Mick Jagger Remembered

The Nme Awards are an annual music awards show, founded by the music magazine, NME (New Musical Express).The first awards show was held in 1953 as the Nme Poll Winners Concerts, shortly after the founding of the magazine.The awards began as the Nme Poll Winners Concert and awards ceremonies in the 1953. These continued through the 1960s, where concerts were filmed and broadcast on ITV. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were most commonly featured.

The awards began again in 1994 as the Nme Brat Awards an punning alternative to the Brit Awards. The initial award ceremonies were supportive of the burgeoning Britpop scene with Oasis becoming the first band in the modern era to win three awards. Again in 1996 Oasis won four awards.Later in the decade major winners were the Manic Street Preachers “4 awards in 1999″ and Blur “three awards in 2000″.

In 2002, the awards reflected the Nme’s support for the “New Rock Revolution” Garage Rock revival, with The Strokes winning three awards (Best New Act, Best Album, and Band of the Year).

In 2006, Arctic Monkeys won both “Best New Band” and “Best British Band” in the same year and became the third band in the modern era to win three awards (Best New Band, Best British Band, Best Track).

In 2007, Razorlight received a worst album nomination for their self-titled album, which Nme themselves gave 8/10. This made it the highest rated album to receive a worst album nomination.

In 2008, the ceremony was followed by the NME Big Gig at the adjacent O2 Arena, where The Cribs performed with Johnny Marr, followed by Klaxons, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, and Manic Street Preachers, who also performed with Tom Clarke of The Enemy and Cerys Matthews.

In 2009, Oasis were nominated for a record 7 awards, whilst Villain of the Year went to George W. Bush for the sixth year in a row.

Nme Awards is coming to the UK next. Fans will be able to access the events from start of February to end of february. Overall Nme Awards going to perform at 14 different places in UK.