#Review By Lou of You Don’t Have to be Mad to Work Here – A Psychiatrist’s Life By Dr. Benji Waterhouse @vintagebooks #DrBenjiWaterhouse #Psychiatrist #NonFiction #Memoir #AutoBiography #MentalHealth

You Don’t Have to be Mad to Work Here:
A Psychiatrist’s Life
By Dr. Benji Waterhouse

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Unlocking the doors of the world of a psychiatrist, this is a fascinating book into a world not everyone has entered for real, but have seen, fictionalised in film and in tv. Find out more in the blurb and what I thought of it in my review below.

You Don't Have to be mad to work here

Blurb

A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles.

A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus.
A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.

Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some of them are his family. One of them is him.

Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality.

Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s messy lives really within medical school textbooks? And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff, hospital beds and any actual cures?

Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and darkly comic medical memoir – from both sides of the doctor’s desk.

Review

Humans are so complex beings and some require the psychiatrist’s chair as it were. The human mind fascinates me and I figured that it would interest other people and we’ve all heard of (and perhaps some of you have used to services of) a psychiatrist and seen films with the psychiatric chair, so I felt it would be interesting to explore a book that’s by a psychiatrist and from his point of view.

You Don’t Have to be Mad to Work Here is a book that I dipped in and out of, quietly contemplating and isn’t one I felt I could race through, but in saying that, it truly is a fascinating read and you do get swept a long a bit. Not having used a psychiatrist myself, I am nonetheless interested in the profession and it’s interesting to hear from both sides of the desk. Dr. Benji Waterhouse seems pretty candid in how and what he writes.

It tells about the NHS crisis and how it impacts this important profession and debunks the myths. Dr. Benji Waterhouse doesn’t claim to be perfect himself and has had his own share of time in the patient’s shoes too, which made for interesting reading.

I feel it would make an interesting documentary series. You get a real sense of what it is like to be in a psychiatrist’s office and the people who require this profession to be in their lives.

The book is heart-wrenching and darkly humorous as well as humane and sympathetic and understanding as he tells about patients who go through the door into the ward.

This is a book I recommend to see what life is really like in the NHS in the mental health profession part of it.

 

#Review By Lou of Will Young’s Light It Up Tour – Touring Now! 5/5 stars @willyoung @willyoungofficial #Music #Gigs #Concerts #UKTour

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Welcome back to touring Will Young! It was well worth the wait, but I hope he tours more now. Find details of the places and dates of the Light It Up tour after my review. The album is also Out Now!

Will Young Album

This was one of the most intimate and relaxed gigs I’ve ever been to and it was an absolutely amazing night at The Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh. He now continues on a UK tour of intimate venues.

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It was Will Young and his keyboard player. The two were relaxed, engaging with the audience through music and Q&A and at times, looked like they were just jamming in their own space. You could tell they were just having so much fun, with smiles on their faces and the talent oozing through the music. Their fun was infectious and carried through the audience, making this a terrific, entertaining night.

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With a mix of new songs from his latest album, Light It Up to creating melodies of well-known songs from previous albums, that joined perfectly well together and audience participation parts to join in some of the singing, this was a perfectly put together gig. He surprised people with a jazzed up version of Leave Right Now and something slightly different with Evergreen, his debut single. It all worked perfectly. This was a gig that had it all from the earliest songs to the latest and left you wanting more.

I feel this is a great way to go with gigs. Intimate venues and reasonably priced tickets and a whole mix of songs and chat. Will Young pulled it off perfectly!
Now, if only he would increase the gig dates to encompass even more places, like Stirling, Fife and other nearby places. I would go to this gig again.
It had one of the best vibes of an intimate gig.

Find album and gig details here: Will Young Webpage
On another note, Will Young wrote a memoir: To Be A Gay Man. You can find details and my review from 2020 here: https://bookmarksandstages.home.blog/2020/10/09/bookreview-of-to-be-a-gay-man-by-will-young-willyoung-penguinrandom-eburypublishing/

wp-17282080761176171555871299431625The support was American, Casey McQuillen, who has a lovely voice and plays both electric and acoustic guitars, playing and singing her own songs as well as popular covers.
Casey McQuillen has been seen on the Kelly Clarkson show and American Pop Idol.

 

#Review of The Outerlands By Eddie Farrington If you like #BenMiller try #TheOuterlands #MiddleGrade #Kidslit #ChildrensBook

The Outerlands
By Eddie Farrington

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Outerlands would suit middle-grade readers who enjoy books by Ben Miller. Thanks to Eddie Farrington, I have had the opportunity to write a review of this adventurous/fantastical book.

The Outerlands

Blurb

Moo doesn’t believe she’s a hero. She doesn’t believe in much anymore, not since mum mysteriously disappeared.

She just wants to be left alone to play Sword Quest on her computer, but when her little brother gets himself kidnapped by the Tooth Fairy and her army of Midnight Fairies, Moo finds herself thrust into a dangerous adventure of her own.

Could her mum and little brother’s disappearances be linked? What in the world is the Tooth Fairy doing with all those teeth anyway? And why is the only person willing to help Moo navigate her way through the magical lands of the Outerlands insisting he is the eighth brother of a very famous seven?

A perilous adventure with earthquakes, a power crazed King, pirates, dragons and even mountains that throw rocks at people awaits, and at the heart of it all is Moo’s desperate search to believe again.

Because with belief Moo has the power to save a world, without it, she will help to destroy it.

Review

Adventurous and mysterious, The Outerlands tells a compelling story with mythical creatures and magical lands, this aside, there is an earthly, grounded element as well and the two are intelligently weaved together.

Moo is a character you can really get into to follow on her adventure. She is the hero of the piece, not that she would see it like that, it isn’t how she views herself. Life is insurmountably hard. Her mum has gone mysteriously missing and her brother gets kidnapped by a tooth-fairy, very quickly it’s easy to really feel for her. The adventure itself is all encompassing and becomes quite the page-turner as you want to know what happens next and where the world she finds herself in leads her.

Moo has quite a lot of pressure on her shoulders. She has to learn to believe as she comes across different creatures or everything will be destroyed. At its core, it’s a powerful message to give children and the parents/teachers who read the book to children, to be a child and allow imagination to grow in whatever direction or essentially childhood diminishes quickly.

The world-building of the fantasy/adventure/mystery book makes this rather fun and will take children’s imaginations to far off lands to meet a host of different characters, even the mountains are a character in themselves.

I recommend this adventurous read!

#Review By Lou of Happy Ever Afters with Sharon Gosling, Heidi Swain and Rebecca Ryan – a panel at Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival@EdWomensFicFest @sharongosling @WriteBecsWrite @Heidi_Swain #TheSecretOrchard #ThePhilosphyOfLove #HomeForChristmas

Happy Ever Afters
Sharon Gosling, Heidi Swain and Rebecca Ryan
Interviewed by Sara-Jade Virtue from publisher, Simon & Schuster

This was a thought-provoking panel with well-crafted questions centred around happy endings and what that meant to them.

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Sharon Gosling, Heidi Swain, Rebecca Ryan

The consensus was ‘Happy Ever Afters‘ involved working through problems/issues so couples can be together and/or for characters to be happy within themselves.

There was much discussion about how women’s fiction includes more communities, friends, family and how they all bring love as well as part of it being happy within yourself and relationships. They seem important messages to me and shows how romance/women’s fiction has evolved.

Sharon Gosling talked about tending to go to dark, imperfect places, with characters working out who they are ie reflecting life, and reaching a state of hope. On her latest book, The Secret Orchard, which is said to be a feel-good book about family, belonging and finding peace, she talked mentioned the history of apple and her fascination by how orchards survive for so long. In-relation of her book, she talked about how the past and future come together in the sisters and relates it cleverly back to the apple trees in the orchard. I haven’t read this book yet, but it sounds good.

I haven’t read The Secret Orchard, but I have read, reviewed and enjoyed:
The Lighthouse Bookshop  and  The Forgotten Garden

Rebecca Ryan, author of Philosophy of Love, is interested in women’s lives. She chose to write about people’s experiences of perhaps not having a traditional ‘happily ever after,’ but one of reflection and figuring life out.
She talked about how readers go into books with expectations. She reckoned there is a need to go into darker themes to see characters heal and how it’s about the journey, hope is happily ever after.
There was much discussion about how pivotal moments like sadness to go along with the romance, it makes it more like real life, which I found pleasing. I think it makes these books relatable on different levels.
Here is my review: The Philosophy of Love
Heidi Swain writes both standalone and series. She has a book published twice a year, one for Summer and another for Christmas. Her latest Summer book was:
The Holiday Escape. See my review below.Home for ChristmasHome For Christmas is her latest festive book (soon I will be reviewing this, so watch out for that). Having heard Heidi Swain talk, read previous Christmas books and reading her latest, she well and truly oozes with Christmas cheer and comfort, even though she has recently had a hard time at this time of year. Her answer was to be indulgent and create a character, a woman who she would love to spend time with and for us all to discover, who loves Christmas.
She reckons Home For Christmas was her favourite so far.Heidi Swain also gave insight in to the fact doesn’t write the same series back to back, which makes it interesting. I, personally quite like this as keeps everything fresh, since I like both her series and standalones.

Heidi Swain has written many books. Here are some reviews of books I’ve read and enjoyed.
The Summer Fair                 That Festive Feeling      The Holiday Escape
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Rebecca Ryan, Sara-Jade Virtue,                Morningside, Edinburgh
Heidi Swain, Sharon Gosling
Church in Morningside

#Review By Lou of Modern Family: Love, Drama and Defying Tradition with Georgina Moore and Melanie Cantor at Women’s Fiction Festival in Edinburgh @EdWomensFicFest @GeorginaMoore @melaniecantor #TheGarnettGirls

Modern Family – Love, Drama and Defying Tradition
Georgina Moore and Melanie Cantor

The Garnett Girls                                The F List

This panel was fascinating, entertaining and such a wonderful hour’s talk of sisters, family and all the different types of relationships in the world. It truly shows that traditional romance has changed and evolved from the days of it being just boy meets girl, it is more about how families relate to each other as well as a budding or growing romance. It truly was an hour’s talk and it felt quick, which is the sign of a good talk, that as well as it captivated me.

Georgina Moore, author of the fabulous The Garnett Girls, lives on a houseboat.
In-terms of fiction, she mentioned enjoying Little Women and The Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

I had the privilege of reviewing her debut novel, The Garnett Girls in hardback. It is now also available in paperback.
Love makes you do things you never knew you were capable of…. It follows Margo, who had a love affair with Richard, but it implodes. Readers also meet her daughters and follow their lives and how they relate to each other.
There are secrets to uncover…
Here is the link to my review of this character led book: The Garnett Girls Review

Georgina Moore has revealed to be writing her second book, which I just know I would like to read and review, based on such a strong debut.

Melanie Cantor is the author of Death and Other Happy Endings and most recently, The F**k It! List. A rare time when you can legitimately swear at a book festival and on my blog. I haven’t read this, but it is said to be an uplifting, laugh out loud read about a woman who is forced to re-evaluate her life at the age of 40.
Melanie Cantor, interestingly talked about empowering women, which Georgina Moore also contributed to and it felt hopeful and uplifting.

Pictures are of me with Georgina Moore, Morningside and church where the festival was held

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#MusicAwards Nominations for #MusicVideoAwards 2024 Ahead of Ceremony on 24th Oct shared on-behalf of Wasted Youth Music @wastedyouthpr #Music

UK MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS 2024: NOMINATIONS REVEALED 
AHEAD OF AWARDS CEREMONY ON OCTOBER 24TH

UK MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS 2024: NOMINATIONS REVEALED 
AHEAD OF AWARDS CEREMONY ON OCTOBER 24TH
 
 
 
CHARLI XCX LEADS THE PACK WHILE JADE, RAYE, ANTSLIVE, FONTAINES D.C., METTE AND CHILDISH GAMBINO ALL SCORE BIG IN THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE PREMIER GLOBAL CELEBRATION OF MUSIC VIDEO CREATIVITY
Charli XCX leads the nominations at this year’s UK Music Video Awards with a suite of attention-grabbing videos. The artist sees her videos for 360, Von Dutch and Guess, her collaboration with Billie Eilish, pick up a total of 7 shortlist places across the music genre and craft categories, the most by any single artist, in the annual celebration of music video creativity.
 
In hot pursuit, Jade wins 5 nominations, 4 for the official music video for Angel Of My Dreams by last year’s Best Director winner Aube Perrie, as well as a nod for the live version helmed by Theo Adams and Sophie Muller. Among the other British artists to make headlines in the shortlists, the ever-charismatic Raye and AntsLive pick up multiple nominations for their music videos and live videos, while Irish rockers Fontaines D.C. win a total of 5 mentions for their innovative videos for Here’s The Thing  and Starburster. They head a list which includes multiple nods for Coldplay, James Blake, The Rolling Stones, The Chemical Brothers, Ezra Collective, IDLES, Mura Masa and Jeshi demonstrating the breadth of music video creativity over the past year.
 
Among the international artists, previous UKMVA multi-nominee Childish Gambino leads the way with 5 nominations and last year’s Video of the Year winner, Mette, scores 4 places for her video for Bet. The video for the collaboration between Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky and Anderson .Paak for the track Gangsta also gains 4 nominations, while Camila Cabello, Jeremy Pope, Justice, KamasiWashington, Rage Against The Machine, Wallace Cleaver and Yseult receive multiple mentions in this year’s list of nominations for over 35 awards, celebrating the best work in music videos in the UK and around the world, and the creative and technical talent behind them. 
 
 
 
The winners at this year’s UKMVAs will be announced at the awards ceremony which takes place at Magazine London on October 24th, when directors and production companies will be celebrated for their outstanding creative work alongside other filmmaking talent in areas including Cinematography, Colour grading, Production Design, Choreography, Styling, Editing, Animation and Visual Effects.
 
Among the directors on this year’s list, Frenchman Aube Perrie leads the pack with a total of 9 nominations for his work with Jade, Fontaines D.C. and South Korean rapper RM, while British talent Aidan Zamiri and Tom Emmerson score multiple mentions for their work with Charli XCX and AntsLive respectively. They face off in the Best Director category against the multi-nominated François Rousselet and American director C Prinz, and previous two-time winner in the category, Tanu Muino. 
 
Among the new directing talent on the list, British director Billy King leads the way with 5 nominations for his work with Konyikeh and AntsLive, closely followed by British brothers The Reids for their videos for James Blake’s Thrown Around and Mura Masa’s Rise, and French duo Sang Froid, recognised for their work with Paris-based rapper Wallace Cleaver. In the Best New Director category, they will contend with Jake Erland, Pedro Takahashi and Zac Dov Wiesel for the title. Other directors with multiple nominations are Otis Dominique for his collaboration with Raye on Genesis, London filmmaker Luna Carmoon for her video for Fontaines D.C.’s Here’s The Thing, and previous Best Director winner Hiro Murai returning to the shortlist with his video for Childish Gambino’s Little Foot Big Foot.
 
This year’s shortlist for the Best Performance in a Video category, designed to spotlight outstanding on-camera performances by artists, actors and ensembles in music videos, this year features stellar turns by AntsLive, Childish Gambino, Jade, Mette, Raye and two young actors portraying A$AP Rocky and Anderson .Paak in François Rousselet’s video for Gangsta.
 
The hotly-contested Best Production Company award, presented in association with Kodak, this year sees a face-off between 6 strong contenders, all renowned for their output of music videos: Riff Raff FIlms, Object & Animal, Pulse Films, Stink Films, DIVISION and Iconoclast.
 
Since its inception in 2008, the UKMVAs has grown into the leading global awards programme for music video creativity, the most important annual event in the calendar for the world of music video production. The global reach of the competition saw entries from 33 different territories. Tickets for the awards show at Magazine, London on October 24th are on sale now at www.ukmva.com.
 
 
UK Music Video Awards 2024 – Nominations 
 
Best Pop Video – UK in association with Cinelab Film & Digital
Charli XCX – 360
Jade – Angel Of My Dreams
Coldplay – feelslikeimfallinginlove 
RAYE – Genesis 
Dua Lipa – Illusion 
Charli XCX – Von Dutch 
 
Best Dance / Electronic Video – UK
Charli XCX ft Billie Eilish – Guess 
James Blake – Playing Robots Into Heaven
Supermodel – Push 
The Chemical Brothers ft Beck – Skipping Like a Stone
Fred again.. & Lil Yachty & Overmono – stayinit 
James Blake – Thrown Around
 
Best R&B / Soul Video – UK
Sampha – Can’t Go Back
Ezra Collective ft Yazmin Lacey – God Gave Me Feet For Dancing
Mabel ft Shygirl – Look At My Body pt ll
Leigh-Anne – My Love
Anaiis – Openhearted
Olivia Dean – Time
 
Best Rock Video – UK
The Rolling Stones – Angry 
IDLES – Dancer 
IDLES – Gift Horse 
Stone – Queen 
Fat Dog – Running 
Fat White Family – Work 
 
Best Alternative Video – UK
The Irrepressibles – Be Wild
Skinny Pelembe – Don’t Be Another
Depeche Mode – People Are Good
The Smile – Wall of Eyes
Metronomy x Naima Bock x Joshua Idehen – With Balance
Joe Armon Jones & Hak Baker – Wrong Side Of Town
 
Best Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – UK
AntsLive – Captain Ants
J Hus – Cream 
Jeshi ft Fredwave, Louis Culture & J Caesar – Disconnect!  
Unknown T ft Loyle Carner – Hocus Pocus
Meekz – Mini Me’s
Bashy – Sweet Boys Turned Sour
 
Best Pop Video – International
Mette – Bet
V – FRI(END)S
Camila Cabello ft Playboi Carti – I Luv It
Miki Matsubara – Mayonaka no Door / Stay With Me
Olivia Rodrigo – Obsessed 
Lisa (from BLACKPINK) – Rockstar 
 
Best Dance / Electronic Video – International
Salvatore Ganacci & Tommy Cash – Ass & Titties
Yseult – Bitch You Could Never
Innellea x Flowdan – Forward Forever
Justice – Generator 
Confidence Man – I Can’t Lose You
Apashe – Revenge Of The Orchestra
 
Best R&B / Soul Video – International
Kamasi Washington ft George Clinton, D Smoke – Get lit
Ravyn Lenae ft Childish Gambino – One Wish
Kamasi Washington – Prologue
Omar Apollo – Spite
Jeremy Pope – U Lost + What I Gotta Do
Moses Sumney – Vintage 
 
Best Rock Video – International
Fontaines D.C. – Here’s The Thing
Childish Gambino – Lithonia
Zach Bryan – Nine Ball
Falling In Reverse ft Tech N9ne – Ronald
Rage Against The Machine – Sleep Now in the Fire
Fontaines D.C. – Starburster
 
Best Alternative Video – International
Hyukoh, Sunset Rollercoaster – Antenna
Nick Leng – Beetlebugs
Judeline – Inri
RM – LOST!
Mitski – My Love Mine All Mine
Jerry Paper – Scenic Route 
 
Best Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – International
Mula B – Blokke Gepikt
Megan Thee Stallion – Cobra
Doja Cat – Demons
Travis Scott ft Playboi Carti – FEIN
Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky, Anderson .Paak – Gangsta
Childish Gambino – Little Foot Big Foot
 
Best Pop / R&B / Soul Video – Newcomer
Rio Rainz – BAD 
Konyikeh – Lie To Me
Matilda Mann – Meet Cute
Hillari – New Beginnings
Moonchild Sanelly – Scrambled Eggs
Joalin – Without You
 
Best Dance / Electronic Video – Newcomer
FEUX – Angel
Siriusmo ft Mr Oizo – Doppelklick
Realo – Money Up Pants Down 
Mura Masa – Rise
Elisa Delage – Shikaponk
Lydsten – You won’t / Burn / _Yourself
 
Best Rock / Alternative Video – Newcomer
Oracle Sisters – Alouette
Sam Akpro – Death by Entertainment
Honeyglaze – Don’t
Humane The Moon ft Jeshi – K9
Elbow – Lovers’ Leap
DEADLETTER – Mere Mortal
 
Best Hip Hop / Grime / Rap Video – Newcomer
Audrey Nuna – Cellulite
John Glacier – Cows Come Home
AntsLive – Cutlery
Yvnnis – Gare du Nord
ONHA – Kodak
Wallace Cleaver – Plus rien n’est grave
 
Best Live Video
Jade – Angel Of My Dreams (live)
Omar Apollo – Dispose of Me
Yard Act – Live From Utopia 
RAYE – Oscar Winning Tears (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
Fred Again.. x Anderson. Paak ft Chika – Places To Be
Washed Out – Waking Up (Eclipse Live Session)
 
Best Special Visual Project
Baloji – Augure: infinite trolling
Childish Gambino – Bando Stone & The New World
Arssalendo – Chiamere Casa Sempre Lo Stesso Posto
Kamasi Washington ft George Clinton, D Smoke – Get Lit
Rage Against The Machine – Sleep Now in the Fire
The Avalanches – Yeah The Boys
 
Best Performance in a Video
Jade – Angel Of My Dreams
Mette – Bet
AntsLive – Captain Ants
Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky, Anderson .Paak – Gangsta
RAYE – Genesis
Childish Gambino – Little Foot Big Foot
 
Best Production Design in a Video
Yseult – Bitch You Could Never
Porter Robinson – Cheerleader
Olly Alexander – Dizzy
Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky, Anderson .Paak – Gangsta
Charli XCX ft Billie Eilish – Guess
RM – LOST!
 
Best Styling in a Video 
Charli XCX – 360
Jade – Angel Of My Dreams
Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky, Anderson .Paak – Gangsta
Fontaines D.C. – Here’s The Thing
Fontaines D.C. – Starburster
Crystal Murray – Starmaniak
 
Best Choreography in a Video
Mette – Bet
Soprano – Facile À Danser
Ezra collective ft Yazmin Lacey – God Gave Me Feet For Dancing
Childish Gambino – Little Foot Big Foot
Molchat Doma – Ty Zhe Ne Znaesh Kto Ya
Jeremy Pope – U Lost + What I Gotta Do
 
Best Cinematography in a Video in association with Harbor
Justice – Generator
RAYE – Genesis
Lil Dicky – HAHAHA
Fontaines D.C. – Here’s The Thing
Alaskan Tapes – Of Woods And Seas
James Blake – Playing Robots Into Heaven
 
Best Cinematography in a Video – Newcomer 
James Massiah – Charlie
Chameleon – I Never Knew You Well
Konikyeh – Lie To Me
Wallace Cleaver – Plus rien n’est grave
Stone – Queen
ĠENN – The Sister Of
 
Best Colour Grading in a Video in association with Studio RM
Charli XCX – 360
Pink – All Out Of Fight
AntsLive – Captain Ants
Friedberg – My Best Friend
Alaskan Tapes – Of Woods And Seas
Cassie Marin – Tanto
 
Best Colour Grading in a Video – Newcomer 
Say Lou Lou – Dust 
Nick Wilson – For You It Was Him
Konyikeh – Lie To Me
Downtown Kayoto – My Best
Wallace Cleaver – Plus rien n’est grave
Nia Archives – Unfinished Business
 
Best Editing in a Video in association with Digital Beauty Work
Jade – Angel Of My Dreams
Hyukoh, Sunset Rollercoaster – Antenna
Jeshi ft Fredwave, Louis Culture & J Caesar – Disconnect!
Camila Cabello ft Playboi Carti – I Luv It
Charli XCX – Von Dutch 
Joe Armon Jones & Hak Baker – Wrong Side Of Town
 
Best Editing in a Video – Newcomer 
John Glacier – Cows Come Home
Yvnnis – Gare du Nord
ONHA – Kodak
21 Savage – Redrum
Mura Masa – Rise
KiLLOWEN x Tommy Villiers – Top Bins
 
Best Visual Effects in a Video
The Rolling Stones – Angry
Mette – Bet
Justice – Generator
RM – LOST!
The Chemical Brothers ft Beck – Skipping Like a Stone
Cassie Marin – Tanto
 
Best Animation in a Video
L’Impératrice – Danza Marilù
Elsa y Elmar – entre las piernas
Coldplay – feelslikeimfallinginlove
HONNE – Girl In The Orchestra
Sad Night Dynamite – Wake Up, Pass Out
Danny Brown – Y.B.P.
 
Best Creative Commissioner 
John Moule
Kat Cattaneo, Sony Music Entertainment UK
Louis Danckwerts, Polydor
Michael Lewin, Sony Music Entertainment UK
Scott Wright, XL Recordings
Theresa Adebiyi, Warner Music UK
 
Best Agent
Alex Brinkman, Object & Animal
Alexa Haywood, FreeAgent UK
Andre Reid-McKinley, REPmedia
Claire Stubbs & Connie Meade, Mouthpiece
Lee Fairweather, Leethal Reppin
Sarah Boardman, Joceline Gabriel & Camille Semprez, HANDS
 
Best Director in association with Electric Theatre Collective
Aidan Zamiri
Aube Perrie
C Prinz
François Rousselet
Tanu Muino
Tom Emmerson
 
Best New Director in association with LEAP 
Billy King
Jake Erland
Pedro Takahashi
Sang Froid
The Reids
Zac Dov Wiesel
 
Best Producer in association with WPA UK
Chris Murdoch
Ernest Bouvier
Manoela Chiabai 
Rowan Mackintosh King
Theo Hue Williams
Two Happy (Joseph J Goldman & Luke Tierney)
 
Best Executive Producer 
Alex Brinkman, Object & Animal
Dom Thomas, Object & Animal
Dominic Mckiernan, Stink Films
Elena Argiros & Rik Green, Pulse Films
Frank Borin & Ivanna Borin, Underwonder Content
Jules de Chateleux, DIVISION
 
Best Production Company in association with Kodak
DIVISION
Iconoclast
Object & Animal
Pulse Films
Riff Raff Films
Stink Films
 
Video of the Year
To be announced on the night