LONDON, April 19 (Reuters) – Singers Harry Types and Kate Bush are among the many nominees at subsequent month’s Ivors, the annual awards honouring songwriters and display screen composers.
Kate Bush is being recognised for her 1985 tune “Operating Up That Hill” which loved a resurgence in recognition final 12 months because of Netflix present “Stranger Issues”, the UK-based Ivors Academy stated on Tuesday night.
The observe will compete towards Types’ mega hit “As It Was” in essentially the most carried out work class, which additionally contains Glass Animals’ “Warmth Waves” and two songs by hitmaker Ed Sheeran, “Shivers” and “Unhealthy Habits”.
Sheeran gained the class final 12 months with “Unhealthy Habits” and it’s the first time the identical tune has been nominated for the award two years operating.
Types has three nominations general, together with finest tune musically and lyrically for “As It Was” and songwriter of the 12 months alongside his collaborator Child Harpoon.
That class additionally contains singer Florence Welch, Moist Leg duo Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, George Daniel and Matty Healy of pop rock group The 1975 and rapper Central Cee with collaborator Younger Chencs.
Album of the 12 months contenders embrace rock group Arctic Monkeys’ “The Automobile”, Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C.’s “Skinty Fia” and Nigerian-born artist Obongjayar’s “Some Nights I Dream of Doorways”.
Rapper Little Simz’s album “No Thank You” and music collective Sault’s “11” are additionally nominated, each with credit for singer-songwriter Cleo Sol and producer Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cowl. The duo have three nominations general.
Tom Odell’s “Greatest Day of My Life”, Katie Gregson-Macleod’s “advanced”, Sault’s “Stronger” and Florence + the Machine’s “King” full the Greatest Tune Musically and Lyrically class.
“The music nominated for an Ivor Novello this 12 months is testomony to the ability and vary of British and Irish songwriting and display screen composing,” Tom Grey, chair of The Ivors Academy, stated in a press release. “It’s a superlative listing.”
Field workplace hit “Avatar: The Manner of Water” and psychological drama “Do not Fear Darling” are among the many nominees for finest authentic movie rating.
Named after the early twentieth century Welsh composer, actor and entertainer Ivor Novello, the Ivor Awards had been first handed out in 1956. This 12 months’s awards happen on Might 18 in London.
Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian
Modifying by Raissa Kasolowsky
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