Sod the Brits, here are the NME awards.

[Corin Denton]

Forget all about that manufactured-pap toy awards the Brits consist of (I ask you - best single last 25 years - Gobbie Williams and Lifetime Achievement award - Blob Geldof, funny how that coincides with the the record company's release of the greatest hits compilation!)
Have a word!



Here are the results from the NME awards and what a good reflection of real music they are..

Best British Band – The Libertines
Godlike Genius Award – New Order
Best Album – Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Franz Ferdinand’
Best Event – Paul McCartney/Glastonbury 2004
Best Live Band – Muse
Best New Band – Razorlight
Best Solo Artist – Graham Coxon
Best Track – Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Take Me Out’
Best International Band – The Killers
The Phillip Hall Radar Award – Kaiser Chiefs
Best Video – Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’
Best Music DVD – Oasis’ ‘Definitely Maybe’
Best Film – ‘Shaun Of The Dead’
Best TV Show – ‘Little Britain’
Best Radio Show – Zane Lowe

Along with the prizes handed out tonight, your votes have also been totted-up for all the awards on offer and NME.COM can now reveal the following winners:

Best Dressed – Brandon Flowers, The Killers
Worst Dressed– Britney Spears
Best Live Venue – London Carling Brixton Academy
Best Website – NME.COM
Hero Of The Year – John Peel
Villain Of The Year – George W Bush
Sexiest Man – Brandon Flowers, The Killers
Sexiest Woman – Gwen Stefani
Worst Album – Busted’s ‘A Present For Everyone’
Worst Band – Busted

[Corin Denton]

I thank you all

[Mannginger]

Best Website – NME.COM

hmmm - funny that!

Phil

[Corin Denton]

Mannginger said:

Best Website – NME.COM hmmm - funny that! Phil

Yep, bit much that one!

[DanBoy]

God, I hate NME.

It's a dreadful publication and the journalism is utterly repulsive.

As are 75% of the bands contained within...



>> Edited by DanBoy on Friday 18th February 19:51

[Corin Denton]

DanBoy said:

God, I hate NME. It's a dreadful publication and the journalism is utterly repulsive. >> Edited by DanBoy on Friday 18th February 19:50

Smash Hits fan?

[DanBoy]

Corin Denton said:

DanBoy said: God, I hate NME. It's a dreadful publication and the journalism is utterly repulsive. >> Edited by DanBoy on Friday 18th February 19:50 Smash Hits fan?

In about 1997 I used to buy Mixmag...

Funnily, enough, I stopped buying that in about '99 when it started to resemble Smash Hits a bit too much for my liking.

So, errr, nope.

>> Edited by DanBoy on Friday 18th February 19:52

[Corin Denton]

So what's your choice of the musical press nowadays?

[Ferg]

DanBoy said:

God, I hate NME. It's a dreadful publication and the journalism is utterly repulsive.

Too true, but they are one of few magazines pushing new music towards a bigger audience.




BTW My little brother writes for 'Bucketful of Brains' and sometimes 'Rock'n'reel'.

Oh and a memorable 'Don Williams Live' review for 'Country Music International' which he tells me he made up because he was so drunk.

>> Edited by Ferg on Friday 18th February 20:02

[DanBoy]

Corin Denton said:

So what's your choice of the musical press nowadays?

I read music week now...

Sometimes I pick a copy of Q up from the staffroom table when I'm on lunch too, but I really do think NME is dreadful. It's about the best example of a magazine with a proverbial head up its arse that I can think of.

The only magazine I buy is Evo.

>> Edited by DanBoy on Friday 18th February 20:10

[YarisSi]

What does NME sound like?
Now go watch Almost Famous and stop thinking its any better than any other commercial rubbish.

[Marshy]

Corin Denton said:

Best Solo Artist – Graham Coxon

Ahahaha ha ha ha ha hahahahaha ahahaha!

Sorry. Saw him on Jools Holland. Never heard such a load of talentless crap in my life. Can't sing, can't play, can't write. Next. Famous only for having been in Blur.

F**king music industry. Sucking up to their own.

[Trackside]

On C4 now if anyone's interested...

[Corin Denton]

You can't knock genuine awards such as New Order, Killers and John Peel etc a much better representation of people who really have and are making a difference to modern music.

[Corin Denton]

DJ Friday nights mate.

[RickApple]

DanBoy said:

God, I hate NME. It's a dreadful publication and the journalism is utterly repulsive. As are 75% of the bands contained within... >> Edited by DanBoy on Friday 18th February 19:51

The website is far better, allows you to read news without having spaff-rock crammed down your throat. The editor of the rag is a total cock, just pushes hot new bands to a pinnacle then knocks them down when they fail to be 'the next u2'. It would be ok if they backed people from the start, but they only started supporting bands like bloc party, the killers and franz after they achieved mainstream success...


Do any of you know www.drownedinsound.com ? that is a decent magazine, albeit a net one....same goes for wwww.artrocker.com


And as for the awards, the killers shouldnt have got all, seeing as Brandon 'I'm Coming Out' Flowers cant sing a note live.

[mybrainhurts]

When I track down the person who invented awards programmes, I'm going to nail him/her in a box and drop it in the South Atlantic.

A more tedious, boring, nauseating exercise in self adulation is hard to imagine......

So there......