Congratulations to Elbow

Sean will be pleased:) His favourite band have won this years Mercury Music Prize with their album, "The Seldom Seen Kid".

Up against artists like Estelle, Burial and The Last Shadown Puppets who opened the ceremony, Elbow were unexpected winners. We at PopJunkie love the album and have been championing it for months - especially wee Sean!

And, we are not alone Guardian critic Alex Petridis agrees with us:

"It's a really interesting mainstream rock record that absolutely deserves wider audience recognition - the songs are fantastic, the lyrics are beautifully turned, it works a lot of slightly abstruse and disparate influences into its sound and there's something incredibly charming and human and warm about it."

Singer Guy Garvey dedicated the prize to Brian Glancey, a close friend and pivotal figure in the Manchester music scene, who died two years ago.

"The album is dedicated to him, because you don't get more seldom seen than someone who's dead, and I think he'd appreciate the gallows humour in that," he said. "I miss him every day, he was a great man and he should be stood here in many ways. Some of his music will be coming out soon and everyone else will know how great he was as well."

Garvey said the prize would be given to Glancey's mother, Mandy, to put on her mantelpiece.

Watch PopJunkie Epsiode 1 where Sean reviews "The Seldom Seen Kid"