ANARCHIC Burnley band Chumbawamba have been nominated for this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
The group are up for the Best New Artist in a Video gong - despite the fact they have been together for 14 years.
It is just a year since their hit single Tubthumping took the charts by storm on both sides of the Atlantic and firmly established Chumbawamba as a force to be reckoned with.
The glittering MTV awards ceremony will take place at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, September 10.
One of Chumbawamba's Burnley-born members, Danbert Nobacon - real name Nigel Hunter - hit the headlines at last year's Brit Awards ceremony when he soaked Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott with a bucket of ice.
Record company EMI has denied reports that the band are to release a greatest hits album so fans can hear some of their earlier music.
Other nominees in Chumbawamba's category are Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Fastball, Natalie Imbruglia and Mase.
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