2007

This year's shortlist demonstrates the continuing musical vitality of regions throughout the British Isles. The View, with Hats Off to the Buskers, hail from Dundee while Dublin-based Fionn Regan is shortlisted for The End of History. Maps' James Chapman recorded his album, We Can Create, in his Northamptonshire bedroom and The Young Knives, whose Voices of Animals and Men is shortlisted, now live in Oxford after forming in Ashby de la Zouche. Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys won the Prize in 2006 and are again shortlisted in 2007 - this year for their number one album Favourite Worst Nightmare.