The Horrors and Friendly Fires perform at The Mercury Prize 2009

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Follow the link to check out the performance of Who Can Say by The Horrors at this year's Mercury Prize.
They were shortlisted for the prize on the back of their second album Primary Colours which completely blew away both critics and fans alike.

Here they talk about their nomination and what they wanted to achieve with the second album.

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On the other end of the spectrum, co-shortlisters and label mates Friendly Fires performed Jump In The Pool from their knockout self titled debut.

Follow the link to see Ed in all his hip shaking glory and click here to hear about their reaction to being nominated (and Lily Allen NOT being nominated - pretty funny stuff)