Bloc Party Blogs
(240 views) The wildest music awards are nearly here The Shockwaves NME Awards 2009 will take place at London's O2 Academy Brixton Today and this year's festivities are hosted by comedian Mark Watson.
Oasis are poised for success with no less than seven nominations, including Best British Band, Best Live Band and Best Album.
Absolute Radio's Adrian Hieatt will be reporting back from the awards with red carpet interviews from the stars.
The Nominations:
Best British Band
Bloc Party
The Last Shadow Puppets
Muse
Oasis
Radiohead
Best International Band
Crystal Castles
The Killers
Kings Of Leon
MGMT
Vampire Weekend
Best Solo Artist
Ladyhawke
Laura Marling
Lightspeed Champion
Jay-Z
Pete Doherty
Best New Band
Glasvegas
Late Of The Pier
MGMT
Vampire Weekend
White Lies
Best Live Band
The Killers
Kings Of Leon
Muse
Oasis
Radiohead
Best Album
Bloc Party – 'Intimacy'
Glasvegas – 'Glasvegas'
The Killers – 'Day & Age'
Kings Of Leon – 'Only By The Night'
Oasis – 'Dig Out Your Soul'
Best Track
Kings Of Leon – 'Sex On Fire'
The Last Shadow Puppets – 'The Age Of The Understatement'
MGMT – 'Time To Pretend'
The Ting Tings – 'That's Not My Name'
Vampire Weekend – 'A-Punk'
Best Video
The Last Shadow Puppets – 'My Mistakes Were Made For You'
Late Of The Pier – 'Heartbreak'
Oasis – 'The Shock Of The Lightning'
Radiohead – 'House Of Cards'
Vampire Weekend – 'A-Punk'
Best Live Event
Glastonbury
Isle Of Wight
Reading and Leeds
T In The Park
V Festival
Best TV Show
Gavin & Stacey
The IT Crowd
The Mighty Boosh
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Skins
Best Film
The Dark Knight
Juno
Quantum Of Solace
Twilight
Wall-E
Best Dancefloor Filler
Bloc Party – 'Mercury'
Crystal Castles – 'Courtship Dating'
Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris – 'Dance Wiv Me'
Friendly Fires – 'Paris'
Late Of The Pier – 'Bathroom Gurgle'
Best DVD
Arctic Monkeys – 'At The Apollo'
Foo Fighters – 'Live At Wembley Stadium'
Kaiser Chiefs – 'Live At Elland Road'
Muse – 'HAARP'
The Rolling Stones – 'Shine A Light'
Hero Of The Year
Alex Turner
Barack Obama
Brandon Flowers
Noel Fielding
Noel Gallagher
Villain Of The Year
Amy Winehouse
George Bush
Gordon Brown
John McCain
Pete Doherty
Best Dressed
Alex Turner
Alexa Chung
Brandon Flowers
Noel Fielding
Noel Gallagher
Worst Dressed
Amy Winehouse
Brandon Flowers
Johnny Borrell
Katy Perry
Pete Doherty
Worst Album
Britney Spears – 'Circus'
Coldplay – 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends'
Jonas Brothers – 'A Little Bit Longer'
Razorlight – 'Slipway Fires'
Scouting For Girls – 'Scouting For Girls'
Worst Band
Fall Out Boy
Jonas Brothers
Oasis
Scouting for Girls
Tokio Hotel
Sexiest Male
Carl Barat
Keith Murray
Matt Bellamy
Miles Kane
Pete Doherty
Sexiest Female
Alison Mosshart
Hayley Williams
Kate Jackson
Lykke Li
Stephanie Dosen
Best Website
Bebo
Facebook
Last FM
MySpace
YouTube
Best Venue
Brixton Academy
Manchester Apollo
London Astoria
Glasgow Barrowlands
London O2 Arena
Best Album Artwork
The Cure – '4:13 Dream'
Guillemots – 'Red'
The Killers – 'Day & Age'
Muse – 'HAARP'
We Are Scientists – 'Brain Thrust Mastery'
Best Band Blog
Foals
Lightspeed Champion
Little Boots
Noel Gallagher/Oasis
Radiohead
The Shockwaves NME Awards 2009 Godlike Genius award has already been announced and is going to The Cure.
Tags: The Cure Oasis Oasis Oasis Oasis The Rolling Stones Radiohead Coldplay Foo Fighters Britney Spears Muse Muse Kings Of Leon Razorlight Bloc Party Bloc Party The Killers Kaiser Chiefs Arctic Monkeys We are Scientists Fall Out Boy Guillemots Jay-Z Pete Doherty Noel Gallagher Amy Winehouse Late Of The Pier Foals Scouting For Girls Jonas Brothers The Ting Tings Lightspeed Champion Lightspeed Champion Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend Laura Marling Glasvegas MGMT White Lies The Last Shadow Puppets Katy Perry Ladyhawke Crystal Castles
(99 views)I'm sad today,
my son has just lost a good friend very suddenly, he is in bits and I am in bits for him. Life throws terrible things at us but I ask why take the life of 20 year old with so much to give.
I am to post some songs on my facebook profile on the day of the funeral as a tribute, starting with helicopter, bloc party. Jason's favourite song. Its a sad time all round.
My heart goes out to Jason's family and my thoughts, of course, are with them.
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(391 views)so with a line up of...
Kaiser Chiefs ...
Manic street preachers...
Klaxons...
The cribs..
and Bloc party....
Is there anyone u would of liked to see aswell up there?
is anyone going?
Ticketmaster still has tickets! i just got a pair and cant wait!
Tags: Manic Street Preachers Bloc Party Kaiser Chiefs The Cribs Klaxons
(659 views)Woke up early yesterday morning, unusual for me on a Saturday. 49 long days ago I was one of the lucky ones to receive a text message from Ticketmaster telling me I can purchase two tickets for Live Earth. You can imagine my excitement when I opened my eyes and it dawned on me that THE day has finally arrived.
After weeks and weeks of cold, miserable weather on 07/07/07 even the sun decided to make an appearance, as if the weather knew what the gig was all about.
Met up with some friends in Ealing Broadway, all young kids, used to going to festivals and concerts, old pros. One of the guys was getting ready to go to work that morning when his girlfriend told him to stop ironing his shirt because he was going to Wembley instead. Then she kindly phoned his boss on his behalf and told him he was too sick to come to work. Never met the girl, but I like her already.
We caught a bus from Ealing Broadway and it was a long, torturous, hot journey, traffic on Hanger Lane is always slow. Sitting on top of the double-decker bus seeing the arch getting closer and closer.... that feeling in the pit of your stomach I had all morning getting more and more intense, we're nearly there!!!
As we were on the pitch we had to queue up for nearly 40 minutes slowly moving up and down stairs, onto the pavement and back up to the stadium again to get in, but no one cared. By that time the sun was shining full blast... saw two guys dressed as bananas (they must have been boiling underneath) and finally we walked onto the pitch just as Chris Moyles in his unmissable black leather jacket introduces Genesis. And they sure did not disappoint. We're dancing away already, then it's Razorlight, everybody shouting 'watching America,....', Snow Patrol got us all moving. Time for a breather during David Grey and Damien Rice performance before we're all jumping around with Kasabian.
Loved Paolo Nutini, he is just so cute you want to take him home with you, he sure put some feelings into his performance. My name comes up on the background during his performance. Not a big fan of Black Eyed Peas, but my son likes them and they were energetic that's for sure. Missed John Legend as I was queueing up for the toilets, as you do...but came back just in time for Duran Duran. I used to have posters of Roger Taylor all over my bedroom when I was about 10 or 11!!
Then the moment I've been waiting for as Chris Rock introduces Red Hot Chili Peppers and the whole stadium is on their feet. Gosh they were good!! Love Anthony with short hair, Flea and his energy, John so full of emotion, Chad drumming away like there's no tomorrow in his blue shirt, love all the songs they chose to play, especially 'So much I' and 'By the way'. I could have listened to them all night.
Keane were excellent and the whole stadium broke into a sing-a-long, but nothing could prepare me for Metallica, my gang are all big fans, this was the moment they were all waiting for and boy were they something else!! My daughter said to me this morning she did not like the guy with the beard as he looked mean and nasty he he.
By the time Spinal Tap come on I am exhausted, sweaty, my feet are stuck to the floor from spilt beverages, people are making big chains with discarded plastic cups, everyone is dirty but happy, there are some serious Mexican waves going round the seating area - amazing to see when you're on the floor. They were joined by "every bass player in the universe", seeing Metallica guitarists back on stage got everybody going again.
What a day! Beastie Boys proved they still got it, and the Foo fighters were (as my friend Emma put it) effing brilliant!!!
The queen of pop rounds it all up and shows why she holds the title. Never been a fan, but you got to hand it to her, she is great.
There you go, I had an absolutely amazing time in Wembley yesterday, my feet are still killing me, I feel like I've been trampled on, my throat is sore from all the shouting and screaming and singing......definitely a day I will not forget for a long long time.
Tags: Madonna Metallica Genesis Duran Duran David Gray Beastie Boys Foo Fighters Red Hot Chili Peppers Damien Rice Snow Patrol Razorlight Keane Bloc Party Kasabian James Blunt Paolo Nutini Spinal Tap Corinne Bailey Rae John Legend Terra Naomi The Black Eyed Peas
(595 views)well im here in glastonbury and virtually mud free wohoo, wonder how long that'll last! was under the impression joanna newsome was playing this weekend but alas shes not :'( quite gutted really
oh well there are zillions of other bands here to see that iv always wanted to so i will be keeping away from alot of the mainstream bands this year and seeing the other bands and artist ( but of course i will still see !!! maximo and bloc party )
will also be spending alot of time in the acoustic and dance tents wohoo
will hopefully not drown in the mud! hope everyone has a fab wkend
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(174 views)for those of you in the states. i just heard that Bloc Party are going to be on Leno tonight. so if you get a chance check it out.
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(653 views)wooooo i can hear the sirens coming lmao it was a bloody fantastic night!!!
i sooo stayed at the INMWT stage ( coz i really would pick kaiser's over my beloved maximo!!!!)
M.I.A was really good, very interesting live act and good at engaging the crowd. loved the costumes they were wearing thou it did start making my eyes go funny!?!
Dizzie Rascal was fcuking fantastic :) was brilliant, thou i think thats where my first set of barrier bruises came from ( i was right at the front in the middle and very unfortunately appear alot on the telly. i am in hiding now ) his set seemed to be over way to quickly for my liking.
klaxons were ok, iv seen them play alot better but the crowd were mad for them so it was great in that the atmosphere was mental!!! proper lost my head in that :)
MAXIMO FANTASTICO were bloody fantastic :) :) :) :)
from the first cord to the very last i dont think i breathed i was that excited!! personal highlight was books and girls and urge. loved how archis and duncan really lost themselves , it was beyond words. and paul better watch his back as lucas is dominating the stage at the moment! speaking of Mr smith( who9 i spotted gettin into dizzie rascal side stage) he was great, really pushing the songs to the furthest he possibly could, at one point i thought his veins would explode. got some fantastic photos ( and the my beloved set list) which i shall put on my website in the next few weeks. i'll post a link when i have.
and last but not least
Bloc Party! they were great, it's the first iv seen them since V06 so it was great tio hear how the new songs have come along so well. i was still way to hyper from maximo's set to remeber the first few songs but i really enjoyed it. still cant decide which song was my fav from their set yet.... my attention span is at minimum today as iv had 5 hours sleep :'(
Tags: Bloc Party Maximo Park Klaxons M.I.A.