Plymouth's Wolf Alice beat Lily Allen to MercuryPrize (and she's not happy)

Alternative rock band Wolf Alice have won the 2018 MercuryPrize for their album Visions Of A Life.

The four-piece group were visibly stunned to beat fellow contenders including Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

It was the second time the band had been in the running for the prestigious prize after their debut My Love Is Cool was shortlisted in 2015.

The four-piece consists of singer Ellie Roswell, bassist Theo Ellis, Plymouth guitarist Joff Oddie and drummer Joel Amey.

Rowsell collected the prize, saying: "This means so much to pick this up with my three best friends."

But Lily Allen clearly wasn't happy.

Allen tweeted to say she had been "robbed". She tweeted: "Someone call 999 I've been robbed."

She added: "I adore @wolfalice tho, and they are very deserved winners. Next time......... imma win that bitch."

Wol Alice bassist Theo Ellis said: "When we first started as a band I remember the first label meeting we ever had, we walked into a room and the geezer said 'You don't look like a band at all, what are you? What are you supposed to be? All your songs sound different, you don't look like each other'.

"We never really figured it out, but here we are so f*** you.

"He also said he didn't want to work with women who wore make-up because it was a bunch of fuss, and here we are and I actually can't believe it.

"Noel Gallagher is f****** sat there looking at me, what are you supposed to say?

"Big up everyone who is nominated, thank-you so much to everyone who has ever supported us or come to a show, this means the world."

Before returning to the stage to perform with the band again, he asked the crowd: "Has anyone got a Jagerbomb?"

Roswell and Oddie originally formed Wolf Alice as an acoustic duo and got their name from a short story by writer Angela Carter.

They decided to add electronic elements to their sound and recruited Rosewell's childhood friend Sadie Cleary on bass and James DC on drums.

Amey later joined the group in 2012 after their original drummer broke his wrist.

Cleary left the same year to pursue her studies and was replaced by Ellis.

In 2013, they released their first physical single Fluffy - which was later followed up by their debut EP Blush.

They were signed to the Dirty Hit record label in 2014 and their debut album My Love Is Cool was released in June the following year.

The album was also nominated for the Mercury Prize, but lost out to Benjamin Clementine's At Least For Now.

It featured the song Moaning Lisa Smile which was nominated for a Grammy award in the best rock performance category.

It peaked at number two on the UK album's chart was was certified gold after surpassing sales of over 100,000.

Their single Bros was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2016.

They have won a UK festival award for their live performances and have supported rock bands such as Foo Fighters and Queens Of The Stone Age.

The group's sophomore record Visions Of A Life was released in September last year and also reached number two on the UK chart.

It was described by the Mercury judging panel of industry experts as: "An exuberant tapestry of swirling pop, grunge and indie guitar rock."

After beating 11 other records by the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen to claim the prize, Ellis said: "When we first started as a band I remember the first label meeting we had, we walked into the room and the geezer said 'what the f***? You lot don't look like a band at all? What are you supposed to be? All your songs are so different, you don't look like each other'. We never figured it out but here we are."

Joff, isn't the only performer in his family.

Joff's mother, Sheila Snellgrove, is the company director of the Barbican Theatre, which she co-founded with his father, David OBE, who is an actor and playwright.

In 2016 Joff said his highlight was “touring and seeing parts of the world we wouldn't have been able to see had we not been in the position we are”.