NME awards...The good, the bad and the...what?

Hello Everyone!
So...the most rock and roll night of the year happened on Wednesday (15th Feb)...the NME awards. Here's a run down of what went on...from the good and the bad to the...err...what?

The Good

The NME awards kicked off with an amazing performance from Bastille, singing their Best track nominated...er...track Good Grief, complete with images that fans will know were from their Wild Wild World tour. Things got even better for the London quartet that night, as they won the Best album award for Wild World, beating the likes of Beyonce, Radiohead and the Mercury Prize 2016 winner, Skepta.

Another highlight was seeing the Pet Shop Boys get the Godlike Genius award. Having watched the eccentric 80s duo live, as a support act for Take That back in 2011, I can assure everyone that it was a good choice. Ending the show, performing hits, such as West End Girls and It's a Sin, they provided proof of why they deserved to win this award.

In the awards based on festivals, Glastonbury rightly won Best festival and Coldplay won Music Moment of the Year, after their touching tribute to Viola Beach. This involved Coldplay creating an "Alternative future" for the band, by covering Boys That Sing, enabling them to be Glastonbury Headliners for one night. Meanwhile, Adele won Best Headliner.

The Bad

OK...so the points I'm going to make are not necessarily bad but I am a bit biased when it comes with who I want to win at awards ceremonies. Having seen Bastille live, I reckon they would have easily walked away with the best Live act award. It is particularly noteworthy that The 1975 got voted worst band a couple of years ago by NME readers and now they are being voted the Best Live act. Err...okay then.

In the mean time, Biffy Clyro won Best British Band. Again, I would have liked to have seen either Bastille or The Last Shadow Puppets win. However, with their most recent album, Ellipses, going to number one in the UK official album chart and gaining headline slots at T in the Park and Download, it's fair to see why they got the prize.

Regarding the best track, Bastille lost out to Christine and the Queens' Tilted.  Christine and the Queens also managed to beat Beyoncé at best international female but I still think Christine and the Queens is a good artist.

The err...what?!

So...it is always a little bit strange when a politician attends an awards ceremony so when the London Mayor, Sadiq Kahn turned up to present an award, I was a little bit surprised. However, it actually worked. He even got a photo with a Skepta and Wiley, among others. Just think, it could have been Boris Johnson...

Another interesting moment was when Matty Healy from The 1975 came to get the award for best Live act and started waffling about the current state of the world. However, I couldn't help but think that he was slightly tipsy (the wine glass in his hand might have been a clue).

Finally, it's not exactly music based but I was shocked that Stranger things didn't win best TV show. It got beaten by Fleabag. So a Netflix hit TV show which has practically been watched by everyone lost out to a TV show not many might have heard of. Yep...makes perfect sense.


I hope you enjoyed my summary of the NME awards. Here's to next year's :)

Em x