Five Things We Learned as Skepta Beats David Bowie to the Mercury Prize
As a survey of the state of the music industry there is little to compare with the big prizes " the Grammys above all, but also the MTV Awards, the Brits and the Mercury Prize.Here are five things that we learned from the UK's Mercury ceremony last night.Number one: expect the unexpected As ever, things did not go to script, which is always the plan at one of the most prestigious awards of its kind. The bookmakers ha…