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The Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals have scooped the Best Live Event award at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2008.

Organiser Melvin Benn picked up the award from The Charlatans' frontman Tim Burgess.

The other nominees for the Best Live Event award were Glastonbury, Muse at Wembley Stadium, T In The Park and the V Festival.

For all the awards coverage head to NME.COM/awards now. We have exclusive picture galleries, live webcams, minute-by-minute blogs straight from the ceremony and Big Gig and video interviews with the biggest names at the ceremony.

That's just the beginning - the ceremony is being broadcast on E4 at 11pm (GMT) tonight (February 28), with highlights following tomorrow (29) on Channel 4 from 11.50pm.

Meanwhile, next week's issue of NME - on UK newsstands from March 5 - will contain the ultimate coverage, interviews and photos from the 2008 Shockwaves NME Awards.

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