pete, 35, were inspired to record the CD in 2006
after warbling a duet of the title track at their wedding.

They murdered a series of tear-jerkers to go with it, including Endless Love,
Islands In The Stream, Cherish and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.

The album was a titanic disaster with many High Street retailers stuck with
thousands of unsold copies.

Truckloads were returned to distributors.

A Sun reader, who asked not to be named, was stunned when he found the 40,000
unwanted copies of the shocker at Bray Studios in Berks — best known for
Hammer HORROR film productions.
He said: "I pulled back the tarpaulin and couldn’t believe it when I
found all these CDs.
"I thought I’d stumbled on a stash of Coldplay’s new album ready for
sending out, so I was gutted when I saw it was some rubbish Jordan and Peter
Andre tried to get in the charts.

"Many of the CDs were covered in bird crap and had gone mouldy."

Jordan’s spokesman was unavailable for comment last night.
g.smart@the-sun.co.uk

Curtain Falls on Toni Braxton's Vegas Show

Recovery is going to be the only thing on Toni Braxton's to-do list for awhile.

The Flamingo Las Vegas announced Thursday the remainder of the R&B diva's shows at the hotel...

Death threats over Britney sex tape

Britney Spears' ex-lover has received death threats over his alleged plans to sell a sex tape of her.

Photographer Adnan Ghalib - who dated the Toxic singer earlier this year - claims he has been the target of Britney’s angry fans after it was revealed a video of the star performing a private striptease for him wearing just a pink wig was to be leaked on the internet.

Adnan said: "I have had many calls about it from all over the world. In light of the constant calls about the sex tape and threats, I’m taking a break from the industry and keeping a low profile."

Adnan - who once claimed Britney was pregnant with his baby - says he was stabbed in the arm in April after furious fans confronted him over their fears he was leading her astray.

Speaking about the incident, he added to Heat magazine: “Yes I was injured. This is still being investigated.

"I can’t say much about the cowardly attack other than, a) you better come a lot stronger than that if you want to make a point and b) most will be surprised by those behind it."

Adnan had a three-month relationship with the mother-of-two at the height of her alleged nervous breakdown earlier this year.

The sex tape was supposedly shot while the couple holidayed in Mexico in January.

Britney was admitted to hospital in January twice on mental health issues, but is now recovering, and recently returned from holidaying in Costa Rica at actor Mel Gibson's holiday home.





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Liam and Victor out of Big Brother

Liam and Victor have become the latest contestants to be evicted from 'Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack'.
Following Jade's eviction last week, Liam was the second housemate to be evicted from the house with Victor the third.
They faced the public vote along with Victor's sister Emilia and Jeremy.
There are now nine contestants left in the house.
More more on 'Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack' read our blog here.