Florence And The Machine, The Horrors and Arctic Monkeys were the big winners at the 2012 NME Awards tonight (February 29) at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.
Florence And The Machine won two awards, taking home the prizes for Best Solo Artist and Best Track for ‘Shake It Out’. Accepting the award for Best Solo Artist, Florence Welch said that although she was aware it was “still unknown” whether she was part of a band or a solo artist, she would not be giving the award back.
She also said she was delighted to receive the award for Best Track and thanked her bandmates and her management when accepting the gong. She had earlier performed a stripped down version of ‘Shake It Out’ and then duetted with The Horrors on a new rendition of their single ‘Still Life’.
The Horrors themselves were awarded Best Album, with bassist Rhys Webb thanking their management as they accepted the award for their third album ‘Skying’.
Kasabian won Best British Band and dedicated their award to Davy Jones, singer with The Monkees, who passed away earlier this evening. Frontman Tom Meighan sang a large chunk of the band’s classic single ‘Hey! Hey! We’re The Monkees’ in tribute to Jones.
The Vaccines won Best New Band, with frontman Justin Young telling the crowd that he was glad the fact that “entertainment was just as important as progression in rock ‘n’ roll had been recognised”.
Hurts picked up Best Video for ‘Sunday’ and dedicated the award to the people of Romania, Carl Barat and Noel Gallagher, while Katy B won Best Dancefloor Anthem for her single ‘Broken Record’, revealing that this was the first award she had ever won.
Glastonbury was awarded Best Festival, with Michael Eavis promising that the event would return with a strong line-up in 2013, shouting: “Can we do it in 2013? Of course we can.”
Arctic Monkeys won Best Live Band and accepted the award by video, while Azealia Banks, who won the Philip Hall Radar Award, was unable to attend due to illness.
Pulp were awarded with the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution To Music and also performed their hits ‘Babies’ and ‘Mis-Shapes’. Jarvis Cocker dedicated the award to “anyone who came to see us last summer” and also thanked their record label, management and all those who “were still interested”.
Johnny Marr accepted the award for Best Reissue on behalf of The Smiths, telling the crowd that he was “really happy people still liked listening to the songs as he really enjoyed making them”. He also dedicated the awards to his former bandmates Morrissey, Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke.
Finally, Noel Gallagher picked up the award for Godlike Genius, accepting the gong after seeing a video in which The Kinks’ Ray Davies, The Who’s Roger Daltrey, Paul Weller, Kasabian’s Serge Pizzorno, Brandon Flowers, Guy Garvey, Russell Brand and Bobby Gillespie all spoke of their admiration for him.
Picking up the award from Johnny Marr, Gallagher told the applauding crowd: “To all the bands who have been influenced by me. You are welcome.” Gallagher then played a seven-song set, which ended with ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’.
Other awards winners, who did not receive their awards on the night, include Muse, Lady Gaga, Paramore’s Hayley Williams and 30 Seconds To Mars’ Jared Leto. The Vaccines, The Maccabees and Kasabian also performed at the ceremony.
To watch the 2012 NME Awards in full, tune in to Channel 4 on Saturday night (March 3) at 11.55pm (GMT). Half an hour of highlights will be shown on T4 at 9.25am (GMT) the same day.
To read all about the awards and all the shenanigans from the night, pick up next week’s issue of NME, which is on UK newsstands next Wednesday (March 7) or available digitally.
NME Awards – as it happened
NME Awards in photos
The winners of the 2012 NME Awards are as follows:
Best British Band (supported by Sonos)
Winner: Kasabian
Bombay Bicycle Club
The Horrors
Arctic Monkeys
Muse
Best International Band (supported by T4)
Winner: Foo Fighters
Arcade Fire
Justice
Odd Future
The Strokes
Best Solo Artist (supported by Rekorderlig)
Winner: Florence + The Machine
Adele
Frank Turner
Laura Marling
Miles Kane
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Best New Band (supported by Boxfresh)
Winner: The Vaccines
Foster The People
Lana Del Rey
Tribes
Wu Lyf
Best Live Band (supported by Carling)
Winner: Arctic Monkeys
Kasabian
Muse
Pulp
Two Door Cinema Club
Best Album (supported by HMV)
Winner: The Horrors – ‘Skying’
Arctic Monkeys – ‘Suck It And See’
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – ‘Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’
PJ Harvey – ‘Let England Shake’
The Vaccines – ‘What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?’
Best Track (supported by Fender)
Winner: Florence + The Machine – ‘Shake It Out’
Arctic Monkeys – ‘The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala’
Bombay Bicycle Club – ‘Shuffle’
Hurts – ‘Sunday’
Lana Del Rey – ‘Video Games’
Dancefloor Anthem (supported by NME Radio)
Winner: Katy B – ‘Broken Record’
Azealia Banks – ‘212’
Foster The People – ‘Pumped Up Kicks’
Justice – ‘Civilization’
Metronomy – ‘The Bay’
Best Video (supported by NMEVideo.com)
Winner: Hurts – ‘Sunday’
Arctic Monkeys – ‘Suck It And See’
Beyonce – ‘Countdown’
Lana Del Rey – ‘Video Games’
Tyler, The Creator – ‘Yonkers’
Best TV Show
Winner: ‘Fresh Meat’
‘Dr Who’
‘Misfits’
‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’
‘This Is England ’88’
(Last year’s winner: Skins)
Best Festival
Winner: Glastonbury
Bestival
Download
Reading & Leeds
T In The Park
V Festival
Best Film
Winner: ‘Submarine’
‘Black Swan’
‘Drive’
‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2’
‘The Inbetweeners Movie’
Best Music Film
Winner: ‘Back And Forth’ – Foo Fighters
‘Living In The Material World’ – George Harrison
‘Talihina Sky’ – Kings Of Leon
‘There Are No Innocent Bystanders’ – The Libertines
‘Upside Down – The Creation Records Story’
Greatest Music Moment Of The Year
Winner: The Stone Roses reunite
Brian May joins My Chemical Romance onstage at Reading Festival
Kasabian see in 2012 with their epic London O2 Arena show
Noel Gallagher launches his solo career with press conference
Pulp steal the show at Glastonbury with secret set
Best Re-issue
Winner: The Smiths – ‘Complete Re-issues’
Manic Street Preachers – ‘National Treasures’
Nirvana – ‘Nevermind’
Primal Scream – ‘Screamadelica’
The Rolling Stones – ‘Some Girls’
Best Book
Winner: Noel Fielding – ‘The Scribblings Of A Madcap Shambleton’
Jared Leto – ‘Notes From The Outernet’
Jarvis Cocker – ‘Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics’
Malcolm X – ‘A Life Of Reinvention’
Shaun Ryder – ‘Twisting My Melon’
Hero Of The Year
Winner: Matt Bellamy
Alex Turner
Dave Grohl
Noel Fielding
Noel Gallagher
Villain Of The Year
Winner: Justin Bieber
David Cameron
Lady Gaga
Liam Gallagher
Nick Clegg
Worst Album
Winner: Justin Bieber – ‘Under The Mistletoe’
Coldplay – ‘Mylo Xyloto’
Lady Gaga – ‘Born This Way’
One Direction – ‘Up All Night’
Viva Brother – ‘Famous First Words’
Worst Band
Winner: One Direction
Beady Eye
Coldplay
Muse
Viva Brother
Best Album Artwork
Winner: Friendly Fires – ‘Pala’
Arctic Monkeys – ‘Suck It And See’
Bombay Bicycle Club – ‘A Different Kind Of Fix’
Bjork – ‘Biophilia’
Jay-Z and Kanye West – ‘Watch The Throne’
Best Band Blog Or Twitter
Winner: @LadyGaga
@Example
Frank-Turner.com/blog
@KanyeWest
@Theohurts
Best Small Festival
Winner: RockNess
Field Day
Hop Farm
Kendal Calling
Latitude
Most Dedicated Fans
Winner: Muse
30 Seconds To Mars
Arctic Monkeys
Hurts
My Chemical Romance
Hottest Male
Winner: Jared Leto, 30 Seconds To Mars
Andy Biersack, Black Veil Brides
Dominic Howard, Muse
Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance
Matt Bellamy, Muse
Hottest Female
Winner: Hayley Williams, Paramore
Amy Lee, Evanescence
Florence Welch, Florence + The Machine
Katy Perry
Marina Diamandis, Marina And The Diamonds
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