More superstars sign up for MTV Europe Awards in Liverpool

Oct 6 2008 by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle

MTV Networks International announced a further four artists that will perform live at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards in Liverpool next month.

Pink, Duffy, The Killers and Kid Rock will join Beyoncé with more performing artists being announced in the next few weeks.

The 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards will be broadcast live from the Liverpool Echo Arena, Liverpool – European Capital of Culture - on Thursday, November 6 and are sponsored by edc by Esprit, Sony Ericsson and Dell.

“The line-up for the 15th MTV Europe Music Awards is shaping up to be one of the finest in the history of the awards,” said Richard Godfrey, Senior Vice President, Music and Production & Executive Producer, MTV Europe Music Awards.

“With these four artists joining the line-up the show promises to be a show-stopping night of great live performances.”

Fresh from her stand-out performance of her new single So What at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, Pink returns to the MTV Europe Music Awards for the third time. Having presented an award in 2001, she returned to perform successively in 2002 and 2003 she is nominated in Most Addictive Track for the same single.

Welsh soul-singer Duffy makes her MTV Europe Music Awards debut and is nominated in three categories. As well as being nominated for Album of the Year, Addictive Track and New Act, Duffy is also currently a nominee in the New UK & Ireland Act, sponsored by Virgin Trains, alongside Leona Lewis.

If Duffy is successful in the New UK & Ireland Act she will lead with the most nominations in this year’s awards.

The Killers will be taking to the stage in Liverpool following their debut at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards in Copenhagen. Having performed to an audience of over 7,500 people in the city’s main Square Rådhuspladsen the band went on to win Best Rock Award.

Kid Rock also makes his MTV Europe Music Award debut and is nominated for his most recent single All Summer Long – one of the biggest selling singles across Europe this summer.

In 2007 the MTV Europe Music Awards - broadcast on 19 channels across Europe as well as across the US and Asia - reached a total television audience of over 30 million people.