NME Awards - just ever so slightly chaotic

Last week's NME Awards were sooooooo much better than The Brits (the latter had three more Osbournes than was strictly necessary, I felt). But the NMEs could have been a bit better organised. I’ve just found out that poppet journalist Paul Stokes couldn’t get access to the NME Big Gig at the O2 straight afterwards (starred Manics, Kaisers, Klaxons) and was part of the Awards hoopla. Paul Stokes is, er, the NME’s news editor.