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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, shortly after the founding of the magazine.
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Host: Steve Lamacq and Mary Anne Hobbs [1]. Date: 1st February 2000. Venue: London EC4 Mermaid Theatre.
Host: Peter Kay
Host: Zane Lowe
Host :Bill Bailey
Host: Vernon Kay
Host: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Host: Russell Brand
Host: Lauren Laverne1
The award party took place in indigO2 next to the O2 Arena on 28 February 2008.
Host: Sean Bevan & Jordan Crowley
Among rumours preceding the ceremony, Ray Davies of The Kinks was scheduled to appear alongside British band Babyshambles to perform "You Really Got Me", but this performance has since been cancelled. 3
At the ceremony, Klaxons kicked off proceedings, with other performers including Dizzee Rascal, Gallows who teamed up with Lethal Bizzle, The Cribs along with Johnny Marr, and Kate Nash who performed a song with Billy Bragg, Lightspeed Champion also performed his single "Galaxy of the Lost".
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.
A 14-track CD album titled NME Awards 2008 was given away free with a special souvenir box set of the NME on February 27, 2008.
Host: Jim Jeffries & Har Mar Superstar
The award party took place at the El Rey Theatre on April 23, 2008.
The awards will take place at the Brixton Academy on February 25, 2009.
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Whilst the awards were original intended to be an 'alternative' to the Brit awards, they have received criticism for becoming increasingly commercial. After the 2002 awards an article on telegraph.co.uk reported that the winners of the NME awards "were almost interchangeable" with the winners of the Brit awards and criticised then editor Ben Knowles for what they saw as a hypocritical attack on the commercial nature of the Brit Awards. 4
The 2008 award nominations were criticised in The Guardian for a lack of diversity and not including any female artists.5
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