Who Were The Winners At The NME Awards 2020?
The NME Awards. A wild night of celebration, appreciation and admiration for all the outstanding talent the music industry has to offer by one of the UK’s biggest publications. However, this is the NME Awards and like any other year it can’t go without its controversies, kick offs and otherwise untameable nature. From Slowtai’s unacceptable behaviour to Swift’s surprise appearance, here is our short, quick witted responses to all our favourite winners at the NME Awards 2020.
Best Live Act: Foals
Yes. Deserved. 100%
Best Festival Headliner: The Cure
Given The Cure’s recent Glastonbury headlining slot and quite frankly their legendary status as one of Britain’s best bands, this award belongs to the five piece.
Best British Festival + Best Festival In The World: Glastonbury
If you happen to disagree with Glastonbury winning Best Festival, please exit this page right now.
Innovation Award: The 1975
From printing on old t-shirts at Reading And Leeds Festival to Matty Healey walking through a gigantic iPhone screen on stage almost every night. The 1975 are the ultimate innovators of this modern generation. Did we mention that stellar collab with Greta Thunberg too?
Best Music Video: Yungblud - ‘Original Me’
Yungblud and Dan Reynolds being crushed by flying and falling cars only to rebound and get back up bigger, better and stronger than every. Yes, this is the best music video okay.
Best British Song: AJ Tracey - ‘Ladbroke Grove’
“It's the hyper man set/AJ Tracey, live and direct/DJ mash up, them mash up the deck/The microphone champ is live and direct”. This has been stuck in our heads for the best part of 6 months ever since AJ Tracey’s epic main stage set at Reading and Leeds 2020. Writing out these lyrics has only made it worser.
Best Song In The World: Billie Eilish - ‘Bad Guy’
Duh, this is obviously the best song in the world.
Godlike Genius Award: Emily Eavis
Emily Eavis is a queen, goddess, godlike genius. End of conversation.
For the full list of winners apart from our slightly biased picks, head on over to NME here:
