Foundations singer Kate Nash won a gong at last night's NME Awards 2008.

The redhead, a former student at Croydon's Brit School, clinched the award for Best Solo Artist beating Wimbledon-born Jamie T and Amy Winehouse.

Picking up the award from 'Skins' actors Nicholas Hoult and Larissa Wilson, Nash appeared stunned.

"Hi, I'm really genuinely very surprised," she said. "So thanks to NME, mum, dad and my management and Fiction."

Eccentric Might Boosh star Noel Fielding, who studied fine art at Croydon Art College, won the Best Dressed award, for which Nash was also nominated.

Amy Winehouse picked up the Worst Dressed award at the annual bash.