Oasis win the Best British Band gong at the NME Awards 2009. Both Best Album and Best Newcomer go to US bands, the Kings Of Leon and MGMT respectively.
Oasis were nominated in seven categories and take home two awards: That for Best British Band and one for Noel’s ‘Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere’ as Best Blog.
The winners of the NME Awards 2009 were announced at the O2 Academy Brixton last night. Winners were voted for by the public and apart from the noticeably strong performance by US artists there were little or no surprises.
Where the NME Awards really excelled this year was in staging a couple of surprise one-off performances during the evening.
Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon stole the show with an acoustic rendition of ‘This Is A Low’ from Blur’s ‘Parklife’ album. It is still an amazing song 15 years after it was first released. The performance was even more poignant as this was the first time in nine years that former Blur guitarist Coxon and Blur frontman Albarn shared a stage. Coxon left Blur in 2002 and pretty much stayed clear of his former bandmates ever since.
Another one-off performance saw Glasvegas covering Elvis’ jealousy drama ‘Suspicious Minds’ with a little help from Florence Welch of Florence & The Machine.
Other highlight of the awards ceremony included Elbow padding out their new single ‘Grounds For Divorce’ with a 20-piece orchestra and Franz Ferdinand covering Blondie’s ‘Call Me’ with guest vocals by singer La Roux.
The 2009 NME Awards Winners
Best British Band
Oasis - Fair enough.
Best International Band
The Killers - The Las Vegas band clinches the award for the second time since 2004.
Best Solo Artist
Pete Doherty - Hmm, if he could only record a decent album…
Best New Band
MGMT - Better than Vampire Weekend? I don’t think so…
Best Live Band
Muse - This is the third time Muse win the Best Live Band gong.
Best Album
Kings Of Leon – ‘Only By The Night’
Best Track
MGMT – ‘Time To Pretend’
Best Video
The Last Shadow Puppets – ‘My Mistakes Were Made For You’
Best Live Event
Glastonbury
Best TV Show
The Mighty Boosh
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 Bush - NME readers’ favourite villain for the 6th year running.
Best Dressed
Alexa Chung
Worst Dressed
Amy Winehouse - You could argue the Amy vs. Alexa issue ’til the cows come home; music bashes and fashion awards are odd bed fellows.
Worst Album
Jonas Brothers – ‘A Little Bit Longer’ - Fellow nominees Coldplay get away unscathed.
Worst Band
Jonas Brothers - No surprise there.
Sexiest Male
Matt Bellamy - The axe wielding Muse frontman gets the vote.
Sexiest Female
Hayley Williams - The blonde frontwoman of Paramore caught the voters’ eyes.
Best Website
YouTube - Everybody does it, so the win is only fair.
Best Venue
London Astoria - too late to check it out now, the Astoria closed last month to make way for a train station - RIP!
Best Album Artwork
Muse – ‘HAARP’
Best Band Blog
Noel Gallagher’s ‘Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere’ - Well, Oasis’s website has been down since the company that hosted it went bust. Until the site has been migrated you can get to Noel’s blog from the band’s MySpace page.
Godlike Genius Award
The Cure - It’s just a band…
