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Fri 08 Aug 2007Everybody wants to pop in to the £20 Music PrizeBrian Boydon musicOn the evening of Tuesday, September 4th, many of the UK and Irish music media will reluctantly attend the Mercury Music Prize at some posh London hotel. I say reluctantly because there is a rival music awards ceremony on the same night that they would far rather be at. In fact, if you were to ask the nominated acts for this year's Mercury which prize ceremony they would prefer to be at the answer would most probably "the other music prize on tonight".