Current Mercury Prize odds put David Bowie in pole position

With the Mercury Prize 2016 taking place tonight, last minute betting odds put David Bowie on course for a posthumous win with ‘Blackstar’.

Latest odds from William Hill have Bowie at 1/2 to win the award, with his closest rival Kano at 8/1. Skepta and Anohni are both level at 10/1. At the ceremony, taking place this evening (15th September), actor Michael C Hall is set to honour the departed Bowie with a performance of his track ‘Lazarus’, from nominated album ‘Blackstar’.

Radiohead, meanwhile, have slipped to 14/1 to win with ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ - a loss would make it the fifth time the Oxford band have been nominated for the prize and failed to win. Ouch.

Full odds as of 10:30am can be found below - DIY will be ‘on the carpet’ at the ceremony tonight.

David Bowie - ‘Blackstar’ - 1/2
Kano - ‘Made In The Manor’ - 8/1
Skepta - ‘Konnichiwa’ - 10/1
Anohni - ‘Hopelessness’ - 10/1
Michael Kiwanuka - ‘Love & Hate’ - 12/1
Radiohead - ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ - 14/1
Bat For Lashes - ‘The Bride’ - 25/1
Laura Mvula - ‘The Dreaming Room’ - 33/1
The 1975 - ‘I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It’ - 33/1
Savages - ‘Adore Life’ - 33/1
Jamie Woon - ‘Making Time’ - 40/1
The Comet Is Coming - ‘Channel Spirits’ - 50/1