Franz Ferdinand lead Q nominations

Franz Ferdinand are leading this year's Q Awards with four nominations.

The Mercury Music Prize winners are up for best new act and best album, along with best single and video for their hit song Take Me Out.

New York-based band Scissor Sisters are up for three awards, as are The Streets and Muse.

The winners will be announced on 4 October at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London's Park Lane.

Franz Ferdinand will be competing with the likes of Keane, The Zutons, Snow Patrol, half-Swedish half-British combo Razorlight, as well as Maroon 5, The Killers and Kasabian in the best new act category.

Take Me Out is up against Morrissey's Irish Blood, English Heart, The Streets' Dry Your Eyes, Jamelia's See it in a Boys Eyes, Goldie Lookin' Chain's Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do, and This Love from Maroon 5.

Best album nominees include The Libertines and the Scissor Sisters, as well as Keane's Hopes and Fears, Dizzee Rascal's Showtime and The Streets' A Grand Don't Come For Free.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Radiohead, U2, Coldplay and OutKast are up for Best Act in the World Today.

The award was won last year by Radiohead who refused to turn up to the ceremony after the magazine branded them "miserable".

Instead, the band sent a soundless video message with some text declaring: "Radiohead aren't talking to Q".
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