WAMi nominees for 2011

Thu 14th Apr, 2011 in Local News

The 2011 WAMi Award nominees have been announced and voting is now open for WA’s most prestigious music industry awards night.

FasterLouder has been nominated for the Most Popular Music Website award. Woo!

Other nominees include Birds of Tokyo, Tame Impala, Pond and the Laneway and Soundwave festivals. Award categories include most popular act, single, video, venue, album,event as well as individual craft categories. Industry voted categories include most promising new act, best individual craft awards, management, media and label awards.

Public voting is open until midday Friday 6th May – VOTE HERE

The 2011 WAMi Festival will run from May 22nd-28th culminating in the industry awards night of nights at the Bakery.

The WAMi presentation will also include the Kiss My Camera award – which was won last year by FasterLouder’s Caminniss.

WAMi nominees for 2011:

Public voted awards

Most Popular Act
Birds of Tokyo
ShockOne
Split Seconds
Tame Impala

Most Popular Live Act
Gyroscope
Split Seconds
Tame Impala
The Joe Kings

Most Popular Music Website
FasterLouder
Life is Noise
Perth Bands
Spaceship News

Most Popular Album
6’s & 7’s, Choose The Sentinel Booze
Birds of Tokyo, Birds of Tokyo
Pond, Frond
Tame Impala, Inner Speaker

Favourite Newcomer
The Growl
Sam Perry
San Cisco
Split Seconds

Most Popular Music Venue
Mojo’s
The Rosemount Hotel
The Bakery
The Bird

Most Popular Music Event
Future Music
In the Pines
Laneway
Soundwave

Most Popular Single / EP
Drapht, Rapunzel
Felicity Groom, Finders & Keepers
Jebediah, She’s Like a Comet
Split Seconds, Split Seconds

Most Popular Music Video
Abbe May,Mammalian Locomotion
Boys! Boys! Boys!, Ticky Ticky Boom
Felicity Groom, Finders & Keepers
The Brow Horn Orchestra, Don’t You Wanna Sing Forever

Craft Awards

Best Live Sound Engineer
Adam Round
Clancy Travers
Ian Stewart
Luke Willott

Best Record Producer/Engineer
Alan Smith
Dave Parkin
Matt Giovannangelo
Rob Agostini

Best Male Vocalist
Dave Mann
Ian Kenny (Birds of Tokyo, Karnivool)
Pat McLaughlin (Sugar Army)
Sean Pollard (Split Seconds)

Best Female Vocalist
Abbe May
Bridget Turner (Boys! Boys! Boys!, Simone
and Girlfunkle)
Felicity Groom
Novac Bull (Boom! Bap! Pow!)

Best Guitarist
Andrew Ryan (Adam Said Galore, Fall
Electric, Felicity Groom)
Drew Goddard (Karnivool)
Kevin Parker (Tame Impala)
Luke Dux (The Floors, Timothy Nelson and
The Infidels, Will Stoker and the Embers)

Best Bassist
Cameron Hines (3 Mile End, Mongrel
Country)
Dominic Pearce (Injured Ninja)
Ian Berney (Sugar Army, Birds of Tokyo)
Rob Stephens (Sons of Rico, Russian
Winters, Simone & Girlfunkle)

Best Drummer
Michael Jelinek (The Silents, The Growl)
Rowan Parrekh (Dilip ‘n the Davs)
Scarlett Stevens (San Cisco)
Todd Pickett (Split Seconds, Blackmilk)

Best Instrumentalist
Glenn Sarangapany (Birds of Tokyo)
Jesse Woodward (Big Old Bears, Lazy
Railway, James Teague, Ruby Boots)
Lyndon Blue (Seams, The Brow Horn
Orchestra)
Tristan Parr (Schvendes, Fall Electric)

Best Electronic Producer
Diger Rokwell
Naik
ShockOne
Tomás Ford

Best DJ
Cut & Paste Soundsystem
Rok Riley
ShockOne
Tomás Ford

Industry voted awards

Most Promising New Act
Split Seconds
Seams
The Growl
Usurper of Modern Medicine

Best Rock Act
Emperors
Sons of Rico
Sugar Army
Tame Impala

Best Hardcore/Punk Act
Chainsaw Hookers
Injured Ninja
Project Mayhem
The Bible Bashers

Best Hardcore/Metal Act
Chaos Divine
Eleventh He Reaches London
Malignant Monster
The Devil Rides Out

Best Funk Act
Boom! Bap! Pow!
Dilip ‘n the Davs
The Brow Horn Orchestra
Pond

Best Urban/Hip Hop Act
Downsyde
Drapht
Mathas
The Brow Horn Orchestra

Best Blues & Roots Act
Abbe May
Dilip ‘n the Davs
Ruby Boots
The Joe Kings

Best Jazz Act
Callum G’Froerer Quartet
Jack Doepel Quartet
Johannes Luebbers Dectet
Mace Francis Orchestra

Best World Act
David Hyams
Grace Barbé
Shangara Jive
Zarm

Best Country Music Act
Country Music Club
Ruby Boots
The Big Old Bears
The Ghost Hotel
The Fancy Brothers

Best Indigenous Act
Bartlett Brothers
John Bennett
Walkabout Boys
Yabu Band

Best Electronic Music Act
Diger Rokwell
Naik
Tim & Jean
Tomás Ford

Best Indie Pop Act
6’s & 7’s
Felicity Groom
Goodnight Tiger
Split Seconds

Best Commercial Pop Act
Boys! Boys! Boys!
Felicity Groom
Simone and Girlfunkle
Tim & Jean

Best WA Based Record Label
Fremantle Records
Jarrah Records
Heartless Robot
Walking Horse Records

Media Award – Individual
Aarom Wilson
Adam Trainer
Mike Wafer
Peter Barr

Media Award – Organisation
Cut & Paste
Drum Media
RTRfm 92.1
X-press Magazine

Management Award
Jacob Snell
Jodie Regan
Luke Rinaldi
Philip Stevens

GOLDEN WAMi
Aarom Wilson
Andrew Ryan
Dave Cutbush
Luke Rinaldi