NME Awards 2012 the nominations

NME AWARDS 2012

NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

ARCTIC MONKEYS LEAD THE WAY WITH SEVEN NOMINATIONS

PERFORMANCES CONFIRMED:

KASABIAN, THE VACCINES,

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE TO COLLABORATE WITH THE HORRORS

JACK WHITEHALL TO HOST AWARDS

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NME is excited to reveal the nominations for its prestigious NME Awards 2012 which take place at London’s O₂ Academy Brixton on Wednesday 29 February. They can also reveal that Kasabian, and The Vaccines are amongst the performers on the night and that Florence Welch and The Horrors are gearing up for a very special collaboration. British comedy’s hottest new star, Jack Whitehall, is confirmed to host the awards, tickets for the iconic ceremony go on sale at 9am on Friday 3 February and are available at www.nme.com .

An incredible eight million votes have been cast this year for the 26 award categories, proving that the NME Awards 2012 is a ceremony that music fans nationwide are truly passionate about. Leading the nominations this year are Arctic Monkeys who are up for an unprecedented seven awards including Best British Band, Best Album and Best Track (for ‘The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala’). 

Matt Helders, Arctic Monkeys: "We're up for all the big ones - we're very happy. We had a lot of fun making 'Suck It And See' and it's great to be up for Best Live Band. That's all we do - record or play live - so it's good to be recognised!"

Kasabian and The Horrors are set to fight Arctic Monkeys for the night’s biggest awards, with Kasabian up for three awards including Best British Band and Best Live Act and The Horrors up for Best British Band and Best Album. Despite not having an album out since 2009, Muse are nominated for Best British Band and Best Live Band whilst The Vaccines crown their incredible year with nominations for Best New Band and Best Album. Elsewhere, Florence + The Machine is up for Best Solo Artist, Best Track (for ‘Shake It Out’) and Florence herself is up for hottest female.

Florence Welch: "I'd be so excited to win an NME Award - I've never won one! I've only been once to the NME Awards ceremony and it's the drunkest I've ever been at an awards ceremony. I'm very surprised you're having me back. Glasvegas gave me some Buckfast and that was that."

Justin Young, The Vaccines: "It's awesome to be nominated. We've had an amazing year and it just seemed to get better and better. We were in this position this time last year where everything for us seemed to hinge on a set of predictions, so to come out with a record that's really connected with people and to be able to tour all over the world has been completely amazing."

As previously announced, Noel Gallagher is the recipient of the NME Awards 2012 Godlike Genius Award. He will also be vying for four other gongs on the night, including Best Solo Artist and Best Album for 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'.

Coalition government duo David Cameron and Nick Clegg once again attract the wrath of NME readers, both are nominated for ‘Villain Of The Year’ alongside Liam Gallagher, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. Hero Of The Year will be fought out by Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), Matt Bellamy (Muse), Noel Fielding and Noel Gallagher.

The NME Awards 2012 are thrilled to confirm comedy’s fastest rising star Jack Whitehall as this year’s host.  Having established himself as a prodigious talent on the UK comedy scene with sell out tour shows up and down the country and two British Comedy Award nominations to boot, he’s the perfect choice to keep a room of rowdy rock stars in check.  Referencing the infamous NME Awards 2006, hosted by Russell Brand, Jack commented: “It's brilliant to be able to host the NME awards I'm one step closer to having Bob Geldof call me a c*nt!”.

NME Awards 2012 nominations in full:

Best British Band supported by Sonos

Arctic Monkeys

Bombay Bicycle Club

The Horrors

Kasabian

Muse

Best International Band supported by T4

Arcade Fire

Foo Fighters

Justice

Odd Future (OFWGKTA)

The Strokes

Best Solo Artist supported by Rekorderlig

Adele

Florence + The Machine

Frank Turner

Laura Marling

Miles Kane

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

Best New Band supported by Boxfresh

Foster The People

Lana Del Rey

Tribes

The Vaccines

Wu Lyf

Best Live Band supported by Carling

Arctic Monkeys

Kasabian

Muse

Pulp

Two Door Cinema Club

Best Album supported by HMV

Artic Monkeys - Suck It and See

The Horrors - Skying

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

Arctic Monkeys - The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala

Bombay Bicycle - Club Shuffle

Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out

Hurts - Sunday

Lana Del Rey - Video Games

Dancefloor Anthem supported by NME Radio

Azelia Banks - 212

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

Justice - Civilization

Katy B - Broken Record

Metronomy - The Bay

Best Video supported by NMEVideo.com

Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See

Beyonce - Countdown

Hurts - Sunday

Lana Del Rey - Video Games

Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers

Best TV Show

Dr Who

Fresh Meat

Misfits

Never Mind The Buzzcocks

This is England 88

Best Festival

Bestival

Glastonbury

Reading & Leeds

T In The Park

V

Best Film

Black Swan

Drive

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two

Inbetweeners

Submarine

Best Music Film

Back and Forth - Foo Fighters

Living in the Material World - George Harrison

Talihina Sky - Kings of Leon

There are no Innocent Bystanders - Libertines

Upside Down - The Creation Records Story

Greatest Music Moment

Brian May joins My Chemical Romance on stage at Reading Festival

Kasabian see in 2012 with their epic O₂ show

Noel Gallagher launches solo career with classic press conference

Pulp steal the show at Glastonbury with secret set

The Stone Roses Reunite

Best Re-issue

Manic Street Preachers - National Treasures

Nirvana - Never Mind

Primal Screen - Screamadelica

Rolling Stones - Some Girls

The Smiths - Complete Re-Issues

Best Book

Jarvis Cocker - Mother, Brother, Lover. Selected Lyrics

Noel Fielding - The Scribblings of A Madcap Shambleton

Jared Leto - Notes from the Outernet

Shaun Rider - Twisting My Melon

Malcolm X - A Life of Reinvention

Hero Of The Year

Alex Turner

Dave Grohl

Matt Bellamy

Noel Fielding

Noel Gallagher

Villain Of The Year

Justin Bieber

David Cameron

Nick Clegg

Liam Gallagher

Lady Gaga

Worst Album

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

Beady Eye

Coldplay

Muse

One Direction

Viva Brother

Best Album Artwork

Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See

Bjork - Biophilia

Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix

Friendly Fires - Pala

Jay Z and Kanye West - Watch The Throne

Best Band Blog or Twitter

@Example

Frank-turner.com/blog

@kaynewest

@Ladygaga

@Theohurts

Best Small Festival

Field Day

Hop Farm

Latitude

Kendall Calling

Rockness

Most Dedicated Fans

Arctic Monkeys

Hurts

Muse

My Chemical Romance

30 Seconds To Mars

Hottest Male

Matt Bellamy - Muse

Andy Biersack - Black Veil Brides

Dom Howard - Muse

Jared Leto - 30 Seconds To Mars

Gerard Way - My Chemical Romance

Hottest Female

Marina Diamandis - Marina And The Diamonds

Amy Lee - Evanescence

Katy Perry

Florence Welch - Florence + The Machine

Hayley Williams - Paramore

The NME Awards season gets underway with the NME Awards Tour. Headlined by Two Door Cinema Club with Metronomy, Tribes and Azealia Banks also on the bill it kicks off at O₂ Academy Glasgow on February 8.

The NME Awards Shows also take place throughout February.  Justice will play a five date UK tour whilst Marina And The Diamonds, The Cribs, The Black Keys, The Drums, Kurt Vile, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Pure Love, Alabama Shakes, tUnE-yArDs, Charlie XCX, Band of Skulls, Oh Land, Little Dragon, Cloud Control, The Big Pink, The Jezabels, S.C.U.M, Zulu Winter and Slow Club are set to play NME Awards Shows in iconic venues throughout London.  

Big Boy Bloater comes to the Roadhouse Manchester in February

BIG BOY BLOATER will be at the

ROADHOUSE in MANCHESTER on 18th February

and is available for interview NOW!

He's hotly tipped by Jools Holland, Imelda May, Craig Charles and Mark Lamarr and he's coming to the NW as part of a nationwide UK tour in February!!

Since launching his new band in 2011 acclaimed blues & roots singer, guitarist and songwriter BIG BOY BLOATER has been gaining attention from all corners. The debut CD 'Big Boy Bloater and the Limits' was released in March 2011 to great critical acclaim, featuring guests Imelda May and funk-soul legend Snowboy. In just 12 months he has supported Imelda May on her nationwide tour, performed with Jools Holland's band in session and been interviewed by Jools Holland on his Radio 2 show, been a guest on the Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show on BBC6 Music, had a double page spread in Total Guitar magazine and a front cover and interview in UK Rock & Roll Magazine and now he embarks on his first nationwide tour with the new line up.

“One of the great blues men of our time” Jools Holland

“I’m a massive fan of Big Boy Bloater,

he’s a charismatic boy with a big voice” Imelda May

“Bloater is a phenomenal guitarist!” Mark Lamarr

"The next big thing in Blues" Total Guitar Magazine

"I love this guy. He has a voice that sounds like it's been

soaked in turpentine for the last decade" Craig Charles

www.bigboybloater.com

Lightning seeds hometown gig Liverpool 02 Academy Sat 12 Feb

Door time: 7.00pm


£22.50 advance Ticketweb/ www.o2academyliverpool.co.uk


The Lightning Seeds were formed by Ian Broudie in 1989. After being involved with numerous bands in post-punk Liverpool, including Big in Japan with, amongst others, Budgie and Holly Johnson, and a collaboration with Paul Simpson called Care which resulted in an album and several singles, he decided to go it alone.


The Lightning Seeds have been entertaining audiences for over 20 years, and it’s easy to see why when witnessing their unmissable live performance. Ian Broudie conceived the band and penned the majority of the critically acclaimed debut album  Cloudcuckooland, featuring the hit single Pure. The band’s 1994 album, Jollification, saw the Lightning Seeds garner the attention they rightly deserved, spawning the hit singles Lucky You, Change, Perfect and Marvellous. In 2006 they released of The Very Best of the Lightning Seeds and in 2010 the band returned to the live arena with a full UK tour  and studio album ‘Four Winds’, the first crop of Lightning Seeds songs in 10 years.


“Growing up in Liverpool in the Sixties was like being in the centre of the earth. I was going to the football and the Kop would be singing ‘She Loves You’.” Says Ian “ Both my brothers had a lot of records: Dylan, Cream, bluesy guitar players. Plus I had a little transistor radio and got Radio Caroline, from when pop music was very free. Then it was the Seventies and Bowie played The Liverpool Empire and it was as if everybody who was going to go on and make music in Liverpool was at this gig. For me it was about Roxy Music, Frank Zappa, and, like everyone in Liverpool then and now, Captain Beefheart, Pink Floyd, Love and the Velvet Underground.”


Ian Broudie is part of the fabric of British pop culture. Born in the Fifties, child of the Sixties, crucial player in Liverpool punk in the Seventies, alternative rock production genius in the Eighties, pop star in the Nineties and Godfather figure to some of Liverpool’s new leading lights of the Noughties. He was the studio magician behind the legendary Echo And The Bunnymen and has lately sprinkled stardust over The Coral and Zutons. And mingling in the midst of all of this music and creativity came The Lightning Seeds, with a string of classic hit singles, and a little football song (‘Three Lions’) still bellowed out from the terraces at England matches.

Dodgy Announce Eric's Liverpool date Saturday 18 February

£15 Ticketmaster or  Box Office 0151-236 9994 / www.ericslive.com

Having spent the Spring of 2011 in the studio, writing and recording a new album, the band went to Denton, Texas to work on mixing the songs. "Stand Up In A Cool Place" will be released on Strikeback Records in February 2012, following an extensive Autumn/Winter tour of the UK.

‘What Became Of You’ is the first single to be taken from ‘Stand Upright In A Cool Place’, the first album of new material from the three original members of Dodgy since the platinum selling ‘Free Peace Sweet’.

Rather than following the trend of bands reforming to play their classic albums in full, Dodgy boldly announced that on their recent, extensive UK tour, it was their new album that would be previewed live in its entirety. Luckily it was a gamble that paid off; the tour was successful, audiences enthusiastic and ‘What Became Of You’ just one amongst several highlights from the new material.Nigel Clark (vocals/bass guitar), Mathew Priest (drums/vocals) and Andy Miller (guitar/vocals) decided to regroup as Dodgy after they came together at the funeral of one of their original crew members; it was hard to remember why there had been a hiatus in the first place and very soon afterwards they got together and quickly rediscovered their creative chemistry.

‘What Became Of You’ was one of the first new songs worked on but went through several recordings before the final version was mixed with the rest of the album tracks by the band and Matt Pence (John Grant, Midlake) in Texas. Like the rest of the new album, the single retains classic Dodgy harmonies, melodic invention and poignant lyrics. 

If Dodgy were to play one of their classic albums in full (there are no plans at the moment), it might well be ‘Homegrown’ resulting in a set order opening with ‘Staying Out For The Summer’, ‘Melodies Haunt You’ and ‘So Let Me Go Far’ – all hit singles in their own right.

It is perhaps no coincidence that when Dodgy first established themselves with the release of ‘Homegrown’, it was the last time the UK was in the midst of a major recession, with ‘Staying Out For The Summer’ a somewhat ironic but uplifting anthem for the times.
Perhaps timely then, that ‘What Became Of You’ has been chosen as the song for their return, counterpointing another uplifting melody with lyrics very much reflective of now, questioning how much leaders and major institutions have rapidly lost any integrity as they rely on spin, mistruths and blatant lies to hide their own shortcomings and failings.
‘What Became Of You’ is released on February 20th.

Former Masque night Snub 2 february shows announced for Lomax Liverpool

Snub 2 february shows announced for Lomax Liverpool

Earlier this month the sad news that the Masque Theatre in Liverpool was closing was unleashed upon us from nowhere. This was a shock to the system for most people in the city and for the artists that played there. Luckily from the ashes comes a Phoenix. The much loved Snub Festival, which allowed new acts to experience playing live, has been revived. Now in the charge of former Masque PR Gemma Smith, we are proud to announced SNUB 2

This will be put on 3 nights a month at The Lomax with Wireless mag
The first shows for the new year have already been announced and we are sure that the support SNUB Festival received will carry across to this new established night. So make sure to show your support for this and get along to some of the shows in February 2012

Our first shows will be;

2nd Feb - Metal ft Oceanis, Hollow Dreams, The Day Will Come, Entropy and more.

3rd Feb - Indie ft The Temps, White Heat and more.

5th Feb - Rock/Alt ft Guardians, ATQO and more.

All nights will be £3 entry or less.

Follow SNUB 2 at the following places.

Snub II - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=531361230#!/Snubtwo

http://twitter.com/#!/snubtwo

 

The War on Drugs Liverpool show at the Kazimier

plus special guest support TBA

7.30pm, 23 February @ The Kazimier

Tickets £9adv available from Ticketline, Seeticekts, Ticketweb, Probe Records & Hairy Records (The Music Consortium

The band is steeped in music of the past, mining the territory between Americana and the esoteric UK. rock of the 80s. With songs that coax comparisons to Tom Petty and The Smiths, Bob Dylan and Brian Eno, the band's debut Wagonwheel Blues wears its many influences proudly and prominently.

It all began back in 2005, when Adam Granduciel met Kurt Vile and began playing music. Several lineup changes later, Adam Granduciel and bass player Dave Hartley remain the group’s only original members.

The vehicle of Adam Granduciel — frontman, rambler, shaman, pied piper guitarist and apparent arranger-extraordinaire — The War on Drugs seemed similarly obsessed with disparate ideas, with building uncompromised rock monuments from pieces that might have seemed odd pairs. On their debut, the life-affirming Wagonwheel Blues, folk-rock marathons come damaged by drum machines.

Electronic and instrumental reprises precede songs they’ve yet to play, and Dr. Seuss becomes lyrical motivation for bold futuristic visions.

Now, Granduciel has done it again, better than before: Slave Ambient, their proper second album, is a brilliant 47-minute sprawl of rock ’n’ roll, conceptualized with a sense of adventure and captured with seasons of bravado. Slave Ambient features a team of Philadelphia’s finest musicians, including multi-instrumentalists Dave Hartley and Robbie Bennett, and drummer Mike Zanghi. Recorded throughout the last four years at Granduciel’s home studio in Philly, Jeff Ziegler’s Uniform Recording and Echo Mountain in Asheville, NC, the album puts the weirdest influences in just the right places. Synthesizers fall where you might expect more electric guitars (and vice versa); country-rock sidles up to the warped extravagance of ’80s pop. Instant classic “Baby Missiles” is part Springsteen fever dream, part motorik anthem.

The War on Drugs are one of the most exciting young rock ‘n’ roll bands in the world. People question that conviction, unconvinced that an act so new or with such clear historical forebears could absolutely be called a favorite. Sure, TheWar on Drugs’music overflows with echoes and strains of the songs and sounds we’ve all loved, yet it always feels singular and seamless, a perfect and pure distillation of influences into something that sounds like nothing else. Every song on Slave Ambient is instantly identifiable and infinitely intricate, a latticework of ideas and energies building into mile-high rock anthems.

They are songs for future converts, welcome signs for folks who should, soon enough, also call The War on Drugs their favorite young rock ’n’ roll band on the planet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMToQg0vSds

http://www.thewarondrugs.net/