Talking of awards, the NME say they have such a good line up for their upcoming awards show that the event will "go down in rock 'n' roll history", which I'm thinking is a slightly hyperbolic promise, though it may well be one of the final big events at London's Hammersmith Palais before the bulldozers flatten it, so in that respect it might have a place in rock 'n' roll history. NME chief Conor McNicholas goes as far as to say that he "cannot imagine a better line-up" which, to be fair, suggests he doesn't have a great imagination. You'd have to stage something really rather special for me to not be able to "imagine" a better line up.
But all this petty nit-picking isn't to say that the NME haven't put together a rather fine line up for their annual awards party, because they have. And it's especially good news for fans of bands beginning with K - yep, The Killers, Kasabian and Kaiser Chiefs are all on the bill. Add to that those buzzy buzzy Dundonians The View and the legends that are Primal Scream (the winners of this year's NME Godlike Geniuses award) and it should be quite a night.
Here's what Conor says in full: "I cannot imagine a better line-up than this - what a great way to say goodbye to the Palais and remember one of the best years in new and live music ever. The ShockWaves NME Awards 2007 will be an event talked about for years to come!"
All of this takes place on 3 Mar. I'm pretty sure you can still vote at http://www.nme.com/awards.
By the way, for those of you not cool enough / too cool (delete as applicable) to be going to the NME Awards, we'll be having one of our regular CMU nights out that night (I say regular, actually it's the first one ever, but I see it being a regular thing). We'll be all going to see one of our very favourite bands, and we have a not inconsiderable guest list to get all our friends in. More on that later this week.