Arctic Monkeys Bag Eight NME Award Nominations!

Arctic Monkeyslook likely to sweep the board at this year's NME Awards after landing an impressive eight nominations. 

The Sheffield rockers have been named in the Best British Band category for the fifth year running, as well as their latest album David Bowieand the late Lou Reed for the Hero Of The Year gong.

US trio HAIM also secured a cool six nominations, whileMorrisseyeach have three.

Meanwhile, Miley Cyruswill go head-to-head with the likes of Robin Thicke, 1D's Russell Brandfor the Villain Of The Year award.

One Direction also got a mention in the Worst Band category, alongside boyband rivals Muse. 

The NME Awards 2014 are due to take place on February 26 at London's O2 Academy in Brixton.

NME Awards 2014 - Full list of nominations: 

Best British Band

Arctic Monkeys

Foals

Palma Violets

Biffy Clyro

Disclosure

Two Door Cinema Club

 

Best International Band

Haim

Arcade Fire

Queens Of The Stone Age

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Phoenix

Vampire Weekend

 

Best Solo Artist

Lorde

Lily Allen

Jake Bugg

Paul McCartney

Kanye West

David Bowie

 

Best New Band

Drenge

Swim Deep

Chvrches

Jagwar Ma

Wolf Alice

Courtney Barnett

 

Best Live Band

Arctic Monkeys

Palma Violets

Biffy Clyro

Haim

Queens Of The Stone Age

Savages

 

Best Album

Arctic Monkeys - AM

Queens Of The Stone Age - …Like Clockwork

Peace - In Love

Kanye West - Yeezus

Savages - Silence Yourself

Drenge - Drenge

 

Best Track

Arctic Monkeys - 'Do I Wanna Know?'

Lily Allen - 'Hard Out Here'

Disclosure - 'White Noise'

Arcade Fire - 'Reflektor'

Primal Scream - '2013'

Daft Punk - 'Get Lucky'

 

Best Music Video

Arctic Monkeys - 'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?'

Pharrell - 'Happy'

Arcade Fire - 'Reflektor'

Lily Allen - 'Hard Out Here'

Eagulls - 'Nerve Endings'

Haim - 'Falling'

 

Best Festival

Glastonbury

Reading & Leeds

T In The Park

Latitude

Bestival

V

 

Best TV Show

Breaking Bad

Fresh Meat

Sherlock

Game Of Thrones

Misfits

Doctor Who

 

Best Music Film

Muscle Shoals

Made Of Stone

Sound City

The National: Mistaken For Strangers

Good Vibrations

Muse

 

Best Reissue

Nirvana - In Utero: 20th Anniversary Edition

The Clash - Sound System

The Beta Band - The Regal Years: 1997–2004

The Breeders - LSXX (Last Splash 20th Anniversary Edition)

Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition

 

Best Band Blog Or Twitter

Jehnny Beth, Savages

Albert Hammond Jr

Alana Haim, Haim

James Blunt

Theo Hutchcraft, Hurts

Grimes

 

Best Book

Morrissey - Autobiography

Alan McGee - Creation Stories

Bob Stanley - Yeah Yeah Yeah

Mark Lewisohn - The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In

Beck - Song Reader

Richard Hell - I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp

 

Best Small Festival

Rockness

Y Not

Kendall Calling

Swn

Green Man

Festival Number 6

 

Best Fan Community

Hurts

Haim

Arctic Monkeys

Muse

Peace

Morrissey

 

Music Moment Of The Year

Pussy Riot are freed

Arctic Monkeys headline Glastonbury

Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn come together for Teenage Cancer Trust

Rolling Stones headline Glastonbury

Morrissey's autobiography is released

Kanye West brings Jesus impersonator on stage

 

Worst Band

One Direction

The Wanted

The 1975

Imagine Dragons

30 Seconds To Mars

Muse

 

Hero Of The Year

Alex Turner

David Bowie

Este Haim

Russell Brand

Pussy Riot

Lou Reed

 

Villain Of The Year

Miley Cyrus

Robin Thicke

Harry Styles

David Cameron

Vladimir Putin

Russell Brand