Arctic Monkeys have won the Best Video award supported by NME TV at the Shockwaves NME Awards 2008 for the promo for their single �?Teddy Picker’.

The video features a gangland war between criminals and clowns in full costume, along with childhood snaps of the band themselves.

Receiving the award from presenters Lauren Laverne and Chris O’Dowd, the band said: “Thank you very much. Everyone appears to have woken up in the last five minutes, a bit of a hosepipe drought before. The first five minutes reminded me of a school assembly.

“Thanks very much for this, Roman Coppola was the one who directed this, so a big shout out to him.”

The other nominees for the Best Video award were Bloc Party (’Flux’), Justice (’D.A.N.C.E.’), Klaxons (’Golden Skans’) and My Chemical Romance (�?Teenagers’).

For all the awards coverage head to NME.COM/awards now. We have exclusive picture galleries, live webcams, minute-by-minute blogs straight from the ceremony and Big Gig and video interviews with the biggest names at the ceremony.

That’s just the beginning - the ceremony is being broadcast on E4 at 11pm (GMT) tonight (February 28), with highlights following tomorrow (29) on Channel 4 from 11.50pm.

Meanwhile, next week’s issue of NME - on UK newsstands from March 5 - will contain the ultimate coverage, interviews and photos from the 2008 Shockwaves NME Awards.