Wild Beasts, Royal Blood, FKA twigs among Ivor Novello nominees

Wild Beasts, Royal Blood and FKA twigs are among the artists nominated for this year’s Ivor Novello Awards.

The awards “celebrate, honour and reward excellence in British and Irish songwriting and composing”, and celebrate their 60th Anniversary this year.

Wild Beasts, Royal Blood and Bombay Bicycle Club are all up for Best Album, while Alt-J’s ‘Every Other Freckle’ is up against Clean Bandit’s ‘Rather Be’ and FKA twigs’ ‘Two Weeks’ for Best Contemporary Song.

There are additionally a series of special awards, whose winners will be announced on the night - stuff like ‘Inspiration Award’, ‘Outstanding Song Collection’, and something called the ‘Special Anniversary Award’, which doesn’t at all sound like those ones other award ceremonies *cough* invent to make sure One Direction don’t leave empty-handed.

The Ivors take place on 21st May.

The full list of nominees is:

BEST SONG MUSICALLY AND LYRICALLY
Above The Clouds Of Pompeii

Written by Andrew Davie

Performed by Bear’s Den

Published in the UK by Communion Publishing

I Forget Where We Were

Written and Performed by Ben Howard

Published in the UK by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd

Take Me To Church

Written by Andrew Hozier-Byrne

Performed by Hozier

Published in the UK by Sony/ATV Music Publishing – The Evolving Music Company

BEST CONTEMPORARY SONG
Every Other Freckle

Written by Thomas Green, Joe Newman and Gus Unger-Hamilton

Performed by alt-J

Published in the UK by Kobalt Music Publishing

Rather Be

Written by James Napier and Jack Patterson

Performed by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne

Published in the UK by Universal Music Publishing – Salli Isaak Songs / Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Two Weeks

Written by Tahliah Debrett Barnett and Emile Haynie

Performed by FKA Twigs

Published in the UK by BMG Chrysalis / Universal Music Publishing

PRS FOR MUSIC MOST PERFORMED WORK
Budapest

Written by George Ezra Barnett and Joel Pott

Performed by George Ezra

Published in the UK by BMG Chrysalis

Rather Be

Written by James Napier and Jack Patterson

Performed by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne

Published in the UK by Universal Music Publishing – Salli Isaak Songs / Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Stay With Me

Written by James Napier, William Phillips and Sam Smith

Performed by Sam Smith

Published in the UK by Universal Music Publishing – Salli Isaak Songs – Method Paperwork / Naughty Words Ltd – Stellar Songs Ltd – Sony/ATV Music Publishing

ALBUM AWARD
Present Tense

Written by Thomas Fleming, Ben Little, Christopher Talbot and Hayden Thorpe

Performed by Wild Beasts

Published in the UK by Domino Publishing Company

Royal Blood

Written by Michael Kerr and Ben Thatcher

Performed by Royal Blood

Published in the UK Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd

So Long, See You Tomorrow

Written by Jack Steadman

Performed by Bombay Bicycle Club

Published in the UK by Imagem Music

BEST ORIGINAL FILM SCORE
‘71

Composed by David Holmes

Published in the UK by Universal Music Publishing

Mr. Turner

Composed by Gary Yershon

Published in the UK by Universal Music Publishing

The Boxtrolls

Composed by Dario Marianelli

Published in the UK by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd

BEST TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK
The Honourable Woman

Composed by Natalie Holt and Martin Phipps

Published in the UK by Imagem FTV / Du Vinage Publishing

The Mill – Series 2

Composed by Samuel Sim

Published in the UK by Du Vinage Publishing / Sony/ATV Music Publishing

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Beyond the Pale

Composed by Edmund Butt

Published in the UK by Bucks Music Group / Imagem FTV

Lifetime Achievement
Outstanding Song Collection
PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music
PRS for Music Special International Award
Songwriter of the Year
The Ivors Classical Music Award
The Ivors Inspiration Award
The Ivors Special Anniversary Award