Q Awards 2012 Voting Now Open

On Monday, October 22nd Q ' the UK's leading monthly music magazine ' will once again honour the best music of the last 12 months at one of the most prestigious and star-studded dates on the music calendar, The Q Awards 2012.

Who gets to attend and join the ranks of last year's winners U2, Coldplay, Adele, Noel Gallagher, Gary Barlow, Jessie J, Tinie Tempah, Ed Sheeran, Biffy Clyro and Lana Del Ray in the hallowed Q hall of fame is down to the Great British public.

Voting for the Q Awards 2012, starts on Tuesday 31st July to vote simply click here, the categories are

Best New Act presented by Merc
Best Track
Best Video
Best Album presented by Red Stag by Jim Beam
Best Live Act
Best Solo Artist
Best Act In The World Today

Everyone who votes online will be entered into a competition to win a pair of tickets to attend the event. Entrants must be over 18.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' new single 'Everybody's On The Run' is available now digitally and in stores more details can be found here.

Watch Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds At The Isle Of Wight Festival On Sky Arts

Sky Arts returns as the broadcast partner of the Isle of Wight Festival. This year Sky will increase its commitment to the festival, broadcasting live for 6 hours a day offering Sky customers a weekend packed full of music across Sky Arts 1, Sky 3D and Sky Go, with a best-of-the fest round-up show on Sky 1.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at the festival on June 24th 2012.

This year the festival will be presented by a team of established and familiar music experts and enthusiasts including; Zoe Ball, Jo Whiley, Shaun Keaveny, Tom Ravenscroft, AJ Odudu and Mathew Horne. The team will bring viewers coverage from the main stages as well as interviews backstage and all the gossip from the VIP enclosure.

Sky Arts 1 will be at the heart of the music action, taking in the biggest acts, headlines and longer sets from the Main Stage and Big Top together with the choice to view extra acts and backstage interviews from Sky’s onsite studio via the interactive service. Acts featured at the festival include; Elbow, Example, Tom Petty, Noah & The Whale, Pearl Jam, Biffy Clyro, Tinie Tempah, Jessie J, Labrinth, Madness, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Vaccines and Band of Skulls.

Broadcasting 6 hours a day in 3D on the Sky 3D channel will make this the longest ever non-Sport outside broadcast ever shown on the channel and will bring viewers closer than ever before to the real-life festival experience.

Sky's coverage of the Isle of Wight festival will continue their commitment to innovation and development of their multi-platforms. For the first time, viewers will be able to submit their comments about the live performances and see them featured in-show via an on-screen social media ticker. Two extra feeds will be produced for the red button including a continuously changing 30-minute loop bringing viewers all the best performances from elsewhere on the festival stages.

Sky's partnership with Zeebox will continue with a unique companion second-screen experience where users will be able to instantly download tracks from the performers at the festival as well as enjoy exclusive acoustic performances from some of the weekend's most exciting acts.

Source: skyarts.sky.com

Win A Pair Of Tickets To The Isle Of Wight Festival 2012

Fancy bagging yourself a pair of camping tickets to this year’s Isle of Wight Festival? Thought you might.

This year’s festival – held at Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight on 21st-24th June – will feature performances by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pearl Jam, Elbow, Biffy Clyro, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Vaccines, Tinie Tempah, Jessie J, Example, Noah and The Whale and more...

Click here for more details.

Yet Another Interview From Noel Gallagher At The Brits

Stars including Kylie Minogue, Noel Gallagher and Tinie Tempah have been speaking to the BBC's Lizo Mzimba on the red carpet at the Brit Awards.

Actor and presenter James Corden, Blur's Alex James and singer song-writers Emeli Sande and Ed Sheerin also spoke to Lizo.

Click here to watch the short video.

Noel Gallagher Is One Of The UK's Best Dressed Men

Rapper Tinie Tempah is officially Britain's best-dressed man of 2012, according to a list released by GQ magazine.

Noel Gallagher has been named as the forty second best dressed UK man by GQ magazine.

THE GQ BEST-DRESSED MEN LIST 2012 - TOP 10

1. Tinie Tempah
2. Mario Balotelli
3. Matt Smith
4. Robert Pattinson
5. Andrew Garfield
6. Henry Cavill
7. Idris Elba
8. Christian Bale
9. Sergio Pizzorno
10. Ian Brown

Worst-Dressed

1. Chris Brown
2. Steve Hilton
3. Robbie Savage
4. Dappy (N-Dubz)
5. Mike Jeffries (Abercrombie & Fitch CEO)
6. Country Winston Marshall (Mumford & Sons)
7. Mark Wright (reality TV star)
8. Douglas Alexander (shadow foreign secretary)
9. Jamie Oliver
10. Ollie Locke (reality TV star)

The GQ Best Dressed Men List 2012 appears in the march issue of GQ, out next Thursday.

Noel Gallagher, Coldplay, Tinie Tempah And More At The Q Awards

The Official Charts Company caught up with Noel, Gallagher, Coldplay, Tinie Tempah, and more on the red carpet at Q Awards.