I agree, there is no way on God's Earth that Mika will even be nominated for an NME Award, or even considered fro nomination, unless they have a Biggest Ar*****e of 2007 award this year.
The NME sums up everything I hate about music snobbery in this country at the moment.
They indeed do not feature Mika at all as he is considered too mainstream and anyway you can just imagine what NME journalists think of him, can't you.
So please everyone don't get too worked up about this. He isn't going to be nominated, it will not affect his Brixton gig at all and I know where I'd rather be on Feb 28th.