Monday, 9 March 2009

Shockwaves NME Awards winners

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I'm about two weeks late with this and therefore completely irrelevent, but the Shockwaves NME Awards took place at Brixton Academy on February 25th, with the winners including Muse, MGMT, The Killers, Oasis and Kings Of Leon.
Girls Aloud didn't win anything, in fact they weren't even nominated for anything, but Sarah and Nicola showed up to the event, Nicola looking flawless as ever and Sarah making a disgrace of herself, as ever.
A few of the awards went to the people I'd hoped, though the fact that Oasis managed to win Best British Band only to be booed by those in attendance proved that not all of the winners were necessarily popular, or deserving.

The full list of winners, then:

Best British Band: Oasis (I'd slated Muse to pick this one up).

Best International Band: The Killers (Glad they won this after walking away from the BRIT's empty handed).

Best New Band: MGMT

Best Live Band: Muse (Did anyone else really stand a chance?)

Best Solo Artist: Pete Doherty (As the man himself pointed out afterwards, he hasn't even released any solo material yet!)

Best Album: Kings of Leon Only By The Night

Best Track: MGMT "Time To Pretend"

Best Video: Last Shadow Puppets "My Mistakes Were Made For You"

Best DVD: Arctic Monkeys At the Apollo

Best Album Artwork: Muse HAARP

Best Venue: London Astoria

Best Live Event: Glastonbury

Best Blog: Noel Gallagher

Best TV Show: The Mighty Boosh

Best Dressed: Alexa Chung

Worst Dressed: Amy Winehouse

Godlike Genius: The Cure

Outstanding Contribution to British Music: Elbow

Hero of the Year: Barack Obama

Villain of the Year: George W. Bush

Worst Band & Worst Album: Jonas Brothers

Sexiest Male: Matt Bellamy

Sexiest Female: Hayley Williams

Best Website: YouTube

Philip Hall Radar Award: The Big Pink

Now, I'm not suggesting that readers of the NME might actually like Disney sponsored pop-rockers The Jonas Brothers, but giving them awards for both Worst Band and Worst Album seems a little odd. It'd be like the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards announcing Radiohead as their worst band. The Jonas Brothers are so far removed from the world of the NME, it doesn't make sense to me that they were even nominated. I would have liked to see who NME readers thought to be the worst band in the 'indie' world, instead of picking a group I doubt even enter the consciousness of most NME readers most days.
I think I'll choose to ignore the selection of Muse's Matt Bellamy as Sexiest Male over the beautiful Keith Murray of We Are Scientists.

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