JimboThe PETA2 Libby Awards 2006
December 1st 2006 00:32
The results for the Peta2 Libby Awards 2006 are in, because of course you were all anxiously waiting. The Libby Awards (short for Liberation) seem to be the most random awards ever, with the categories ranging from "Best Vegan-Friendly Clothing or Accessory Company" to "Best Vegan Skate Shoe." Nevertheless, music wasn't left out. Five of the thirteen available categories had music-related winners, with three being specially dedicated to artists, and one specifically labelled "Most Animal-Friendly Record Label."
Punk, supposedly the anti-social genre, took the show. Winner of the "Most Animal-Friendly Record Label," went to independent punk label Trustkill, whos most successful artist is Bleeding Through. The other two punk-related winnings went to hardcore punk quartet Rise Against, who came away with the award for "Best Animal Rights Song of 2006" after their song Ready to Kill. Current chart-climbers AFI won the award for "Best Veg Band," explaining the evil rabbits on the cover of their latest album, "Decemberunderground."
Punk wasn't the only winner of the day though. Electropoppers Hellogoodbye won the award for "Best Newcomers to peta2" - not sure what that means apart from possibly that they had only recently established their support for animal rights. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor was even honoured with the award for "Best New Fur Foe," an honour only heightened by the appearance of his beaten up face on the award - who doesn't want to kiss that sweet face?
Peta is in no way shy of utilising artist support for their animal rights campaigns, and as such it is no surprise that music was such a big part of this year's Libby Awards. Just head over to their Myspace to see how many bands support them.
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