What is it with award ceremonies. The potential to have a really exciting night is there. You have bands from all over the world, so many big personalities and yet the NME awards 2007 were pretty flat.
Last year Russell Brand hosted the show.It was funny, a bit controversial and I do believe he upset some people (esp; Bob Geldoff and the Arctic Monkeys) but when he told a joke it was at least funny and clever. This year had XFM's Lauren Laverne doing the honours. It was embarrassing just how awful she was. Her jokes weren't jokes, the running theme that she was running the bar in between announcing acts was childish. Her timing was awful and you could see her reading the auto-queue all the time. She was useless.
The acts playing were also rather disappointing . Kasabian to open the show were OK, nothing spectacular but they played well.
The Killers were one of the few gems of the night, ditching their own stuff to play a Joy Division track that was a blinder.
The View (yawn) Kaiser Chiefs (crap) Primal Scream (Hmmm) Beth and Jarvis... now that was pretty inspired.
Cannot understand how The View got best single... I'd never even heard the track. Very odd.
My Chemical Romance, best international band? Load of tosh. Best dressed Faris Rotter? Irony maybe?
I have no idea why Babyshambles were nominated for so many awards. Least they didn't win. Tossers.
The whole event lacked any fun. Lauren Laverne's attempts at pulling it all together were futile and frankly I was bored.
Next time NME let bands like The Automatic Play. Pennie could light up the national grid with energy.
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