Awards

MOJO dish out their Honours

By | Published on Friday 11 June 2010

So, MOJO magazine dished out its Honours List awards last night, and here’s the list of winners, providing in the form of words, spaces and colons.

Breakthrough Act: The Low Anthem
Vision Award: Oil City Confidential
Best Live: Midlake
Compilation Of The Year: Amorphous Androgynous
Catalogue Release Of The Year: The Beatles
Song of the Year: Kasabian – Fire
Best Album: Richard Hawley – Truelove’s Gutter

Classic Album Award: Stone Roses
MOJO Medal: Daniel Miller, Mute Records founder
Maverick Award: Hawkwind
Merit Award: Devo
Roots Award: Kate and Anna McGarrigle
Hero Award: Marc Almond
Classic Songwriter Award: Roy Wood
Les Paul Award: Richard Thompson
Inspiration Award: Teardrop Explodes
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jean-Michel Jarre
Icon Award: Duane Eddy
Hall Of Fame: Jimmy Page
Outstanding Contribution To Music: Sigur Ros

You’ve probably noticed there’s a bit of an eighties theme going on with this year’s retrospective winners. Well, actually, I didn’t especially, but whoever wrote the awards press release did, and then demanded MOJO editor Phil Alexander explain himself.

He says: “The 80s are almost the new 60s. You can hear the influence of that decade everywhere. The aspects of the 80s we chose to celebrate at the MOJO Honours List reflect the genuine innovation of that period and I think you sense that the best music made at that time has had a massive impact on the musicians of today, in the same way that the 60s and 70s did previously. Somehow, there is a freedom in parts of 80s music that resonates among a new generation of musicians and fans, and it underlines the age old MOJO belief that music is a continuum and never stops evolving”.



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