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It has been a significant year for musical creativity and diversity on Merseyside and one standout act from the region will be recognised this coming Friday when the winner of the inaugural GIT Award 2012 will be revealed.
On Friday, 27th April the winner of The GIT Award 2012 will be announced at Leaf on Bold Street, where each of the shortlisted artists is expected to perform while being filmed exclusively by Mocha and Liverpool Football Club TV.
Journalist and Goldblade musician John Robb will host the evening.
Since its launch at Liverpool Music Week’s closing party in November 2011 up until the closing date at the end of February 2012, the GIT Award received more than 380 entries.
The shortlist was then decided by a judging panel comprising top names from Liverpool Football Club, NME, Vice Magazine, The Quietus and The Guardian alongside the cornerstones of the region's music scene – Getintothis, Bido Lito Magazine, Waxxx and EVOL. Now six months since its launch the time has come for the winner to be announced.
Ten of the 12 nominees will be performing on the night with exclusive new music and videos accompanying their display.
Accompanying them will be a host of DJs including, Chew Disco (Emma Obong and Khalil West), Daniel Hunt (Ladytron) and Absense (Waxxx resident DJ). Milk Productions, on Bold Street, are also making a commemorative memento for each of the nominees.
The GIT Award, named after Liverpool music blog Getintothis and dubbed by the national music press as the Scouse Mercury Prize, celebrates the finest new recordings in the last 12 months on Merseyside.
GIT Award founder and chair of judges, Peter Guy, said: “The first GIT Award shortlist highlights the wealth of new musical talent within Merseyside.
"The artists are ambitious and inventive, emotional and passionate, funny and profound.
"They evoke a sense of time and place, providing a wonderful snapshot of Merseyside’s varied sonic landscape proving why Liverpool is still the centre of the music universe.”
The winner will receive an incredible prize which includes recording time at Liverpool’s Sandhills Studio and a showcase at this year’s Liverpool Sound City and Liverpool Music Week.
The winners will also play a gig at Vice Magazine’s London bar The Old Blue Last, as well as having a promo shot by Virgin Media Shorts filmmaker of the Year nominee Ian Gamester to be screened at FACT, the city’s art house cinema and creative technologies centre.
The designer of the award itself is Sam Venables of The Royal Standard - an artist-led gallery, studios and social workspace in Liverpool. You can view Sam’s fantastic work over at www.the-royal-standard.com/artists/sam-venables/
Matt Wilkinson, NME radar editor, said: “I’m really excited to be on the panel for the GIT Award.
"Liverpool and its surrounding areas are offering up some of the most exciting and diverse music around at present. I can't wait to get stuck into the shortlist and find a winner.”
The GIT Award 2012 shortlist is:
Bang On
Ex-Easter Island Head
Forest Swords
Loved Ones
Miss Stylie
Mugstar
Outfit
Ninetails
Bill Ryder-Jones
Stealing Sheep
The Tea Street Band
Esco Williams
