Local man in Mercury-nominated band

Wednesday 20th July 2011, 2:29PM BST.

‘Photoshop Handsome’ by Everything Everything, from the album Man Alive.

Everything Everything with Guernsey-born guitarist Alex Robertshaw, second right. The other band members are, left to right, Michael Spearman, Jeremy Pritchard and Jonathan Higgs. (Photographer Petrus Olsson/Adamsky)

BAND Everything Everything have been nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize.

The band’s guitarist Alex Robertshaw was born in Guernsey.

The 25-year-old is now based in London but his family still live in the island and he returns when he can.

Everything Everything’s album, Man Alive, has been nominated alongside Adele’s 21, Tinie Tempah’s Disc-Overy and Elbow’s Build A Rocket Boys.

William Hill has given them odds to win of 8/1.

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