Arctic Monkeys Beat Radiohead To Claim South Bank Prize

For best album...

January 29, 2008 by Jason Gregory | Photo by Shirlaine Forrest

Arctic Monkeys second album ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ has been awarded with the Pop Music prize at the South Bank Awards.

The album held off Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’, which was also nominated for the award, at a ceremony in London today (January 29th).

Control, the film about the life and death of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis, failed to pick up the award for Best Film, however.

Best Film eventually went to This is England, which also beat the Oscar nominated Atonement to claim the prize.

The South Bank Awards will be broadcast on ITV on February 3rd at 10.40pm.

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In Rainbows should have won ofcourse... Favourite Worst Nightmare is fun but In Rainbows is just... classic.
~ by Moozze 1/29/2008 Report
What a pile of rubbish, it should have been Radiohead hands down!!
~ by Mikeee 1/29/2008 Report
Arctic Monkeys deserved to win- best album of 2007.
~ by jake 1/29/2008 Report
No.
~ by Ben 1/29/2008 Report
lol at jake.
~ by james 1/29/2008 Report