Mercury Music Prize winners Franz Ferdinand have four nominations for this year's Q Awards - best new act, best album, best single and best video. They were among the nominees announced yesterday - Q readers will now to get to vote for their favourites prior to the main ceremony on 4 Oct.
FF's 'Take Me Out' faces competition for the best single award from Morrissey's 'Irish Blood, English Heart', The Streets' 'Dry Your Eyes', Jamelia's 'See It In A Boys Eyes', Goldie Lookin' Chain's 'Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do', and This Love' from Maroon 5.
Best album nominees include The Libertines and the Scissor Sisters, as well as Keane's 'Hopes and Fears', Dizzee Rascal's 'Showtime' and The Streets' 'A Grand Don't Come For Free'.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Radiohead, U2, Coldplay and OutKast are up for Best Act in the World Today. If Radiohead win it they will have been awarded the title five times (Q readers really do need to get out more) - of course when they won the award last year they refused to turn up to the ceremony after the magazine called them "miserable". Instead, the band sent a soundless video message with some text declaring: "Radiohead aren't talking to Q".