FasterLouder nominated for twoWAMi Awards

Thu 22nd Apr, 2010 in Local News

The Western Australian Music industry Festival opened for 2010 with the nominations for the WAMi Awards being announced tonight at the Velvet Lounge with FasterLouder in the Most Popular Music Website category and the industry voted Media Award.

The WAMi Festival is WA’s premier event for recognising excellence in the music industry, with the majority of the awards voted by key industry players who eat, breathe and excrete music. 2010 is the 18th year the festival has been running and this year over 100 acts will perform over five days, showcasing the cream of the talent in the state this year.

Sugar Army has been nominated in eight categories, Karnivool picked up six between them and Tomas Ford got three. Other FasterLouder favourites to be included in the list are Injured Ninja, French Rockets, Will Stoker, Boys Boys Boys, Project Mayhem, Abbe May, Eleventh He Reaches London, the Devil Rides Out, Tame Impala, The Brow Horn Orchestra, Kill Devil Hills, Mile End, Gyroscope, Birds of Tokyo and The Rocket Room Congratulations to all the nominees!

Check the gig guide for all the details of the festival. Voting is now open HERE and if you’re interstate, you can still vote, you just have to give them your email address.

Here’s the long list…

Most Popular Act
Birds of Tokyo
Gyroscope
Karnivool
Sugar Army

Most Popular Album
Eskimo Joe – Inshalla
John Butler Trio – April Uprising
Karnivool – Sound Awake
Sugar Army – The Parallels Amongst Ourselves

Most Popular Single/EP
Eskimo Joe – Foreign Land
French Rockets / Injured Ninja – 12” Split + DVD
John Butler Trio – One Way Road
Umpire – Streamers

Most Popular Live Act
Boys Boys Boys!
Karnivool
Sugar Army
Tomás Ford

Favourite Newcomer
Emperors
The Jackards
The Joe Kings
Tim and Jean

Most Popular Music Video
Blac Blocs – NVDA
Brash and Sassy – No Milk For You
Injured Ninja – IDDQD
Sugar Army – Tongues in Cheeks

Most Popular Music Website
Fasterlouder.com.au
Perthbands.com
Rtrfm.com.au
Spaceshipnews.com.au

Most Popular Music Venue
Amplifier Bar
Mojos Bar
Rocket Room
Rosemount Hotel

Most Popular Music Event
Big Day Out (Perth)
In the Pines
Soundwave (Perth)
St Jerome’s Laneway Festival (Perth)

Media Award – Organisation
Fasterlouder.com.au
RTR FM
The Drum Media
X-Press Magazine

Best Rock Act
Karnivool
Tame Impala
The Kill Devil Hills
Sugar Army

Best Commercial Pop Act
Boys Boys Boys!
Eskimo Joe
Gyroscope
Tim and Jean

Best Indie Pop Act
6s + 7s
Boys Boys Boys!
Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke
Umpire

Best Hardcore / Punk Act
Break Even
Chainsaw Hookers
Project Mayhem
Extortion

Best Hard Rock / Metal Act
Chaos Divine
Eleventh He Reaches London
The Devil Rides Out
Voyager

Best Blues/Roots Act
Abbe May
Blue Shaddy
Cal Peck and the Tramps
The Kill Devil Hills

Best Funk Act
Boom! Bap! Pow!
Funkalleros
The Brow Horn Orchestra
Sneaky Weasel Gang

Best Electronic Act
Naik
The Transients
Tomás Ford
Voltaire Twins

Most Promising New Act
Boom! Bap! Pow!
Emperors
Goodnight Tiger
The Joe Kings

Best Male Vocalist
Brendon Humphries (The Kill Devil Hills)
Ian Kenny (Birds of Tokyo, Karnivool)
Pat McLaughlin (Sugar Army)
Will Stoker

Best Female Vocalist
Abbe May
Felicity Groom
Hayley Beth
Novac Bull (Boom! Bap! Pow!)

Best Guitarist
Andrew Ryan (Adam Said Galore, Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke, Fall Electric)
Drew Goddard (Karnivool)
Jay Marriott (The Novocaines)
Luke Dux (The Floors, Timothy Nelson and the Infidels, Will Stoker and the Embers)

Best Bassist
Anthonny Jackson (Birds of Tokyo)
Cameron Hines (Mile End/Mongrel Country)
Ian Berney (Sugar Army)
Ryan Dux (The Floors, The Kill Devil Hills,
Will Stoker and the Embers)

Best Drummer
Adam Weston (Birds of Tokyo)
Ben Stacy (Tangled Thoughts of Leaving)
Jamie Sher (Sugar Army)
Matt Maguire (Schvendes, Adam Said Galore)

Best Instrumentalist
Alex Archer (The Kill Devil Hills, Abbe May, Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke)
Chris Cobilis (The Tigers, The Sabre Tooth Tigers, smrts)
Glenn Sarangapany – (Birds of Tokyo)
Tristan Parr (Schvendes, Fall Electric)

Best Electronic Producer
Tomás Ford
Naik
Trilby Temperley (Cloud Kollectiv, She Selexx)
ShockOne

Best Live Sound Engineer
Console
Dave Carter
Ian Stewart
James Newhouse
Rene De Vries

Best Record Producer / Engineer
Al Smith
Dave Parkin
Max Ducker
Rob Agostini

Best WA Based Record Label
Firestarter Music
Good Cop Bad Cop
Jarrah Records
Walking Horse