FasterLouder wins most popularwebsite WAMi

Sun 29th May, 2011 in Local News

The 2011 WAMis concluded with a rowdy awards ceremony in Perth last night, dominated by newcomers Split Seconds who took home four awards – or about 10 kg worth of WAMington.

FasterLouder was voted most popular website in the WAMi 2011 Awards for the third year running – so a big thank you for all your votes and contributions, FasterLouder can only ever be as good as its people, and our people are awesome.

Other winners included Tame Impala, Birds of Tokyo, The Brow Horn Orchestra, the Rosemount Hotel and the Laneway Festival. The Best Commercial Pop category tied for first place for the first time in WAMi history. Felicity Groom and Tim & Jean shared the honours (and the delicious award ).

The night was presided over by Dylan Lewis and triple j’s Dom Alessio who filled the spaces between awards with many a bad pun. A great deal of the bands who won on the night expressed their genuine surprise in having taken out their categories, particularly Injured Ninja who took the opportunity to recommend some of the “real punk bands” Perth has to offer such as Brown and Frozen Ocean.

The Bakery was packed full of Perth’s music industry representatives all chatting amiably with one another and demonstrating the truth of Alessio’s observation that few people in the Perth music world do just one thing; most play multiple instruments in different bands as well as managing another band or booking for venues.

The folks at WAM always do an amazing job with the festival as well as during the rest of the year supporting the local industry with competitions, resources and assistance for bands to learn about how to get themselves out there, this year’s celebration was one they should be proud of.

PUBLIC VOTED AWARDS

Most Popular Act – Tame Impala
Most Popular Live Act – Tame Impala
Most Popular Website – FasterLouder
Most Popular Album – Birds of Tokyo
Favourite Newcomer – Split Seconds
Most Popular Music Venue – The Rosemount Hotel
Most Popular Music Event – St Jeromes Laneway
Most Popular Single / EP – Jebediah, She’s Like a Comet
Most Popular Music Video – The Brow Horn Orchestra, Don’t You Wanna Sing Forever

CRAFT AWARDS

Best Live Sound Engineer – Luke Willott
Best Record Producer / Engineer – Dave Parkin
Best Male Vocalist – Sean Pollard (Split Seconds)
Best Female Vocalist – Abbe May
Best Guitarist – Kevin Parker (Tame Impala)
Best Bassist – Rob Stephens (Sons of Rico, Russian Winters, Simone & Girlfunkle)
Best Drummer – Todd Pickett (Kill Devil Hills, Davey Craddock and the Spectacles)
Best Instrumentalist – Glen Sarangapany (Birds of Tokyo, Sons of Rico)
Best Electronic Producer – Tomás Ford
Best DJ – Rok Riley
Most Promising New Act – Split Seconds
Best Rock Act – Tame Impala
Best Hardcore / Punk Act – Injured Ninja
Best Hard Rock / Metal Act – Eleventh He Reaches London
Best Funk Act – Boom! Bap! Pow!
Best Urban / Hip Hop Act – Drapht
Best Blues & Roots Act – Abby May
Best Jazz Act – Jack Doepel Quartet
Best World Act – Grace Barbé
Best Country Music Act – Ruby Boots
Best Indigenous Act – Yabu Band
Best Electronic Music Act – Tim & Jean
Best Indie Pop Act – Split Seconds
Best Commercial Pop NOTE: First category tie in WAMi Award history Felicity Groom / Tim & Jean
Best WA Based Record Label – Jarrah Records
Media Award – Individual – Aarom Wilson
Media Award – Organisation – RTRfm 92.1
Management Award – Luke Rinaldi

GOLDEN WAMi – Luke Rinaldi

A FULL REVIEW AND PHOTOS FROM THE AWARDS WILL BE LIVE TOMORROW!