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Awards
MOJO award noms out
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 5 May 2010
I was briefly very confused a moment ago when I thought that Kasabian had been nominated for several MOBO Awards. Turns out these are the nominations for the MOJO Awards, though. This still doesn’t really explain why Kasabian are up for any awards.
Anyway, now in its seventh year, the MOJO Honours List, as it likes to be known, has announced its 2010 nominees, as voted for by readers of the magazine. Kasabian are up in three categories, while Florence and that machine or hers are up for four and The Arctic Monkeys are in line for two. Also announced yesterday was the winner of this year’s MOJO Maverick Award, aka the lifetime achievement gong, which goes to Hawkwind.
Says MOJO Editor-in-chief, Phil Alexander: “As the list of previous winners ably proves, The MOJO Maverick Award is reserved for those that have cut across genres, shattered taboos, and that have made music on their own terms. In their rich, eventful and illustrious career Hawkwind have done all these things and quite a lot more. … In fact Hawkwind are more than just a band, they’re a mindset, a way of life. Four decades on they continue to be one of the most vibrant and uncompromising bands in Britain. Long may they remain ‘out there’!”
The overall winners will be revealed at a ceremony at The Brewery in London on 10 Jun.
Here are the full nominations:
Best Album: Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter, Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me, Florence And The Machine – Lungs, Paul Weller – Wake Up The Nation
Best Live Act: Kasabian, Midlake, Rufus Wainwright, Arctic Monkeys, Florence And The Machine
Breakthrough Act: The Jim Jones Revue, John Grant, Florence And The Machine, The Low Anthem, Mumford And Sons
Compilation Of The Year: A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind
Vol 2: Pagan Love Vibrations Compiled And Mixed By The Amorphous Androgynous, Can You Dig It? The Music And Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-1975, Where The Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965 – 1968, Charlie Gillett’s Radio Picks From Honky Tonk, Island Records Reggae Box Set: War Ina Babylon
Song Of The Year: Richard Hawley – Open Up Your Door, Florence And The Machine – You’ve Got The Love, Kasabian – Fire, Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning, Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name
