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Oasis, Alex Turner, MGMT, and Muse were the big winners at tonight’s NME Shockwaves Awards in London, which also doled out awards to the Killers (Best International Band), the Jonas Brothers (Worst Band and Worst Album), and YouTube (Best Web site) in between performances by half of Blur, Franz Ferdinand, and the Cure. Also honored and dishonored: newly minted U.S. President Barack Obama, who won Hero Of The Year honors, and recently departed Commander-In-Chief George W. Bush, who was named 2008’s villain. Full list of winners after the ump.
Best British Band: Oasis
Best International Band: The Killers
Best Solo Artist: Pete Doherty
Best New Band: MGMT
Best Live Band: Muse
Best Album: Kings Of Leon, Only By The Night
Best Track: MGMT, “Time To Pretend”
Best Video: Last Shadow Puppets, “My Mistakes Were Made For You”
Best Live Event: Glastonbury
Best TV Show: The Mighty Boosh
Best Film:
Best Dancefloor Filler: Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris, “Dance Wiv Me”
Best DVD: Arctic Monkeys, At The Apollo
Hero Of The Year: Barack Obama
Villain Of The Year: George W. Bush
Best Dressed: Alexa Chung
Worst Dressed: Amy Winehouse
Worst Album: Jonas Brothers, A Little Bit Longer
Worst Band: Jonas Brothers
Sexiest Male: Matt Bellamy
Sexiest Female: Hayley Williams
Best Website: YouTube
Best Venue: London Astoria
Best Album Artwork: Muse, HAARP
Best Band Blog: Noel Gallagher
Godlike Genius: The Cure
Phillip Hall Radar Award: The Big Pink
Outstanding Contribution To British Music: Elbow
I don’t have a problem with most of these selections, well except Alexa Chung, girl rubs me the wrong way.
They couldn’t find a film they liked?
@MhS: apparently not! there were nominees and everything, too:
Best Film
The Dark Knight
Juno
Quantum Of Solace
Twilight
Wall-E
Well…they know their audience? And bothering to have a worst category at all says a lot about that audience. Poor Jonases.
Anyway, speaking of Pentecostal ministers’ sons-in-a-band, I finally just got that Kings of Leon album…and I am really not sure about that distinction, above.