Arctic Monkeys earn as many as seven nods in the nominations that were votes by public on-line.
- January 29, 2008
AceShowbiz -
Arctic Monkeys may look forward to win big at this year's Shockwaves NME Awards for they are nominated for seven categories. Meanwhile Amy Winehouse stays powerful despite her personal ordeal, pocketing 4 nominations, two in the music field and others in the non-music category.
The Monkeys are vying for the categories Best British Band, Best Live Band, Best Album, Best Track, Best Video and Best Video Album Artwork, while lead singer Alex Turner is running solo for Best Dressed award. On the other side, Winehouse has been nominated for Villain of the Year alongside U.S. president George W. Bush, British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and Razorlight's frontman Johnny Borrell.
Other big nominees are Klaxons, My Chemical Romance, Pete Doherty and The Cribs. The nominations were also determined by public voting since December last year. Winners will once again be picked through online voting up till February 25 at 10 A.M. with the result announced in a ceremony at London's Indig02 on February 28.
Here are nominees on the music categories, for other non-music ones head to NME.com.
The 2008 Shockwaves NME Awards music nominees are:
Best British Band
- Arctic Monkeys
- Babyshambles
- The Cribs
- Klaxons
- Muse
- The Enemy
- Foals
- Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
- The Pigeon Detectives
- The Wombats
- Arctic Monkeys
- The Cribs
- Kaiser Chiefs
- Muse
- My Chemical Romance
- Kate Nash
- Jamie T
- Jack Penate
- Amy Winehouse
- Patrick Wolf
- 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' - Arctic Monkeys
- 'Shutters Nation' - Babyshambles
- 'We'll Live and Die in These Towns' - The Enemy
- 'Myths of the Near Future' - Klaxons
- 'In Rainbows' - Radiohead
- 'Fluorescent Adolescent' - Arctic Monkeys
- 'Flux' - Bloc Party
- 'Men's Needs' - The Cribs
- 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' - Oasis
- 'Let's Dance To Joy Division' - The Wombats
- 'Teddy Picker' - Arctic Monkeys
- 'Flux' - Bloc Party
- 'D.A.N.C.E.' - Justice
- 'Golden Skans' - Klaxons
- 'Teenagers' - My Chemical Romance
- 'Up The Shambles' - Babyshambles
- 'The Song Remains The Same' - Led Zeppelin
- 'Unplugged In New York' - Nirvana
- 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' - Oasis
- 'I Told You I Was Trouble' - Amy Winehouse
- Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festival
- Glastonbury
- Muse At Wembley Stadium
- T In The Park
- V Festival
- 'Flux' - Bloc Party
- 'Hummer' - Foals
- 'D.A.N.C.E.' - Justice
- 'Atlantis To Interzone' - Klaxons
- 'Let's Dance To Joy Division' - The Wombats
- 'Favourite Worst Nightmare' - Arctic Monkeys
- 'The Good, The Bad and The Queen' - The Good, The Bad and The Queen
- 'Sawdust' - The Killers
- 'Because of the Times' - Kings of Leon
- 'Send Away the Tigers' - Manic Street Preachers
- '1973' - James Blunt
- 'The Trick To Life' - The Hoosiers
- 'Spirit' - Leona Lewis
- 'Life in Cartoon Motion' - Mika
- 'Blackout' - Britney Spears
