Sharon Horgan & Michael Sheen To Lead Jack Thorne’s ‘Best Interests’
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Aisling Bea has won Best TV Actor at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 for her portrayal of Áine in the dramedy This Way Up.The Irish comedian, who also wrote the razor-sharp series, beat out Mae Martin, Ncuti Gatwa, Olly Alexander, and Euphoria‘s Zendaya for the prize.“Big shout-out to the small, independent TV show Euphoria! I’m sure we all expected this – I didn’t,” Bea said while collecting the award on stage at the O2 Academy Brixton from Munya Chawawa and Amelia Dimoldenberg.She added: “Ever since I started out acting, I always wanted to win a music award. Genuinely, I will use this [award] tonight in my own special way… Thank you so so much, honestly.“Myself and Sharon Horgan had a moment where we sang ‘Zombie’ by The Cranberries, and it took off.
I would like to dedicate this award to the late, great Dolores O’Riordan, who I am in awe of.”Bea joins previous award winner Jessica Barden, in being recognised for their outstanding boundary-pushing performances.“Making This Way Up knocked the shit out of me,” Aisling Bea told NME last year when asked about the series which follows Áine – an Irish woman living in London as an English-as-a-foreign-language tutor. To everyone around her, she seems friendly and engaging, but a recent nervous breakdown means Áine is struggling to put her life back together.“I wanted to reflect the reality of most people – someone who isn’t having a terrible life, loads of thing aren’t going wrong for them and [who looks like] they have everything together,” she said.Bea added: “I wanted to do show that [recovery] isn’t linear – and that is most people’s experience.
The romcom ‘yays!’ and the balloons at the end aren’t truthful to me. I don’t know that experience.”The BandLab NME Awards 2022
.Sharon Horgan & Michael Sheen To Lead Jack Thorne’s ‘Best Interests’
K.J. Yossman Locksmith Animation’s “Ron’s Gone Wrong” has won the award for best long form at the British Animation Awards 2022.Locksmith, which was founded by by Aardman Animations veterans Sarah Smith and Julie Lockhart alongside Elisabeth Murdoch, picked up the award at a ceremony in London on Thursday evening.The awards took place at London’s BFI Southbank and were presented by comedian Miles Jupp.Other winners on the night included Magic Light Pictures, for their adaptations of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s “Zog and the Flying Doctors” and Scheffler’s “Pip and Posy,” while production co-ordinator Hodan Abdi picked up the Lamb award, which “bridges the gap between current categories which recognise student achievements and general best-in-class awards, and is open to any young professionals working in the animation and VFX industry.” And 86-year-old Menna Trussler beat out Taika Waititi, Ricky Gervais and Ben Wishaw to take home the award for best voice performance, for her portrayal of Beryl in “Affairs of the Art.”“We have been amazed at the quality of the entrants for this year’s British Animation Awards and would like to offer our heartfelt congratulations to all the winners and nominees,” said BAA director Helen Brunsdon and producer Kieran Argo.
Best TV Actor to This Way Up‘s Aisling Bea, Munya Chawawa and Amelia Dimoldenberg paid a visit to the BandLab NME Awards 2022 winners’ room. Watch our full video interview above.“Amelia and the one man she couldn’t get into the chicken shop!” Chawawa shouted before Dimoldenberg pointed out that he’d already been a guest on her Chicken Shop Date series twice.All jokes aside, the pair did take a moment to dwell on their tight friendship, with Chawawa discussing their “electric chemistry” and saying he did his “first-ever interview with Amelia five years ago and she’s always been a champion of my [work] so just standing in her presence is making me emotional.”Amelia responded: “He’s crying.
BandLab NME Awards 2022, Best TV Actor winner Aisling Bea revealed that she is working on a movie about the music of Take That. Watch our full video interview above.The actor, comedian and writer was speaking to NME from the winner’s room, having just picked up the middle finger trophy for Best TV Actor for her portrayal of Áine in the dramedy This Way Up.“I am in an utter state of shock, needless to say,” Bea told NME after her win.
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Fontaines D.C. have reacted to winning Best Band In The World at the BandLab NME Awards 2022: “About time!”The Irish band beat out Amyl & The Sniffers, Ben&Ben, Bring Me The Horizon, CHVRCHES, Glass Animals, HAIM, Måneskin, Nova Twins and Wolf Alice for the trophy.In their acceptance speech, they gave props to CHVRCHES and Robert Smith for their performance of The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’ earlier in the night, and poked fun at the government: “We’re gonna party like Number 10 tonight!”Speaking to NME in the winner’s room at the O2 Academy Brixton on March 2, frontman Grian Chatten had a succinct response to their win: “About time.”He added: “We’ve never really won an award before, so I don’t know, I’ve never seen people so elated in my whole life.”Carlos O’Connell quipped: “We had to keep telling ourselves we were the best band in the world from the moment we started.
BandLab NME Awards 2022, Robert Smith gave NME the lowdown of The Cure‘s next album and exclusively told us the title. Watch our full video interview with Smith above.Having long teased the band’s long-awaited “merciless” new record – having told us that two new albums were on the way back at the last NME Awards back in 2020 – Smith tonight revealed that one of them would be “real very soon”, as well as sharing more about its sister record and his anticipated solo album.“So I’ve been working on two Cure albums, and one of them is finished,” Smith told NME. “Unfortunately, it’s the second one that’s finished.
Life Is Beautiful returned last year with headliners Tame Impala, Green Day and Billie Eilish.During the festival, Eilish used her time on stage to debut three tracks from her album ‘Happier Than Ever’ for the first time, and told the crowd it felt like “a dream I’ve had many, many times in the last year… I can’t tell you how excited I am to be with you guys and to see all of your beautiful faces.”You can see NME’s photos from the 2021 festival here.
Bobby Gillespie has won Best Music Book at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 this evening (March 2) for Tenement Kid.The Primal Scream frontman’s memoir beat music books by Dave Grohl (The Storyteller: Tales Of Life And Music), Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast (Crying In H Mart), Questlove (Music Is History) and Paul McCartney (The Lyrics) for the win.“I’m very pleased and honoured to receive the Best Music Book award,” said Bobby. “Thank you NME!”Published October 21, Tenement Kid tells Gillespie’s story up until the creation of Primal Scream’s classic album ‘Screamadelica’.In 2007, Primal Scream were crowned Godlike Genius at the NME Awards.
the BandLab NME Awards 2022 for her dazzling acting debut as Alana Kane in Licorice Pizza.The rock star-turned-actress beat out Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonathan Majors, Riz Ahmed and Thomasin McKenzie for the prize.Last year, she told NME that she had “no movie star training” before taking on the role in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s film.“I jumped in at the deep end,” Alana said. “I had no experience. I asked Paul if I should and he was like, ‘No, don’t do anything.
Wolf Alice have been crowned the Best Festival Headliner at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.The London band beat Billie Eilish, Liam Gallagher, Megan Thee Stallion and Tyler, The Creator to the title.Wolf Alice made their first post-lockdown festival appearance at Latitude Festival last summer, where they played a headline slot at Henham Park. Their performance saw them deliver a roaring rendition of ‘The Last Man On Earth’, as well as a cover of The Velvet Underground‘s ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’.In a review of their set at Latitude, NME wrote: “Wolf Alice might not be old guard yet, but their Friday night headlining performance makes their future incredibly clear – legends of British music who top bills on the regular.”Wolf Alice were up for four other nominations at the BandLab NME Awards 2022, including Best Band In The World and Best Album In The World.
Taylor Swift has won Best Reissue at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 for the re-imagining of her 2012 pivotal album, ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’.She beat out OutKast (‘ATLiens)’, Nirvana (‘Nevermind’), Radiohead (‘Kid Amnesiae’), and The Beatles (‘Let It Be’) for the prize.In a four-star review, NME said the album’s production is “a little sharper” than the original 2012 release, “with instrumentation being brought further into focus”, adding that Swift’s voice had matured “significantly in the intervening decade” since she released ‘Red’.The new version also featured fresh additions like the poignant charity single ‘Ronan’, ‘Better Man’ as song that was originally written for Little Big Town in 2016, and ‘Babe’, which long-time collaborator, producer, and this year’s Songwriter Award winner Jack Antonoff adds brass and ‘1989’-style shine to.In 2020, Swift picked up the NME award for Best Solo Act In The World, sharing that she was “honoured and very excited” about the award.“I want to say thank you so much to anyone who writes about music, who blogs about music, who tweets about music, who cares about music,” she said. “But most of all, I want to say thank you to the fans because they are the only reason that I get to do this.”She added: “Thank you to all of the artists that are here tonight, I am such a fan of all of you.
Nia Archives has won Best Producer Supported By BandLab at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.The producer, on the rise for her fresh and vibrant jungle sound, beat out Arca, Fred Again.., India Jordan, and Travis Barker for this year’s award.“It’s an enormous role, but one thing all of tonight’s nominees have in common is they are all dedicated to their craft,” presenter Tiffany Calver said of the job of a producer.“I fucking love jungle music,” Archives said while accepting the award at London’s O2 Academy Brixton, adding that she dedicates the win to her little brother.“It doesn’t matter who you are, it doesn’t matter where you come from, you can do whatever you like and you can make something of yourself,” she added.Nia Archives was born in Bradford and raised in Manchester on a steady diet of reggae, rocksteady and old-school jungle. She made the cut for the NME 100 2022, which lists a hundred essential emerging artists to keep an eye on this year, for her “dancefloor-ready nu-jazz” that packs in “every one of her diverse influences.”The DJ and vocalist’s innovative take on drum ’n’ bass can be heard on her remix of fellow nominee PinkPantheress’ track ‘Nineteen’, which was featured on her ‘To Hell With It’ remix album.
Foals’ ‘Wake Me Up’ has won Best Music Video at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 this evening (March 2).‘Wake Me Up’ beat out music videos by Billie Eilish (‘Happier Than Ever’), Lil Nas X (‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’), Taylor Swift (‘All Too Well – The Short Film’) and Wet Leg (‘Chaise Longue’) for the win.“We just want to say thank you so much to this guy Dave East who directed it, everyone who danced in it and everyone who loves our band,” Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis said on the podium while collecting the award.“Thank you so much,” he added. “We keep on going, keep on going.”Watch the winning video, directed by Dave East, here:‘Wake Me Up’ was the first single from the British rock band’s upcoming seventh studio album ‘Life Is Yours’, which will be their first as a trio and is due for release June 17.
Burna Boy has been honoured at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 with the title of Best Solo Act In The World.The Nigerian star beat Arlo Parks, Billie Eilish, Dave, Little Simz, Pyra, Rina Sawayama, Sam Fender, Tkay Maidza and The Weeknd to pick up the accolade.Aitch and Big Zuu presented the award to Burna Boy, who accepted the trophy virtually. “Thank you guys very much for this.
Little Simz has won Best Solo Act From The UK at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 this evening (March 2).The North London musician was up against Arlo Parks, Dave, Rina Sawayama and Sam Fender in the category. She accepted the award on the podium from Ghetts and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.“Can I just say – after the awful two years we had, you look beautiful tonight!” Khan said to the audience.
Lorde’s ‘Solar Power’ has won Best Song In The World at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.The title track of the New Zealand pop star’s latest album, ‘Solar Power’ beat out nine other nominated songs by the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, The Kid LAROI, BTS and more.The award for Best Song In The World was presented by Natalie Imbruglia and Bastille’s Dan Smith.Lorde accepted the honour in appropriately summery ‘Solar Power’ fashion – via a video filmed from a pool. Watch her full speech above.“Hi, NME! I’ve heard I’ve just been awarded the best song in the world and I’m really grateful for that,” she said.Lorde also gave props to her fellow nominees, particularly Isle of Wight duo Wet Leg: “Big fan of all the songs in this category, especially ‘Chaise Longue’ by Wet Leg.
Table Manners has won Best Podcast at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.The show, hosted by singer Jessie Ware and her mother Lennie, beat out Disgraceland, Grounded With Louis Theroux, Songs To Live By and Wheel Of Misfortune for the win.“Thank you so much,” the Wares said in a statement of their win, who praised the “amazing guests” of Table Manners for the podcast’s success.“This is the first NME award I’ve ever been up for, I’ve only had four fucking albums and it takes my 70-year-old mother,” added Jessie.Launched in 2017 and now in its 13th season, Table Manners becomes the second podcast to snag a win at the NME Awards. The category, introduced in 2020, was last won by George The Poet’s Have You Heard George’s Podcast?.The BandLab NME Awards 2022 returns to the O2 Academy Brixton and is co-hosted by Daisy May Cooper and Lady Leshurr.The ongoing ceremony, which celebrates the most brilliant people in music and pop culture right, saw performances from Sam Fender, Griff and Sigrid and more.
Olivia Rodrigo has won Best New Act In The World Supported By CanO Water at the BandLab NME Awards 2022.The US singer-songwriter came out on top among the international slate of nominees, which included Bad Boy Chiller Crew, BERWYN, Bree Runway, Wet Leg and Yard Act. Dublin band Inhaler, Nigerian singer Tems, King Stingray from Australia and Shye of Singapore were also nominated in the same category.The gong was presented by It’s A Sin actor Nathaniel Curtis and Love Island presenter Laura Whitmore.
Holly Humberstone has won Best Mixtape at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 for her intimate project ‘The Walls Are Way Too Thin’.BERWYN (‘Tape 2/Fomalhaut’), Central Cee (‘Wild West’), FKA twigs (‘Caprisongs’) and PinkPantheress (‘To hell with it’) were also up for this year’s award.“I’m really nervous,” Humberstone said while accepting her Best Mixtape gong, before talking about how NME had an impact on her growing up.“I used to listen to the NME demo CDs with my family when I was a kid,” she went on to say that’s how she “discovered so many of my favorite artists when I was a kid.”She added: “Thank you so much NME.”The Grantham singer-songwriter released ‘The Walls Are Way Too Thin’ last November. In a four-star review, NME said the EP had “a sense of warmth and levity” with “more adventurous” production than Humberstone’s 2020 debut, ‘Falling Asleep At The Wheel’.Speaking to NME at this year’s BRIT Awards red carpet, she opened up about the “scary” task of writing her debut album.“For some reason, the idea of an album is so intense, quite scary, and quite official,” Humberstone said.