My Chemical Romance, Foals, Arcade Fire win big at NME Awards

February 24th, 2011

The somewhat influential British music magazine NME held its annual Shockwaves NME Awards ceremony last night, where My Chemical Romance walked away with two of the biggest honours.

The New Jersey rockers beat stiff competition from Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, The Drums and Vampire Weekend to take hom Best International Band, while their single “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” received the gong for Best Video.

Best Album went to Arcade Fire, whose Suburbs, recently took home a Grammy and BRIT Award for the same honour.

British acts Muse and Foals, respectively, won Best British Band and Best Track for “Spanish Sahara,” and suave newcomers Hurts were recognized as Best New Band.

Esteemed honours went to Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, who received the Godlike Genius Award, which has previously been given to the likes of New Order, U2, The Clash and Primal Scream. PJ Harvey was also honoured with the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution to Music Award.

Canadian electro punks Crystal Castles were also awarded the highly coveted John Peel Award for Innovation.

Losers on the night included Justin Bieber who was awarded Least Stylish and Worst Album, and The Jonas Brothers who were named Worst Band.

The full list of winners:

Godlike Genius Award:
Winner: Dave Grohl

Philip Hall Radar Award:
Winner: The Naked and Famous

Best British Band:
Winner: Muse
Arctic Monkeys
Biffy Clyro
Foals
Kasabian

Best Album:
Winner: Arcade Fire – ‘The Suburbs’
Crystal Castles – ‘Crystal Castles II’
Foals – ‘Total Life Forever’
My Chemical Romance – ‘Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’
Two Door Cinema Club – ‘Tourist History’

Best Dancefloor Filler:
Winner: Professor Green – ‘Jungle’
Crystal Castles – ‘Baptism’
Kele – ‘Tenderoni’
Plan B – ‘Stayed Too Long’
Tinie Tempah – ‘Pass Out’

Best Festival:
Winner: Glastonbury
Download
Reading And Leeds Festivals
T In The Park
V Festival

Best International Band:
Winner: My Chemical Romance
Arcade Fire
Kings Of Leon
The Drums
Vampire Weekend

Best Track:
Winner: Foals – ‘Spanish Sahara’
Cee Lo Green – ‘**** You’
Gorillaz – ‘Stylo’
Janelle Monae (featuring Big Boi) – ‘Tightrope’
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl – ‘Bang Bang Bang’

Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution to Music Award:
Winner: PJ Harvey

Best New Band:
Winner: Hurts
Beady Eye
Everything Everything
The Drums
Two Door Cinema Club

Best TV Show:
Winner: Skins
Misfits
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Peep Show
The Inbetweeners

Best Solo Artist:
Winner: Laura Marling
Florence Welch
Frank Turner
Kanye West
Paul Weller

John Peel Award for Innovation:
Winner: Crystal Castles

Best Video:
Winner: My Chemical Romance – ‘Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)’
Arcade Fire – ‘We Used To Wait’
Brandon Flowers – ‘Crossfire’
Chase & Status – ‘Let You Go’
Gorillaz – ‘Stylo’

Best Live Band:
Winner: Biffy Clyro
Arcade Fire
Foals
Kasabian

Best Film:
Winner: Inception
Get Him To The Greek
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
The Social Network

Hero Of The Year:
Winner: Lady GaGa
Gerard Way
Julian Assange
Kanye West

Villain Of The Year:
Winner: David Cameron
Axl Rose
Justin Bieber
Nick Clegg
Simon Cowell

Most Stylish:
Winner: Brandon Flowers
Hayley Williams
Lady Gaga
Liam Gallagher
Noel Fielding

Least Stylish:
Winner: Justin Bieber
Cheryl Cole
Ke$ha
Lady Gaga
Liam Gallagher

Worst Album:
Winner: Justin Bieber – ‘My World’
Cheryl Cole – ‘Messy Little Raindrops’
Katy Perry – ‘Teenage Dream’
Kings Of Leon – ‘Come Around Sundown’
My Chemical Romance – ‘Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’

Worst Band:
Winner: Jonas Brothers
30 Seconds To Mars
JLS
Kings Of Leon
Tokio Hotel

Best Band Blog or Twitter:
Winner: Hayley Williams
Frank Turner
Kanye West
Lily Allen
Theo Hutchcraft

Best Book:
Winner: John Lydon – ‘Mr Rotten’s Scrapbook’
Carl Barât – ‘Threepenny Memoir’
Jay-Z – ‘Decoded’
Keith Richards – ‘Life’
Russell Brand – ‘My Booky Wook 2′

Best Small Festival (50,000 capacity or lower):
Winner: RockNess
Bestival
Kendal Calling
Latitude
Underage Festival

Best Album Artwork:
Winner: Klaxons – ‘Surfing The Void’
Foals – ‘Total Life Forever’
Gorillaz – ‘Plastic Beach’
MGMT – ‘Congratulations’
My Chemical Romance – ‘Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys’

Hottest Woman:
Winner: Alison Mosshart
Emily Haines
Hayley Williams
Lady Gaga
Shakira

Hottest Man:
Winner: Matt Bellamy
Alex Turner
Billie Joe Armstrong
Dominic Howard
Jared Leto

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