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Alt-J scoop Mercury music prize

Indie quartet Alt-J have won the prestigious Barclaycard Mercury Prize for their album An Awesome Wave.

The four boys, who met at Leeds University in 2007, looked stunned as they collected the award - despite long being the bookies' favourites.

After five years of hard work, the band beat acts such as rapper Plan B 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".

Source: music.uk.msn.com
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