Wednesday, January 26, 2011
10 Things We State About...
The nominees for the NME Awards were announced yesterday. If you missed them, here's a quick summary: Boyz rool! Girls suck! Guitars forever!Anyway, to celebrate this
- Oasis have won every category of award the magazine gives out, including best band, best album, and most fanciable female, the latter coming about during a time in Liam's life where he was "confused".
- The NME Award is a raised middle finger. This is because the NME still believes that swearing on TV is somehow controversial.
- Females are eligible for a number of awards, but aren't allowed to attend the ceremony as they have "cooties" and other forms of girl germs.
- The NME Awards were originally set up as it was felt the Brit Awards didn't properly reflect the music scene. Said a spokesman at the time "The Brits give prizes to a lot of terrible bands, and we feel there's a whole genre of awful music they're completely ignoring. We want to give our rubbish music a chance to wither in the spotlight as well".
- One of the signs of Armageddon and the general end of the world, as foretold in the Book of Revelation in the bible, is Muse not receiving a nomination for Best Live Band.
- The awards are normally hosted by a comedian, although their material tends to fall flat when compared to the jokes who actually receive the prizes.
- The Philip Hall Radar award is given to a band who the writing staff feel are exciting and innovative and destined for big things. They will never ever be heard of again.
- They also award a prize for "Godlike Genius", which is normally given out ironically to acts who have produced little of any actual worth, but who are a bit old and have the night of the ceremony free.
- During the Britpop years, an administration error led to most of the prizes being awarded to Chas & Dave.
- They should really bring back the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party, shouldn't they?
