Daft Punk, Ellie Goulding & Robin Thicke Up For Q Awards!

Daft Punk, Ellie Goulding and Robin Thicke are among the big name nominees for The Q Awards 2013!

!Taking place in London on Monday 21st October, Q Magazine’s annual awards ceremony will honour the greatest music of the past year as voted by the readers themselves.

Music legend David Bowie leads the charge with six prestigious nominations, Arctic Monkeys have four and Foals and Daft Punk have three each.

Ellie Goulding is up for two awards – Q Best Track for ‘Burn’ and Q Best Solo artist where she’ll battle it out with Jake Bugg, Laura Marling, John Grant and David Bowie.

She enthused: “It means so much to be nominated for a Q award, I have read and loved Q Magazine for as long as I can remember. It’s an honour to be nominated in these categories with these nominees.”

Other notable nominees include Disclosure and Tom Odell (Q Best New Act), Mumford & Sons (Q Best Live Act), Robin Thicke ft TI and Pharell (Q Best Track for ‘Blurred Lines’) and Glastonbury Festival (Q Best Event).

The event will once again be hosted by Planet Rock DJ Al Murray aka The Pub Landlord who said: “October is the only month with a Q in it! It’s a thrill once more to be hosting what has to be the greatest event in the music calendar. Not that I can remember any of the previous Q Awards that I’ve hosted ”

Voting for The Q Awards 2013 is open right now. CLICK HERE to have your say.

The Q Awards 2013 – Nominations

Q BEST NEW ACT Disclosure Palma Violets Laura Mvula Jagwar Ma TOY Valerie June Tom Odell Jake Bugg ** ** Q BEST TRACK Daft Punk ft Pharrell Williams ‘Get Lucky’ Arctic Monkeys ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ David Bowie ‘Where Are We Now?’ Ellie Goulding ‘Burn’ Robin Thicke ft TI and Pharrell ‘Blurred Lines’ ** ** Q BEST VIDEO Daft Punk ft Pharrell Williams ‘Get Lucky’ David Bowie ‘The Stars (Are Out Tonight)’ Manic Street Preachers ‘Show Me The Wonder’ Vampire Weekend ‘Diane Young’ Beady Eye ‘Shine A Light’ ** ** Q BEST ALBUM presented by Bose David Bowie ‘The Next Day’ Vampire Weekend ‘Modern Vampires Of The City’ Foals ‘Holy Fire’ Daft Punk ‘Random Access Memories’ Biffy Clyro ‘Opposites’

Q BEST LIVE ACT Arctic Monkeys Mumford & Sons Muse The Stone Roses Foals ** ** Q BEST SOLO ARTIST presented by Citroen David Bowie Jake Bugg Laura Marling Ellie Goulding John Grant ** ** Q BEST ACT IN THE WORLD TODAY David Bowie Vampire Weekend Arctic Monkeys Biffy Clyro Foals ** ** Q BEST EVENT Glastonbury David Bowie at the V&A Kraftwerk at Tate Modern The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park Latitude The Killers at Wembley Stadium & The Garage