FasterLouder was amongst the many winners at the Western Australia Music Industry Awards ( WAMis ) that took place last night in Perth.

FasterLouder is pleased as punch to announce that we took home the award for ‘Best Music Website’, a testament to our dedicated team of Perth writers and photographers who are out covering their vibrant local music scene every week.

The other big winners of the night were Karnivool who took out ‘Most Popular Act’ and ‘Most Popular Album’, Soundwave Perth won ‘Most Popular Music Event’, whilst garage rockers The Joe Kings took home the WAMi for ‘Best Newcomwer’.

PUBLIC AWARDS

Most Popular Act: Birds of Tokyo
Most Popular Live Act: Karnivool
Most Popular Music Website: Fasterlouder.com.au
Most Popular Album: Karnivool –Sound Awake
Favourite Newcomer: The Joe Kings
Most Popular Music Venue: Amplifier Bar
Most Popular Single / EP: French Rockets / Injured Ninja – 12” Split + DVD
Most Popular Music Video: Blac Blocs – NVDA
Most Popular Music Event: Soundwave (Perth)

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Most Promising New Act: Emperors
Best Live Sound Engineer: Dave Carter
Best Record Producer / Engineer: Dave Parkin
Indigenous Act of the Year: Yabu Band
Best WA Based Record Label: Good Cop Bad Cop
Media Award – Individual: Dave Cutbush
Media Award – Organisation: RTR FM
Management Award: Steph Edwardes
Golden WAMi: Peter Barr
Best Male Vocalist: Ian Kenny (Birds of Tokyo, Karnivool)
Best Female Vocalist: Abbe May
Best Guitarist: Luke Dux (The Floors, Timothy Nelson & the Infidels, Will Stoker & the Embers)
Best Bassist: Ryan Dux (The Floors, The Kill Devil Hills, Will Stoker and the Embers)
Best Drummer: Adam Weston (Birds of Tokyo)
Best Instrumentalist: Alex Archer (The Kill Devil Hills, Abbe May, Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke)
Best Electronic Producer: Tomás Ford
Best DJ: Charlie Bucket
Best Rock Act: Kill Devil Hills
Best Commercial Pop Act: Eskimo Joe
Best Indie Pop Act: Felicity Groom and the Black Black Smoke
Best Hardcore / Punk Act: Project Mayhem
Best Hard Rock / Metal Act: Eleventh He Reaches London
Best Blues / Roots: Act Abbe May
Best Funk Act: The Brow Horn Orchestra
Best Jazz Act: The Graham Wood Trio
Best Country Music Act: The Fancy Brothers
Best Urban Hip Hop Act: The Typhoons
Best Electronic Act: Tomás Ford
Best World Act: Grace Barbé