NME Awards: 2010 Winners List

Here are the winners from the 2010 NME Awards, which were held in Brixton, London and voted for by music fans. Kasabian won Best Album and Best Album Artwork, while Lady GaGa won Best and Worst Dressed!

The winners for the 2010 Shockwave NME Awards are:

Best British Band: Muse

Best International Band: Paramore

Best Solo ArtistArtist: Jamie T

Best New Band: Bombay Bicycle Club

Best Live Band: Arctic Monkeys

Best Album: “West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum” by Kasabian

Best Track: “Dominos” by The Big Pink

Best Video: “The Captain” by Biffy Clyro

Best Live Event: Blur’s performance at Hyde Park

Best Festival: Glastonbury

Best Dance Floor Filler: “In for the Kill” by La Roux

Best TV Show: “The Inbetweeners”

Best Film: “Inglourious Basterds”

Best DVD: “Future Sailors” by The Mighty Boosh

The Giving it Back Fan Award: Lily Allen for her ticket treasure hunt on Twitter

Hero of the Year: Rage Against the Machine

Villain of the Year: Kanye West

Best Dressed: Lady Gaga

Worst Dressed: Lady Gaga

Worst Album: “Lines Vines Trying Times” by The Jonas Brothers

Worst Band: JLS

The Best Website (not including NME): Muse.mu (who won over Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube)

Best Album Artwrok: “West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum” by Kasabian

Best Band Blog: Radiohead with Radiohead.com/deadairspace

The Godlike Genius: Paul Weller

Outstanding Contribution To Music: The Specials

*NME 2010 Awards: The Nominations

*NME 2009 Awards: The Winners

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The Specials Win NME Outstanding Contribution Award

The Specials have been honoured with an award from NME magazine at this year's NME Awards, the Coventry band will receive the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution To Music Award at the NME Awards ceremony, which takes place at the O2 Academy Brixton on February 24th.

The band will also headline the Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts on March 29 at London's Royal Albert Hall, tickets go on sale later this week. The latest edition of NME magazine features The Specials remarkable career, and tells the full story of 2 Tone, the UK's most revolutionary label - on sale Wednesday February 3rd.

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NME Awards 2010 Nominations

Here are the nominations for the NME Awards, which will take place in London on February 24 at the Brixton O2 Academy. Arctic Monkeys and Kasabian have six nominations each, could this be Kasabian's year? (Find out the winners of the NME Awards 2009: HERE)

Best British Band:
Arctic Monkeys
Biffy Clyro
Kasabian
Muse
Oasis

Best International Band:
Green Day
Kings of Leon
Paramore
Vampire Weekend
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Best Solo Artist:
Dizzee Rascal
Florence And The Machine
Jamie T
Julian Casablancas
Lady GaGa

Best New Band:
The Big Pink
Bombay Bicycle Club
Mumford & Sons
The xx
La Roux

Best Live Band:
Arctic Monkeys
Kasabian
Muse
Radiohead
Them Crooked Vultures

Best Album:
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Muse – The Resistance
The Cribs – Ignore The Ignorant
The Horrors – Primary Colours

Best Track:
Animal Collective – 'My Girls'
Arctic Monkeys – 'Crying Lightning'
Florence And The Machine – 'Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)'
Jamie T – 'Sticks N' Stones'
The Big Pink – 'Dominos'

Best Video:
Arctic Monkeys – 'Cornerstone '
Biffy Clyro – 'The Captain'
Kasabian – 'Fire'
The Maccabees – 'Can You Give It'
Oasis – 'Falling Down'

Best Live Event:
Blur at Hyde Park
Jay-Z at Alexandra Palace
Muse at Teignmouth
Oasis at Heaton Park
The Dead Weather at Shoreditch Church

Best Festival:
Download
Glastonbury
Reading And Leeds Festivals
T In The Park
V Festival

Best Dancefloor Filler:
Dizzee Rascal And Armand Van Helden – 'Bonkers'
Florence And The Machine – 'You've Got The Love'
La Roux – 'In For The Kill' (Skream Remix)
Lady GaGa – 'Poker Face'
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – 'Zero'

Best TV Show:
The Inbetweeners
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Peep Show
Skins
True Blood

Best Film:
(500) Days Of Summer
In The Loop
Inglourious Basterds
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Where The Wild Things Are

Best DVD:
Kings of Leon – Live At The The O2 Arena
Flight Of The Conchords – Complete HBO Second Season
The Killers – Live From The Royal Albert Hall
The Mighty Boosh – Future Sailors
Nirvana – Live At Reading

Giving It Back Fan Award:
Kasabian and Noel Fielding for free 'Vlad The Impaler' video
Danger Mouse for leaking 'Dark Night Of The Soul'
Lily Allen for her Twitter ticket treasure hunt
Arctic Monkeys for their Oxfam golden tickets
Vampire Weekend for giving away 'Horchata' from the album Contra

Hero Of The Year:
Beyoncé
Noel Gallagher
Rage Against The Machine
Matt Bellamy
Alex Turner

Villain Of The Year:
Noel Gallagher
Liam Gallagher
Simon Cowell
Kanye West
Lady GaGa

Best Dressed:
Lady GaGa
Liam Gallagher
Noel Fielding
Florence Welch
Karen O

Worst Dressed:
Lady GaGa
Matt Bellamy
Katy Perry
Liam Gallagher
Elly Jackson, La Roux

Worst Album:
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Lady GaGa – The Fame
The Jonas Brothers – Lines Vines Trying Times
U2 – No Line On The Horizon
Arctic Monkeys – Humbug

Worst Band:
Green Day
Oasis
Jonas Brothers
Paramore
JLS

Best Website:
Muse.mu
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Greenday.com

Best Album Artwork:
Muse – The Resistance
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
The Cribs – Ignore The Ignorant
Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers

Best Band Blog:
Muse (Muse.mu and Twitter.com/muse)
Radiohead (Radiohead.com/deadairspace)
Noel Gallagher (Oasisinet.com)
Los Campesinos! (Loscampesinos.com)
Paramore (Paramore.net)

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Oasis Banned From China?

British rockers Oasis have cancelled their dates in China as it appears the Chinese authorities would have banned them because of claims that Noel Gallagher has links to Tibet. The Chinese would be eager to avoid another high profile artist making a public statement on stage, following Bjork much publicised shouting of "Tibet!" at the end of her concert in Shanghai.

Noel and Liam are not the sort of rock stars who don't toe the political line and have spoken out very honestly over the years, so it is likely the band would have cancelled or boycotted China once restrictions were placed upon them. Two dates were scheduled for Beijing's Capital Arena on April 3 and the Shanghai Grand Stage on April 5 to promote the latest Oasis album 'Dig Out Your Soul'.

Oasis will be here in the UK as part of their world tour with The Enemy supporting and Oasis picked up Best British Band last week at the NME Awards.

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NME Awards 2009: The Winners

The NME Awards took place at the Brixton Academy last night and the winners list is printed below, with Oasis, Pete Doherty (pictured above - PA Photos), Kings of Leon and Muse were all winners at the ceremony.

For the full details, pictures and videos - check out: http://www.nme.com/awards

Best British Band: Oasis

Best International Band: The Killers

Best New Band: MGMT

Best Live Band: Muse

Best Solo Artist: Pete Doherty

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

PICTURE: Beth Ditto Nude Cover

Beth Ditto goes nude for the cover of Love magazine, proving she is not shy when it comes to showing off her body. The 27-year-old singer fronts Gossip and has always been outspoken, giving lively performances. Many fans will remember her Glastonbury performance and love her for being real and down to earth.

Previously Beth Ditto posed naked on the cover of NME magazine back on 2nd June 2007 - winning much praise at the time.

The Specials To Play Glastonbury?

The Specials have been heavily rumoured to be one of the bands who will be performing at this year's Glastonbury Festival, according to NME.COM. As news that the 2009 festival has now sold out, Coventry SKA legends The Specials were one of the four headline acts tipped to perform.

The recently reformed band could be headlining Glastonbury with another iconic band - Blur, who also reformed this year. Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young are the other two big acts expected to be announced nearer to the June festival.


Meanwhile The Specials Neville Staple will be joining SKA 'super group' Special Beat for a tour of Australia in April, just before embarking on The Specials UK tour. He will be joining Pauline Black from Selector and ‘Ranking’ Roger from The Beat for the five date tour.

The Australian Tour Dates:

April 12, Brisbane, The Step Inn

April 13, Byron Bay, East Coast Blues and Roots Festival

April 16, Sydney, The Forum

April 17, Melbourne, Prince Of Wales

April 18, Perth, West Coast Blues and Roots Festival

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The Enemy: NME Awards Launch Brixton Gig

Liam Watts @ NME Awards Launch, Brixton

The Enemy performed in front of 200 excited fans during the NME Awards Launch, held at The Prince in Brixton last night (26/11/08). The Coventry trio took a break from the Welsh recording studio to be at the event hosted by NME magazine.

Tom Clarke, Andy Hopkins and Liam Watts were in high spirits as they belted out ten songs from their debut album "We'll Live And Die In These Towns" and had time for a little back stage humour with Chesney Hawkes "I Am The One And Only". The song appeared on the set list but thankfully The Enemy didn't perform the chart topping cheesy track.

Tom Clarke on stage in Brixton

The Enemy are set for a busy year themselves as they put the final touches to their follow up album and get back to their roots with smaller gig venues around the UK and Ireland. This is then followed up with a stadium tour with the mighty Oasis.

Fans are treated to a special gig

Fans reacted positively to the performance, once again singing along to the anthem tracks and soaking up the exciting atmosphere being created once again by The Enemy. Time and time again Tom, Andy and Liam have managed to ignite a room with their viberant mix of social sounds and upbeat tunes. Sending out a clear message that there will be more to come in 2009.

Andy Hopkins

Following The Enemy's performance the voting for the 2009 NME Awards opened up ahead of the London ceremony at London's Brixton Academy on February 25 next year.

For more on this story check www.nme.com and more exclusive pictures can be found at http://theenemy.eu/NME.aspx

Liam Watts

VIDEO: The Enemy - Had Enough / Aggro @ NME Launch Awards, Brixton

*More videos of The Enemy performing live at NME Awards Launch can be seen: HERE

http://www.theenemy.eu/ - for all the pictures and videos of The Enemy from the gig.

Babyshambles Banned From Moonfest Festival By Police

Babyshambles on stage (pic: Guardian)

Pete Doherty and Babyshambles have been banned from performing at the Moonfest festival, that was set to take place on August 29-31 in Wiltshire by police, according to the NME website.

Doherty's band were due to play at the bash on the opening Friday night (August 29), but a police investigation into Babyshambles' stage manner led them to draw the conclusion that their performance would be likely to incite violence.

Chief Superintendent Julian Kirby, divisional commander of Wiltshire Police, said: "We carried out an analysis of what Pete Doherty and his band does.

"What he does as part of his routine is to gee up the crowd. They speed up and then slow down the music and create a whirlpool effect in the crowd.

"They [the crowd] all get geed up and then they start fighting."

Police presented their findings to North Wiltshire Magistrates on Monday (August 17), who ordered festival organisers to cancel any appearance from Doherty or Babyshambles.

Reacting to the police's decision, Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek said he was angry, but said that the band would try to organise an alternative show. "The whole thing is a farce, it's almost comical,"

"The organiser of the festival is now on the verge of bankruptcy," he continued. "Why? Because we intentionally speed up and slow down the tempo of our songs. We're now in the process of trying to make it happen in a different venue. Watch this space."

More updates and news at: NME.COM

The Specials Are "Rehearsing Together"

The Specials

Neville Staple has revealed that the Specials have been back in the studio together rehearsing and may do a UK tour later this year. This backs up the story last week (as reported HERE), where Terry Hall said the Specials could do a "dignified" return, if they "were good enough".

NME and Music Week reported the story and Neville Staples is quoted as saying:

"A couple of months ago we (all) started talking, We had to talk first to see if we could get on, but we got past the talking stage. Then we said, 'Okay, let’s see what we're like in a room together rehearsing with instruments'."

Following early talks Staple said singer Terry Hall met up with the band and they held two rehearsals.

"We're just seeing how it goes," Staple told Music Week. "If it gels, it gels. If it doesn’t, you don't wanna go out there as some old geriatrics – not me. What we've got to do is make sure the music at least is right.

"So if it works, we'll do it. If not, well. I'm sorry lads and girls. But we're trying."

Neville Staple was back on stage this weekend performing a string of Specials classics in front of an 8,000 crowd at The Enemy gig in their hometown of Coventry. The band may be older but the sound is just as good now as it was back in the hey day of SKA music.


The Specials were last in the charts in 2001 when an expanded, remastered version of their self-titled 1979 debut album reached #22, The Specials album debuted at number 28 this week on sales of 6,271 copies of their CD/DVD combo package "The Best Of The Specials". The Enemy are also inside the Top 30 with their debut album, "We'll Live And Die In These Towns", which has already sold over 300,000 copies since it's release last July. This is possibly one of the only times Coventry have had two bands inside the Top 30 album chart on the same week!

Watch Neville Staples and the band performing at The Enemy gig: HERE




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NME Awards : Best Picture

Lethal Bizzle @NME Awards

Lethal Bizzle may not have won any awards at this years NME Awards, but he does win "Best Picture" for his apt t-shirt saying "Fuck the Brits". It was fitting to have a dig at the Brits at the NME Awards, as the NME Awards is all that the Brits is not.

Meanwhile, The Enemy seemed to make it back safely to Coventry last night - resisting the chance to get blinding drunk at the NME Awards. Instead the lads opted to be sensible and head back into the recording studio today. Below is an interview with The Enemy from last night's NME Awards.

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NME Music Awards 2008

The Enemy win "Best New Band" *Pic: Guy Eppel

Tonight the NME Music Awards took place in London, and here is the list of winners ............ The Wombats and The Enemy as well as Arctic Monkeys and Kate Nash scooped awards.

*picture by Andrew Kendall/NME

Best British Band supported by Shockwaves
Arctic Monkeys

Best International Band supported by T4
The Killers

Best New Band supported by BBC Radio 1
The Enemy

Best Live Band supported by Carling
Muse

Best Solo Artist supported by 4Music
Kate Nash

Best Album supported by HMV
'Myths Of The Near Future' - Klaxons

Best Track supported by Trinity St
'Fluorescent Adolescent' – Arctic Monkeys

The Wombats - Winners of "Best Dancefloor Filler"

Best Video supported by NME TV
'Teddy Picker' – Arctic Monkeys

Best Music DVD
'Unplugged In New York' - Nirvana

Best Live Event
Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festival

Hero Of The Year
Pete Doherty

Villain Of The Year
George W Bush

Best Dressed supported by Topman
Noel Fielding

Worst Dressed
Amy Winehouse

Best Dancefloor Filler supported by Club NME
'Let's Dance To Joy Division' – The Wombats

Best Album Artwork
'The Good, The Bad And The Queen' – The Good, The Bad And The Queen

Best Radio Show
Zane Lowe (Radio 1)

Worst Album
'Blackout' - Britney Spears

Worst Band
The Hoosiers

Best TV Show
'The Mighty Boosh'

Best Film
'Control'

Sexiest Man
Noel Fielding

Sexiest Woman
Kylie Minogue

Best Venue
Wembley Stadium

Best Website
Facebook

Best Band Blog
Radiohead (www.radiohead.com/deadairspace)


Best Music Blog
The Modern Age (www.themodernage.org)

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The Enemy - Secret Gig Video

The Enemy put on a secret gig on Friday for 100 very lucky fans, who boarded a special train to meet Tom Clarke and Liam Watts as they performed a few tracks from their album "We'll Live And Die In These Towns". As reported on www.theenemy.eu/ at the weekend, Andy Hopkins sadly had to miss the secret gig due to being "dead" - according to Tom!

NME were on hand to record some scenes from the event (and rub my nose in it because I didn't win!!) and now you can watch the interviews with Tom Clarke and Liam Watts below.

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