Alt-J Win Mercury Prize For An Awesome Wave.

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The Mercury Prize has gone to the hotly tipped indie quartet Alt-J for their album An Awesome Wave.

Joe Newman, Thom Green, Gus Unger-Hamilton and Gwil Sainsbury, who met at Leeds University in 2007, looked stunned as they collected the award - despite long being the bookies' favourites.
The genre-hopping electronic quartet beat acts such as rapper Plan B, real name Ben Drew, to win the £20,000 award at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London.
Singer-songwriter Richard Hawley, who was nominated for his album Standing At The Sky's Edge, narrowly missed out again - six years after claiming he was controversially "robbed" by the Arctic Monkeys.
Hawley, the oldest nominee, was also one of the favourites to win.
The singer-songwriter was one of 12 acts shortlisted for the prestigious prize.
But Alt-J beat established acts such as The Maccabees and Field Music, lesser known names and emerging acts such as Django Django.