Alex Turner is up for four awards in this year’s Mojo Honours List.
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The musician’s band Arctic Monkeys and his side project The Last Shadow Puppets are both nominated for two awards respectively.
Arctic Monkeys received the nod for Best Live Act and Best Album for Favourite Worst Nightmare, while The Last Shadow Puppets are nominated for Best Breakthrough and Song of the Year with single The Age Of The Understatement.
New British singing sensation Duffy will compete with Turner in three categories. The Welsh newcomer is up for Best Breakthrough and Song of the Year for Mercy, while debut LP Rockferry has been nominated for Best Album.
The other nominees for Best Album are Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds for Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!, Radiohead’s In Rainbows and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand
The Mojo Honours List – held by British music magazine Mojo – takes place on June 16, where in addition to the announced categories, a number of merit awards will also be given.
The Mojo Honours List 2008:
Breakthrough Act
Duffy
Foals
Pete Molinari
The Last Shadow Puppets
Bon Iver
Best Album
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Duffy – Rockferry
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
Compilation Of The Year
Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan
The Very Best Of Ethiopiques: Hypnotic Grooves From The Legendary Series
Cries From The Midnight Circus: The Ladbroke Grove Scene 1968-1971
From The Motion Picture Control
Juno OST
Song Of the Year
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of The Understatement
Richard Hawley – Tonight The Streets Are Ours
Duffy – Mercy
Best Live Act
Arctic Monkeys
Rufus Wainwright
Seasick Steve
Led Zeppelin
Neil Young
