The Museum of Drugs Paraphernalia has nominated the winner of 'Band of The Year 2009', a prestigious annual event with a much coveted title in the music industry.

This year there have been many contenders covering the spectrum of genres from indie and hiphop through to folk and jazz. Included in the shortlist for the title have been artists such as the Silversun Pickups, The Cribs, Miguel Zenon, Bellowhead, The Demon Barbers and the runner up, Jamaican artist Terri Lyn, who was just pipped to the post by this years winners.

The Award For

The Museum Of Drugs Paraphernalia And Related Antiquities

Band of the Year 2009

Goes to

Codeine Velvet Club

Comment from The Curator

2009 has been an exceptional year for music and at the close of the decade we are immensely proud to announce Codeine Velvet Club as the Museum of Drug Paraphernalia and Related Antiquities 'Band of the Year'. This prestigious award typically presents as a huge challenge to our panel of learned scholars and 2009 was no exception. Up until the eleventh hour Jamiacan artist Terri Lyn was set to scoop the award for her ode to the International Monetary Fund, penned 'IMF' from the album Kingston Logic, however the Codeine Velvet Club wrestled the award to become 2009's winners extrordinaire with quite simply and outstanding album of the same name. The band are tipped by the Museum to be the hottest act at the start of the new decade and it is a delight to be able to award the 'The Golden Opium Pipe' to a band that have chosen as part of their name a reference to the collection of alkaloids known as opiates. For those of you not familiar with the music of this band, the Museum urges you to go out and purchase a copy of their debut album.

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