If the full list of winners included at the bottom of today's
Daily is anything to go by then NME readers do generally have a good taste in music - except when it comes to voting for worst band and worst album, on which issue they know nothing.
Anyway, good night for Franz Ferdinand at yesterday's NME Awards who, following their disappointments at last weekend's Grammys, demonstrated their appeal to the British Indie faithful by taking two of the key awards. NME readers voted the band's eponymous debut
Best Album of the year, while their single 'Take Me Out' took the award for Best Track.
**The
Libertines were named Best Band, although Mr. Pete Doherty** was not in attendance so there was no awkward 'should he go up with the rest of the band to collect the award' moment. The official reason for Pete's non-attendance was that he was ill - though, as previously reported, the Mirror said earlier this week that bosses of the rehab clinic where the former Libertine is currently being treated had threatened to throw the singer out if his did attend the awards event. No word yet on whether Doherty's illness will affect those two Babyshambles gigs due to take place next week.
But anyway, back to the NME Awards, and other winners included **Green
Day who got Best Video for 'American Idiot', Muse** who won Best
Live Band and former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon who was named
Best Solo Artist. The Killers were named Best International
Band and Razorlight Best New Band. The late great John Peel won a special award for his lifetime services to music, while
The Others won the new John Peel Award For Musical Innovation.
Full list of winners at the bottom.