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Artist News Awards
Muse, Oasis are NME Award winners
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 26 February 2009
Muse won on points at last night’s NME Awards in London, picking up three awards, but Oasis beat them to the title of Best British Band. The Gallaghers were nominated in seven categories, but only took the one gong, though Noel Gallagher got an award for his band blog. Muse won Best Live Band, Best Album Artwork, and, er, Sexiest Man for the group’s Matt Bellamy.
Other winners on the night included The Killers, who were voted Best International band, Kings Of Leon, who took Best Album for ‘Only By The Night’, MGMT, who got Best New Band and Best Track for ‘Time To Pretend’, and Elbow, presented with the honour for Outstanding Contribution To Music.
Dizzee Rascal and Calvin Harris, the latter the recent winner of the CMU sponsored Best Remixer award at the MPG Awards, won Best Dancefloor Filler for ‘Dance Wiv Me’, despite Harris not being invited to the NME’s award show.
On hearing of his win he Twittered: “What kind of award ceremony has you win an award yet still doesnt invite you? NME admit it you fucking love me. Would you have loved ‘Dance Wiv Me’ with no music? When’s the last time an accapella got to no 1? Fucking ‘Caravan Of Love'”.
I’m assuming there’s some history here because earlier in the day Harris Twittered: “I am not going to the fucking NME awards. They didn’t invite me because I am the worst producer on the planet and also a cunt, their words. I am a cunt but Swizz Beats is the worst producer on the planet”.
Back to the NME winners list, and in the silly section, The Jonas Brothers were pronounced Worst Band, as well as being responsible for the Worst Album, whilst hero and villain of the year were Barack Obama and George W Bush respectively.
Best Venue went to the now closed though not quite yet demolished Astoria. As previously reported, The Cure were appointed this year’s Godlike Genius, and they closed the show – which featured appearances from Elbow, Glasvegas and Franz Ferdinand – with a half hour set. The ceremony is to be broadcast on C4 on Friday.
Your full list of winners goes like this:
Best British Band: Oasis
Best New Band: MGMT
Best Live Band: Muse
Worst Band: Jonas Brothers
Best Track: MGMT – Time To Pretend
Best Dancefloor Filler: Dizzee Rascal feat Calvin Harris – Dance Wiv Me
Best Album: Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
Best DVD: Arctic Monkeys – At The Apollo
Best Album Artwork: Muse HAARP
Worst Album: Jonas Brothers A Little Bit Longer
Best Solo Artist: Pete Doherty
Best International Band: The Killers
Best Video: Last Shadow Puppets – My Mistakes Were Made For You
Best Live Event: Glastonbury Festival
Best Venue: London Astoria
Best TV Show: The Mighty Boosh
Best Website: YouTube
Best Blog: Noel Gallagher
Sexiest Male: Matt Bellamy from Muse
Sexiest Female: Hayley Williams from Paramore
Worst Dressed: Amy Winehouse
Best Dressed: Alexa Chung
Hero Of The Year: Barack Obama
Villian Of The Year: George W Bush
Phillip Hall Radar Award: The Big Pink
Outstanding Contribution: Elbow
Godlike Geniuses: The Cure
