At Wednesday night’s NME Awards ceremony in Brixton Academy, alt-rockers Wolf Alice won big and Coldplay’s table was trashed by Bring Me the Horizon during an energetic live performance.
Wolf Alice
The winners of this year’s NME Awards were announced at a ceremony in Brixton on Wednesday night at a star-studded ceremony hosted by Radio 1’s Huw Stephens.
North London rock quartet Wolf Alice took home two of the most coveted gongs of the night – ‘Best Live Band’ and ‘Best Track’ for their 2015 smash hit, ‘Giant Peach’. The Maccabees were also celebrating, having won ‘Best British Band’ – only a couple of weeks after they gigged at the venue. Foals, who opened the show with ‘What Went Down’, picked up the ‘Best Album’ award.
A highlight from the evening came when rock group Bring Me the Horizon trashed Coldplay’s table – apparently it wasn’t deliberately targeted, but Chris Martin did seem a bit bemused. It didn’t stop the young band picking up the NME Innovation Award.
Coldplay were presented with a ‘Godlike Genius’ award by Kylie Minogue and closed the show with a set of career-spanning hits including Fix You, Adventure of a Lifetime, Clocks, and Viva la Vida.
Mike Williams, NME editor-in-chief, said: “The last 12 months have been massive for NME, so I’m delighted that we’ve been able to celebrate with such an amazing knees-up.”
Donald Trump was named ‘Villain of the Year’ while Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl was crowned ‘Hero of the Year’. For a second year in a row, 5 Seconds of Summer proved unpopular with the NME audience, voted ‘Worst Band of the Year’.
The complete list of NME Awards 2016 are below:
GODLIKE GENIUS – COLDPLAY
NME INSPIRATION AWARD – YOKO ONO
NME INNOVATION AWARD – BRING ME THE HORIZON
BEST BRITISH BAND – THE MACCABEES
BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND SUPPORTED BY AUSTIN, TEXAS – RUN THE JEWELS
BEST BRITISH SOLO ARTIST SUPPORTED BY PILOT PENS – CHARLI XCX
BEST INTERNATIONAL SOLO ARTIST SUPPORTED BY NIKON – TAYLOR SWIFT
BEST LIVE BAND SUPPORTED BY RED STRIPE – WOLF ALICE
BEST ALBUM SUPPORTED BY HMV – FOALS – ‘WHAT WENT DOWN’
MUSIC MOMENT OF THE YEAR – THE LIBERTINES SECRET GLASTONBURY SET
BEST TRACK – WOLF ALICE – ‘GIANT PEACH’
BEST NEW ARTIST SUPPORTED BY TOPMAN– RAT BOY
BEST MUSIC VIDEO – SLAVES – ‘CHEER UP LONDON’
BEST MUSIC FILM – BLUR: NEW WORLD TOWERS
BEST FILM – BEASTS OF NO NATION
BEST TV SHOW – THIS IS ENGLAND 90
BEST ACTRESS – VICKY MCCLURE
BEST ACTOR – IDRIS ELBA
BEST FESTIVAL – GLASTONBURY
BEST SMALL FESTIVAL SUPPORTED BY ID&C – END OF THE ROAD
BEST REISSUE – DAVID BOWIE – FIVE YEARS
BEST BOOK – PATTI SMITH – ‘M TRAIN’
BEST FAN COMMUNITY – THE LIBERTINES
BEST VLOGGER – KSI
HERO OF THE YEAR – DAVE GROHL
VILLAIN OF THE YEAR – DONALD TRUMP
WORST BAND – 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
