The NMG Awards judges met at the Cambridge Junction on Thursday, 26th September to complete the short list process. From the 63 artists included on the short list they had to whittle those down to a top four in each category.
The judging criteria includes the artists recorded music (each artist on the long list was asked to submit one track representative of their sound), connection with fans, social media presence, live performance ability, success to date and potential to achieve in the future.
All artists who have made the nominations short list are automatically invited for free to the NMG Awards ceremony on Thursday, 24th October and stand a chance of winning on the night. We’d love as many artists as possible to attend but regrettably can’t offer free entry to everyone so we will be offering discounted tickets to all those artists who don’t make the next stage, these will be priced at £2 per person.
Tickets for the event will be available to the public priced £5.
We are really pleased with the response and support the NMG Awards have received from the artists involved and the wider music community. The general standard on all the artists on the long list was very high and so it was very difficult to narrow the categories down.
All the artists in the original long list go forward to be nominated in the Audience Choice category.
Announcements will be made on our social network platforms about guests who will be presenting the awards on the night as well as artists selected to perform live.
The Short List
There are twelve categories including one which includes all nominees listed below and will be open to voting by the public
Best Male Solo Artist
Just William & The Outlaws
Lewis Mokler
Tom Copson
Zak Thomas
Best Female Solo Artist
Aliceband
Annie Dressner
Melody Causton
Shannon Hope
Best Duo
Frett
Music and Spies
The Cogo
The Floe
Best Folk / Roots Artist
CC Smugglers
Fred’s House
The Facade
The Willows
Best Indie Group
Chasing Outlaws
From The Sticks
Holden Girls
Treehead
Best Pop Artist
Glenn Godfrey
Motor Tapes
The Hot Lights
Xsara
Best Rock Group
Home Salvation
Horse Party
The Simpletone
Violet Bones
Best Alternative Group
Keltrix
Lucid
Skimble Shanks
Tiger Blue
Best Urban / Dance Artist
Azubuike
Gary Hellman
Goldstar
Mirror Signal
Best Group – 18 and under
28 Boulevard
King Blood
Should Be Kings
Three Patch Problem
Best Solo Artist – 18 and under
Grace Sarah
Harry Seaton
Lost Boys Club
Tilly Dalglish
Audience Choice
Voting for the Audience Choice award will take place on the NMG Awards Facebook page. Voting will open on Thursday, 10th October and run for two weeks.
28 Boulevard
Alice Rayner
Aliceband
Annie Dressner
Autumn McDonald
Azubuike
B-Sydes
Bemuzic
Ben McCarthy
Blonde Louis
Boiling Point
CC Smugglers
Chasing Outlaws
Christian Smith
Dan Wilde
Dropout Dan
Elliot Porter & The Missing Pieces
Flaming June
Flux32
Forest
Fred’s House
Frett
From The Sticks
Fuzzy Lights
Gary Hellman
Glenn Godfrey
Go.Fly.Win
Goldstar
Grace Sarah
Harry Seaton
Holden Girls
Holly Carter
Home Salvation
Honeywitch
Horse Party
Johnno Casson
Jon Hart Band
Just William & The Outlaws
Keltrix
Keys
King Blood
Lewis Mokler
Lil Trizzle
Lost Boys Club
Lost Lungs
Lucid
Melody Causton
Mirror Signal
Motor Tapes
Music and Spies
Ollie and Will
Pablo Zero
Radar
Sarah Louise
Scenario
Shannon Hope
Should Be Kings
Simon Panrucker
Skimble Shanks
Smoken Joes
Soft Like Camel
Sound Menagerie
The Cogo
The Facade
The Floe
The Hot Lights
The Simpletone
The Varsity
The Vitamins
The Willows
Three Patch Problem
Tiger Blue
Tilly Dalglish
Tom Copson
Treehead
Two Intents
Violet Bones
Xsara
Zak Thomas