Blur win "best live event" at NME Shockwaves awards

Damon picked up Blur's award at this year's installment of the oldest recorded awards show in history; the NME Awards. It's a show that dates back to the Jacobean era. King James I presided over the initial ceremony, picking such venerable winners as Ben Jonson for best DVD (for Volpone), and Guy Fawkes for Villain Of The Year. Guy Fawkes also won Best Blog, and Best Live Event for his emotionally charged visit to the gallows.

What other awards show could boast such a lineage? Such a sense of importance, steeped in deep historical tradition? Not the Oscars, and certainly not the BRIT's. Only this show, with such a pedigree, could present the award for best and worst dressed to Lady Gaga. Not to mention the Hottest Woman trophy, presented to Miss Karen of O. In the first Shockwaves NME awards, the same prize went to Frances, Countess of Somerset.

Well done noble winners of 2010. Take pride in your majestic statues, digitus impudicus rendered from a drawing done by James himself circa 1586 on the wall of an outhouse.