Pure Rawk Awards 2012: winners announced

PURE RAWK has issued the following:

Winners, runners up and punters from across the country attended the Pure Rawk Awards ceremony on Friday 9^th March at the Boston Music Room (London) in to celebrate a night of success for underground, alternative and new music.

Manchester’s Obsessive Compulsive swept the board on the night winning every category they were nominated in and picked up the Band of the Year, Video of the Year (for their video “Man Vs Machine”), Frontperson of the Year and Axe Hero of the Year.

London’sJonny Cola and the A Grades picked up the New Breed Award as voted for by Pure Rawk contributors and editorial. Pure Rawk’s Dave Ashworth comments: “We here at Pure Rawk HQ have high hopes for these little upstarts – it’s perhaps a bit of a tangent to what you’d normally expect from us, but we’ve dragged some of the most unlikely folk to see them these last few months, and they’ve all been converted. Classic British Pop with killer guitar riffs, this is a rarefied breed of glam pop that many thought was extinct, but their material breathes life and vitality like America never happened.”

The winners were as follows:

Underground Photographer of the Year: Don Jackson-Wyatt
Local Venue of the Year: Nambucca (London)
Underground Record Label of the Year: Rocksector
Promoter of the Year:Emma Scott (Emma Scott Presents)
DJ of the Year: Big Jim (The Rock Show)
The John Rayner Award: Darren Tite
Video of the Year: Obsessive Compulsive (Man Vs Machine)
Drummer of the Year: Chris Rivers (Heaven’s Basement)
Bassist of the Year: Pete Hulme (Eureka Machines)
Axe Hero of the Year: Giz (Obsessive Compulsive)
Frontperson of the Year: Kelii Compulsive (Obsessive Compulsive)
EP/Single of the Year: The Great Malarkey – “Merry Profits”
Album of the Year: Eureka Machines – “Champion The Underdog”
New Breed: Jonny Cola and the A Grades
New Band of the Year: Mordecai
Band of the Year: Obsessive Compulsive

Winners in picture:

Check them all out online at www.facebook.com/purerawkawards. Trudi Knight and Ila Desai did a fab job capturing the daft and the decadent of the night.

The 5th Pure Rawk Awards featured some brand new awards specifically designed to salute the grassroots level of unsigned, independent and new music. Live music from the night came from Obsessive Compulsive, The Lost Souls Club, Jonny Cola and the A Grades, The James Warner Prophecies and Shush (who performed an exclusive acoustic set).

Tickets for the Awards were offered for free for the first time due to the commitment of major sponsorship and they were snapped up within a week by punters forcing Pure Rawk to create a waiting list for any returned tickets. The 2012 Awards was the 3rd year running that the event has ‘sold out’.

The Pure Rawk Awards 2012 was sponsored by Jagermeister, Bloodstock Open Air Festival, Big Green Coach, Olympus, InTuneGP, Free Running Films.