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At 2008 NME Awards A'Monks Win Big, Vampire Weekend Injured

The Kooks Young Folks
Last night the New Music Express held their annual Shockwaves Awards and gave repeated thumbs up to the usual suspects like Arctic Monkeys (three times over: Best Band, Track, Video), the Killers (Best International Band), Klaxons (Best Album), and Kate Nash (Best Solo Artist), while naming George Bush the Villain Of The Year. Which of course begs the question: Who won Hero of the Year? You guessed it! Pete Doherty. OK you didn't guess it. But it becomes much more reasonable when you find out they forgot the "in," and that Doherty was just getting praise for having [...]