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Ten years later in 2007, with the Arctic Monkeys, the Who and The Killers headlining, it was the wettest year in the festival's history.

Released on 6 June, the new Pulp album was produced by James Ford, who has worked with bands such as Arctic Monkeys, Florence and the Machine and Kylie Minogue.

The Mercury Prize is one of the most prestigious industry awards, with previous winners including Ezra Collective, Little Simz, Arctic Monkeys, Portishead and Pulp.

Today, Young’s debut sounds a little too polished; “This Wasn’t Made for You Anyway,” much of which she cut in L.A., has a punky, appealingly ragged quality — think Arctic Monkeys meets Mary J. Blige — that better suits her raspy voice.

Although not strictly a musician, Clarke is closely associated with the music scene - from punk to the Arctic Monkeys, who turned his 1982 poem I Wanna Be Yours into a song that was the closing track on their 2013 album AM.