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Awards
Ivor Novello nominations announced
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 22 April 2009
The nominations for this year’s Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting are out. Leading the pack are Coldplay, Duffy and The Ting Tings, who all receive three nominations, while Elbow are down for two. However, the most noise is being made about The Leisure Society, a largely unknown unsigned band who find themselves up against The Last Shadow Puppets and Elbow in the Best Song Musically & Lyrically category for their song ‘The Last Of The Melting Snow’.
The band’s songwriter, Nick Hemming, who juggles his music career with a job in a fabric factory, told the BBC: “It hadn’t even crossed my mind [to enter the awards] – so I sent it [his entry] in literally a couple of days before the closing date and never thought about it again until a couple of weeks ago. When I got the letter through the door, I thought it was some kind of wind up – in fact even my mum thought it was a hoax”.
However, he added, he did know that the song had something special about it. “As soon as we started playing this one at gigs, we’d get women coming up in tears afterwards”, he said. “You know you’ve done something that’s affecting people and people are taking it to their hearts”.
Here are the nominations in full:
Best Song Musically & Lyrically:
The Last Shadow Puppets – My Mistakes Were Made For You
Elbow – One Day Like This
The Leisure Society – The Last Of The Melting Snow
Best Contemporary Song:
Dizzee Rascal – Dance Wiv Me
Elbow – Grounds For Divorce
The Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name
Best Original Film Score:
David Arnold – Quantum of Solace
Benjamin Wallfisch – The Escapist
Jonny Greenwood – There Will Be Blood
Best Television Soundtrack:
Ben Bartlett – Fiona’s Story
Anne Dudley – Trial and Retribution 2008
Julian Nott – Wallace and Gromit (A Matter of Loaf and Death)
PRS For Music Most Performed Work:
Duffy – Mercy
Gabriella Cilmi – Sweet About Me
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
Best Selling British Song:
Duffy – Mercy
MIA – Paper Planes
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
Album Award:
Duffy – Rockferry
Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
