Catchy post title, eh? God bless corporate sponsorship. I remember the days when it would have been "Best New Band At The Brats", you know. Anyway.

2008's Shockwaves NME Awards take place tomorrow night, providing a notional alternative to The Brits' cosy choices of who's moving and shaking this music world of ours. And while people are always going to whine about NME's take on things, and the narrow outlook of its readership, it does at least allow the next generation of, well, Brits winners a chance to justify the hype that's been spewed out on their behalf over the last year or so.

Clearly Arctic Monkeys are going to drunkenly stumble off with most of the gongs, so I'm going to look at the nominees for Best New Band supported by BBC Radio 1, previous winners of which have included such established sorts as the aforementioned Monkeys and superstar dullards Coldplay. And don't worry, the terrifyingly dangerous young man above isn't nominated for anything.

Click through for literally everything you need to know about the nominees...

The Enemy

The Enemy are from Coventry and are very popular with those there kids. I saw Jo Whiley interviewing them at home once. They fell out with Alex Zane over something or other. Thus runneth the extent of my knowledge about The Enemy. They're probably going to win, though. This is them doing a song called "Away From Here":

[video: NMETV]

Foals

Foals sing in what may / may not be their natural accents. They are practitioners of something called "math rock", which, let's be honest, does not sound like a whole lot of fun. In fact, it sounds like some kind of prison island where you have to do algebra all day everyday. This time next year Foals will either be in the running for Best Band or crying in their bedrooms after the mother of all backlashes. This is their video for "Balloons":

[video: thisisnotdavema]

Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong

JLATJJJ are led by someone calling himself Joe Lean, who is also called Joe Van Moyland, who is also called Joseph Beaumont. He has appeared in sitcoms and was the drummer in The Pipettes. Lots of teenage girls would like to grab his Jong and give it a good Jing Jang. Not much else is known about this elusive, publicity-shy band. This is the vidiclip for their current tune "Lonely Buoy":

[video: officialjingjangjong]

The Pigeon Detectives

The Pigeon Detectives are a less smelly version of The Fratellis, and write very catchy indie rock songs that people like to jump around to after too many alcoholic beverages. They are quite hard to actively dislike, but manage it nonetheless in the opinion of people who think their unimaginative rock n'roll is rather derivative and not math rock-y enough. You probably know "Romantic Type" by now, but here it is again:

[video: alivalium]

The Wombats

The Wombats are a Liverpudlian band who delighted / enraged people with a song about daring to dance to Joy Division, and played a show in a newsagent's. Then they did a song about moving to New York in order to remedy their sleeping problems; a solution which surely flies in the face of common sense. Unless they did it because they'd given up on sleeping altogether and decided to spend their erstwhile snoozy-time going out and living it up, in which case they went to the right place, but will almost certainly end up with some kind of nasty psychosis. Here's that "Let's Dance To Joy Division" song:

[video: TheWOMBATS]

Now you know everything you need to know about the Best New Band supported by BBC1 category at the NME Awards 2008. If that has got you all excited about the ceremony, make sure you head back to this very website tomorrow night at 11pm, when we'll be nicking TV Scoop's Anna Waits for the evening so that she can liveblog the shit out of it.

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