Broadcast live on BBC Four from the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House and presented by Lauren Laverne, this year’s Awards Show celebrated the 12 albums that have been shortlisted for the 2015 Mercury Prize in association with BBC Music.
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It was good night for North London and a poignant night for Paris.
The 19-year-old – real name Bridie Monds-Watson – picked up the Northern Ireland Music Prize for best album at a ceremony in the Mandela Hall in Belfast last weekend and will be hoping for another win this evening.
The singer songwriter began writing from the age of 13, but said she had learned from touring with musicians she admires since then.
“It made me realise we live in a very unsafe world”, he said.
Collecting the winner’s trophy and £25,000, the 26-year-old added: “I’d like to thank music”.
The judging panel called Clementine’s debut album “dramatic, intimate and pulsatingly original” and hailed him as “a remarkable new pianist and singer”.
She said: “It really helps an artist’s sense that they’ve really achieved something and that their work is recognised, even if it’s not necessarily the most commercially-successful album”.
Florence’s How Big, How Blue, How handsome will compete against established acts such as former nominee Ghostpoet’s third offering Shedding Skin.
The record, which was recorded at RAK Studios in London and produced by both Benjamin and Jonathan Quarmby, beat the likes of Florence + The Machine and Jamie xx to become the latest Album of the Year victor.
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Aphex Twin’s Syro rounded out the nominees.
