Everything Everything and The xx are amongst the acts nominated for this year’s 56th Ivor Novello Awards.
Manchester band Everything Everything are nominated in both the Best Song Musically and Lyrically and Album Award categories, for their 2010 single ‘MY KZ, UR BF‘ and subsequent album ‘Man Alive‘. Also recognised in the Album Award section are Bombay Bicycle Club‘s ‘Flaws‘ and Plan B‘s huge selling ‘The Defamation Of Strickland Banks‘.
Mercury winners The xx are mentioned in the Best Contemporary Song section alongside Tinie Tempah and Katy B, while Plan B’s ‘She Said‘ is up against pop acts Kylie Minogue and Scouting For Girls in the PRS for Music Most Performed Work category.
The awards will be handed out at a ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House on May 19th.
Selected nominees:
Best Song Musically and Lyrically:
Villagers, ‘Becoming a Jackal’, written by O’Brien, published by Domino Publishing Company
Everything Everything, ‘MY KZ, UR BF’, written by Higgs, Pritchard, Robertshaw and Spearman, published by Universal Music Publishing
Foals, ‘Spanish Sahara’, written by Bevan, Congreave, Gervers, Philippakis and Smith, published by Universal Music Publishing
Best Contemporary Song:
The xx, ‘Islands’, written by Croft, Qureshi, Sim and Smith, published by Universal
Katy B, ‘Katy on a Mission’, written by Benga, Katy B and Geeneus, published by EMI
Tinie Tempah, ‘Pass Out’, written by McKenzie, Okogwu and Williams, published by EMI / Stellar Songs Ltd
Album Award:
Bombay Bicycle Club, Flaws, written by Jack Steadman, published by Imagem Music
Everything Everything, Man Alive, written by Higgs, Pritchard, Robertshaw and Spearman, published by Universal
Plan B, The Defamation of Strickland Banks, written by Benjamin Drew, published by Universal
PRS for Music Most Performed Work:
Kylie Minogue, ‘All the Lovers’, written by Jim Eliot and Mima Stilwell, published by Sony / ATV
Plan B, ‘She Said’, written by Appapoulay, Cassell, Drew and Wright-Goss, published by Sony / ATV / Universal
Scouting For Girls, ‘This Ain’t A Love Song’, written by Roy Stride, published by EMI