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Royal Blood, Alt-J, Hozier and Bombay Bicycle Club are amongst the acts nominated for an Ivor Novello Award.
The awards celebrate their 60th anniversary this year, and aim to reward excellence in British and Irish songwriting and composing. They're judged by "the UK songwriting and composing community."
In the album category, Royal Blood are nominated for their self-titled debut, alongside Bombay Bicycle Club for So Long, See You Tomorrow and Wild Beasts for Present Tense.
Watch the video for Royal Blood 'Figure It Out' below
Meanwhile, Alt-J's 'Every Other Freckle' is nominated in the Best Contemporary Song category, with Clean Bandit's 'Rather Be' and FKA twigs' 'Two Weeks' also nominated.
In the clumsily-named Best Song Musically and Lyrically category, Bear's Den's 'Above The Clouds Of Pompeii' competes with Ben Howard's 'I Forget Where We Were' and Hozier's 'Take Me To Church'.
Perhaps better named the Back-Handed Compliment Award, the PRS for Music Most Performed Work is between George Ezra's 'Budapest', Clean Bandit's 'Rather Be' and Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me'.
The Ivor Novello Awards take place on 21 May at the Grosvenor House, London. See the nominations in full below.
Best Song Musically and Lyrically
Above The Clouds of Pompeii
Written by Andrew Davie
Performed by Bear’s Den
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
