2012-10-23 | Muse dominate Q Awards | Muse were the kings of Q magazine's music awards on Monday after they were named Best Act In The World Today.
Australian pop star Kylie Minogue was on hand to present the honour to the trio at a ceremony in London, where frontman Matt Bellamy credited their tight bond for their enduring success.
Accepting the trophy, Bellamy said, "The key to winning this has been staying together. We're solid as a rock. Thank you."
Rockers Blur also scooped a top prize, seeing off competition from the Stone Roses, The Cribs, Radiohead and Bruce Springsteen to be named Best Live Act, and Bobby Womack won Best Album for The Bravest Man In The Universe.
Keane's "Disconnected" promo was named Best Video, Django Django were crowned the Best New Act, and Scottish singer Emeli Sande was named Best Solo Artist.
The Manic Street Preachers' 1992 debut "Generation Terrorists" was voted Q Classic Album, The Killers (USA)' "Brandon Flowers" was named Q Idol, and former The Smiths star Johnny Marr won the Q Hero award. Rapper Plan B (GBR)'s hit "Ill Manors" was Best Track and Pulp took home the Q Inspiration honour.
R&B legend Dionne Warwick also turned up, despite a recent ankle injury, to collect the Q Classic Song award for "Walk On By". Source: Ananova |
2008-12-01 | Take That steal No.1 spot! | Take That are No.1 in this week's UK singles chart.
The Mancunian quartet's 'Greatest Day', the first single from their new album The Circus, relegated last week's No.1, Beyonce's 'If I Were A Boy', into second place.
Atlantan rapper T.I. is this week's No.3. "Live Your Life", his collaboration with Rihanna, rose one place - knocking Killers (US) "Human" to No.4.
Katy Perry completed this week's Top 5 with "Hot N' Cold".
Elsewhere, The Killers' third studio effort, Day & Age, faught off strong competition from Guns N' Roses much-anticipated Chinese Democracy to claim the UK album chart No.1 spot. Source: Ananova |
2008-11-04 | The Killers preview third album songs | The Killers unveiled a series of new tracks from ther forthcoming album, Day & Age, at the Royal Albert Hall last night (3 November).
With their show being Broadcast live on BBC Radio 1, the Las Vegas band opened their London performance with new single ‘Human’.
New LP tracks ‘Spaceman’ and ‘Losing Touch’, the latter featuring The Killers’ first foray into the use of a live saxophonist, went down a storm with the crowd.
The penultimate new track of the evening - ‘80s-synth heavy ‘Joy Ride’ - was followed by a reinterpretation of Joy Division’s ‘Shadowplay’.
After briefly leaving the stage, the band then returned for an encore featuring new album teaser ‘Neon Tiger’.
Day & Age is due for release on 24 November. Source: Ananova |
2008-06-02 | Paul favours Radiohead | Paul McCartney has singled out Radiohead and The Killers as his favourite current bands.
Talking about his music tastes to the BBC, Paul described Radiohead as "really cool".
He added: "I think they're on it - innovative."
The Live And Let Die singer also pointed out The Wombats, who attended his Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts, and The Zutons.
Both of whom will be joining him in concert for Liverpool's Capital of Culture celebrations. Source: Ananova |
2007-09-13 | Q Awards nominations announced | Killers (US), Kaiser Chiefs and Muse all continued their good year yesterday (September 12) by each bagging three Q Award nominations.
Las Vegas rockers The Killers are up for Best Video, Best Live Act and Best Act In The World where they clash with Muse, Foo Fighters, U2 and Arctic Monkeys.
Muse also compete in the Best Live Act category and for the Best Track gong for their track "Knights Of Cydonia", while Kaisers nabbed nominations for Best Album, Best Video and Best Track - both for the catchy Ruby.
Enemy, Cherry Ghost, Pigeon Detectives, View and Mercury winners Klaxons will fight it out in the Best New Act section, not to be confused with the Best Breakthrough Act, which is contested for by Kate Nash, Mika, Calvin Harris, Jack Penate and Jamie T.
Canadian uber band Arcade Fire were rewarded with two nominations in the Best Album and Best Live Act categories and there were also nods for Lily Allen, Hard-Fi and Manic Street Preachers.
The music magazine awards get handed out on October 8 at London's Grosvenor House Hotel. Source: Ananova |
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