Muse win Best Live Band at Shockwaves NME Awards

Muse have been named Best Live Band at the 2009 Shockwaves NME Awards tonight (February 25).

The trio picked up their award from black leather-clad presenter Grace Jones at the ceremony at the O2 Academy Brixton.

Drummer Dom Howard said: "Thanks for this, yeah, its a pleasure to be here tonight - Brixton Academy is a great venue for this."

Speaking about the live performances so far, he added: "Elbow and White Lies were great - they normally sound shit at these things but tonight they didn't."

Watch an exclusive interview with the winners now:



The full list of nominees for Best Live Band supported by Red Stripe were:

The Killers
Kings Of Leon
Muse
Oasis
Radiohead

For complete coverage from this year's Shockwaves NME Awards, including news, photo galleries, video interviews and live blogs straight from the ceremony at the O2 Academy Brixton, head to our awards index at NME.COM/awards now.

Plus NME Radio is broadcasting live straight from the awards - tune in via Sky Channel 0184, Virgin Media 975, Freesat 727 or NME.COM/radio. NME TV will also have highlights and interviews from the awards, head to NME.COM/nmetv for the full schedule.

There will also be a highlights show on Channel 4 on Friday (February 27) at 7.30pm (GMT) and on Saturday (28) at 10.55am.

Meanwhile, get this week's issue of NME – on UK newsstands now – for an exclusive covers CD featuring this year's Godlike Geniuses, The Cure. The awards review issue itself will be on the shelves from next Wednesday (March 4), boasting exclusive interviews, photos and more.

The Cure will headline the Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig at the O2 Arena in London on February 26, with NME.COM again bringing you full coverage.