Scots artists have traditionally fared well in the Mercury Music Prize, which can be traced back to 1992.
The award has come north of the border on three occasions with Primal Scream, Franz Ferdinand and Young Fathers topping the list in 1992, 2004 and 2014 respectively.
This year's winner will be announced on November 20 and Scotland is again represented in the nominations, this time by C Duncan who recorded his debut album, Architect, for £50 in a Glasgow flat.
We speak to C Duncan tomorrow . . . in the meantime here are the 11 previous Scots recipients of a coveted Mercury Prize nomination.
1992 Primal Scream won the first Mercury Prize, with Screamadelica, managing in the process to beat The Jesus and Mary Chain’s album Honey’s Dead (and, incidentally, U2’s Achtung Baby).
1995 Scots composer James MacMillan was shortlisted for his work, Seven Last Words from the Cross. The winner was Portishead’s Dummy.
1996 Orkney-based composer Peter Maxwell-Davies and the BBC Philharmonic found themselves on the list for The Beltane Fire. The winner? Pulp’s Different Class.
1997 Primal Scream were again shortlisted, for Vanishing Point. Roni Size/Reprazent won with New Forms.
2000 Glasgow’s The Delgados, nominated for The Great Eastern, couldn’t prevent Badly Drawn Boy making off with the prize for his album, The Hour of Bewilderbeast.
2004 Franz Ferdinand became the first Scottish winners in 12 years with their self-titled debut studio album, beating acts including Belle and Sebastian (Dear Catastrophe Waitress) and Snow Patrol, who had come together at Dundee University, and who were nominated for Final Straw.
2005 KT Tunstall was nominated the following year (for Eye to the Telescope). Winner: Antony and the Johnsons’ I Am a Bird Now.
2006 Isobel Campbell, formerly of Belle and Sebastian, was on the list for Ballad of the Broken Seas, her collaboration with Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees/Queens of the Stone Age). Winner: Arctic Monkey’s Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
2007 Another Dundee outfit, The View, hoped to win the accolade 12 months later with their platinum-selling debut, Hats off to the Buskers, but Klaxons won instead, with Myths of the Near Future.
2009 It was the turn of Glasvegas, with their debut album. Speech Debelle won with Speech Therapy.
2010 Ayrshire’s Biffy Clyro were nominated with Only Revolutions. The winner? The xx.
2011 Fife’s King Creosote (Kenny Anderson) was on the list with Jon Hopkins for Diamond Mine. The prize went to PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake.
2014 The Edinburgh-based hip-hop trio Young Fathers won the coveted prize, with Dead.
So excited to be nominated for #MercuryPrize!!!! Thanks everyone for your support!!!!
— C Duncan (@mrchrisduncan) October 16, 2015
2015 The nominees: Syro - Aphex Twin; At Least For Now - Benjamin Clementine; Architect - C Duncan; Eska - Eska; How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence + The Machine; Matador - Gaz Coombes; Shedding Skin - Ghostpoet; In Colour - Jamie xx; Hairless Toys - Róisín Murphy; Are You Satisfied? - Slaves; Before We Forgot How To Dream - SOAK; My Love Is Cool - Wolf Alice.
See Sunday Herald Life for our interview with Roisin Murphy this weekend
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