NME Awards show: full round-up
For those of you not following the grand ceremony on TV, here’s a round-up of all the winners from last night’s NME Awards Show.
Arctic Monkeys won biggest, hauling in three awards for best British band, best video and best track, while beans on toast auteur Kate Nash took home the coveted prize for best solo artist.
Myths of the Near Future followed up its good work at the Mercury Prize by bringing home ‘best album’ for Klaxons while Pete Doherty was honoured with the award for ‘hero of the year’.
The unfortunates? The Hoosiers, Britney Spears and George W Bush for worst band, worst album and villain of the year respectively; the latter, we’re sure, taking on board the NME readers’ scorn and determining to buck up his ideas in the future.
Obviously this is a bit like shooting blind, unlucky fish in a barrel, but just a few quick grievances – the first regarding Arctic Monkeys ‘best video’ award. No gripes here, a fine band with a video directed by Roman Coppola (click). But the accompanying NME news story suggests the award was given to a video that “features a gangland war between criminals and clowns in full costume, along with childhood snaps of the band themselves.” That’ll be the more spectacular video for ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’ then, yeah?
Other concerns of DrownedinSound’s come with The Wombats’ win (we’ve obviously be filling the wrong dancefloors), and the categories of best venue and the John Peel award for musical innovation, both of which have taken significant steps up this year – Wembley Stadum dislodging Brixton Academy from its title of the former while Radiohead deservedly joining the ranks of pioneering acts The Others and Enter Shikari.
Anyway…
NME Awards 2008
British Band: Arctic Monkeys
International Band: The Killers
New Band: The Enemy
Live Band: Muse
Solo Artist: Kate Nash
Philip Hall Radar Award (new act): Glasvegas
Worst Band: The Hoosiers
John Peel Award For Musical Innovation: Radiohead
Album: Myths Of the Near Future - Klaxons
Track: ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’ - Arctic Monkeys
Video: ‘Teddy Picker’ - Arctic Monkeys
Best Dancefloor Filler: ‘Let’s Dance To Joy Division’ - The Wombats
Best Album Artwork: The Good, The Bad & The Queen – The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Worst Album: Blackout - Britney Spears
Hero Of The Year: Pete Doherty
Best Dressed: Noel Fielding
Worst Dressed: Amy Winehouse
Villain Of The Year: George W Bush
Sexiest Man: Noel Fielding
Sexiest Woman: Kylie Minogue
Venue: Wembley Stadium
Live Event: Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festival
Website: Facebook
Band Blog: Radiohead
Music Blog: The Modern Age
Radio Show: Zane Lowe (Radio 1)
Best Music DVD: ‘Unplugged In New York’ - Nirvana
Best TV Show: The Mighty Boosh
Best Film: Control
Godlike Genius: Manic Street Preachers
Us? Yeah, we're just bitter we didn't get nominated again this year.
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George Bush has had a particularly bad year.
YOU REPUBLICAN SHIT
*explodes*
Venue: Wembley Stadium
*dies a little*
Remember when the NME adwards were an alternative to the Brits?
Seriously
Facebook.
'Best Dancefloor Filler'
Jesus, clutching at straws a bit there. And what the fuck is the point of having a 'Best TV Show' award at a music awards show? Other than to give the NME an excuse to print more shite about The Mighty Boosh, that is.
Remember when they were just an alternative to everything?
Wembley Stadium indeed. Good lord.
What exactly
has pete doherty done this year to deserve a 'hero of the year' award?
release a mediocre album
er, not die?
nothing
he just is
I also have a "few" gripes
New Band: The Enemy
Oh, my. If by "new band" you mean "set of dim dwarves"
I am beginning to suspect that the N in NME stands for Notionally
Album: Myths Of the Near Future - Klaxons
it is absolutely not an awful record, y'know, but if anyone is saying it is the best album released in the UK last year then
well
they are just being silly.
Any of the other Mercury nominees is more deserving. And, no, I can't quite recall them either, but I AM right.
Best Dancefloor Filler: ‘Let’s Dance To Joy Division’ - The Wombats
"best"?
"filler" is closer.
Best Album Artwork: The Good, The Bad & The Queen – The Good, The Bad & The Queen
"best"?
least memorable, mebbe.
must Damon always get something?
Hero Of The Year: Pete Doherty
dictionary on its way chaps
Best Dressed: Noel Fielding
again, if this dude wasnt famous, and thus didnt have that smug grin, then READERS would, I am quite sure, cross over the road regardless of the heavy traffic to avoid this man
Sexiest Man: Noel Fielding
that'll be the two volume version
Venue: Wembley Stadium
well, it IS a venue
Best Music DVD: ‘Unplugged In New York’ - Nirvana
uh huh. The Beatles "Help" is also quite good.
in fact
it's probably like his reward for staying clean
"right, if you go through rehab and it's all fine i'm sure the nice boys at the nme will give you something to be proud of, here's a doggy biscuit"
^ ^ this ^ ^
spot on.
britney spears got worst album?
fucking idiot twats. her last album was a really fucking great pop album.
they know nothing. but we knew that.
Isn't this voted for by them?
Rather than the writers? So you have idiotic things like wembley winning just because quite a lot of people went there and probably didn't go anywhere else. These awards are just too pointless to get wound up about anyway.
^^^^^^
it makes me sick.
i think any one of us could have been given then awards titles and filled them in and got them spot on.
'Control' for best film? i've not seen it granted, but i'm sure it wasn't the best film of the last year.
^
this is the biggest travesty
^ i know.
in fact, i'm going to stop clicking into this now.
Yeah
I couldn't give two tosses about The Enemy, Klaxons etc. It's what I'd expect. But to slate the Britney album is a huge fucking misjudgement. Amazing album as pop records go.
No, fuck it. Amazing album as records go...
Peter Bradshaw
film critic at the Guardian thought 'Control' was the best film of last year.
If you're criticising this list, there's probably better things to pick up on.
I've tried so hard to ignore this
but 'Best Live Venue - Wembley Stadium'. This defies any kind of sense, it was obviously only Muse fans who were allowed to vote wasn't it.
I would seriously doubt if even half the voters had actually heard it.
but it's like well indie to hate britney coz we are well alternative and stuff innit.
Also - which ones are The Others?
I don't think i know who this band is.
faris rotter went up in my estimations
when he said to the enemy "laughing in the face of natural selection"
Roman Coppola
AAAAAAhhhhhhhhh... come back to me, we want your money! Taxlo$$!
That was a good vid.
also telling that coked up bitch Kimberly Stewart
"oh just shut up"
and then when she announced it earlier than was suppoes to he just looked disappointed. Even more with the smug rat faced dwarves coming up. I really don't think he wanted to be there
Do they still do best website?
And give the award to nme.com?
Every year?
it's probably more because i'm being snobby
and assuming it was only voted for *because* of the subject matter, not because of the film itself.
best dancefloor filler?
how the fuck do you dance to the wombats? it's far too fast and has no groove.
FUCK
THE NME IS PURE GASH ISNT IT.
HAHAHAHA.
PUIRE SHITE.
BURN NME BURN.
X
its a great film
not the best of last year, but still pretty great
You are very very lucky.
Count your blessings.
what a load of wank...
...words cannot describe how fucking shit NME is. garr, it makes me angry. it's just a musical gossip magazines that gives awards to horribley shit bands just because they are popular.
furthermore...
New Band: The Enemy
I cant even think of the words to explain how fucking criminal it was to award such an incredibly shit band this award.
and finally...
Venue: Wembley Stadium
Oh yeah, fucking well done NME. A five year old child could have predicted that one.
I bet they had to do so much fucking research to come to that conclusion. How the hell is it the best venue in the UK? It's just a big fucking stadium that just so happens to host music. What about all the awesome little venues around the country with ACTUAL atmosphere and meaning?
^
absolutely brilliant. i didn't think he had a sense of humour until then
that picture
is hilarious!
Does any one have...
A list of previous winners of the Best New Band award? I'd love to see how wrong the NME usually are.
According to rocklists.net
Here are the winners from 1998 onwards:
1999 = Gomez
2000 = Muse
2001 = Coldplay
2002 = The Strokes
2003 = The Libertines
2004 = Kings Of Leon
2005 = Razorlight
2006 = Arctic Monkeys
2007 = Klaxons
2008 = The Enemy
oh
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZz
nme awards
Yawns
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