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Pure Rawk Awards 2012: winners announced

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 13, 2012
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PURE RAWK has issued the following:

Winners, runners up and punters from across the country attended the Pure Rawk Awards ceremony on Friday 9th 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.

The Lost Souls Club and Patchwork Grace complete line up for the Pure Rawk Awards 2012

Posted by tarjavirmakari on February 4, 2012
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PURE RAWK AWARDS has issued the following:

Dark, devious and devilish sounds complete the line up for the Pure Rawk Awards 2012 – the fan-voted awards championing the new, independent and the alternative. The Lost Souls Club (Southampton – pictured above) and Patchwork Grace (Nottingham – pictured below) will play the show along with headliners Obsessive Compulsive plus supports The James Warner Prophecies and Jonny Cola and the A Grades.

Traditionally for the Awards every year, Pure Rawk features an acoustic slot usually filled by a band who by trade dabble in the raw, wild and electric side of music – this year Patchwork Grace will be providing a stripped down version of their material.

Pure Rawk Editor Nix comments “We wanted to have a line up that represents bands across the country, not just London. This will be the 5th Awards we have held and the growth of them seems to have snowballed into a monster that is starting to be recognised nationally. The results are purely the outcome of music fans voting for their favourite new, unsigned or underground acts and we’re so pleased with the quality of entries that have come in. We’re just looking forward to seeing it all come together, who wins and who ends up under the table first”.

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 will be the 3rd year running that the event has ‘sold out’. The shortlist voting is still open at www.purerawkawards.com until Monday 27th February.

About Pure Rawk: Pure Rawk (.com) is an online publication focused on rock, metal, punk and the sub genres within. Whilst they cover larger bands, over time their core ethos hasn’t changed – to support unsigned, independent and new music. Since their appearance on the world wide web in 2006, they have covered many hidden gems who have gone on to achieve great things.

Pure Rawk Awards 2012 voting now open

Posted by tarjavirmakari on October 31, 2011
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Pure Rawk has issued the following:

We are pleased to announce that the 5th Pure Rawk Awards will feature some brand new awards specifically designed to salute the grassroots level of unsigned and new music.

The Pure Rawk Awards 2012 initial voting is now open! Vote at:


www.purerawk.com/awards

This voting is the initial stage whereby you can cast an open vote in each category. This stage ends on 30th December 2011 and will open with a shortlist on Monday 2nd January 2012. The final voting for the shortlist will end on Monday 20th February 2012 where the only place you’ll find out the winners first will be the Awards party.

Editor Nix Crichton comments: “It started as a bit of fun when Pure Rawk first turned up on the web. We had a mere 150 votes. In 2011 we had grown to 11,000+ votes. We believe that good new bands should be given praise for their efforts and if they’ve got something special – they get the recognition they deserve.”

We will announce the venue in the coming months, we’d be delighted if you’d join us for an evening of drinking, dancing and cake.

The 2012 awards will be:

Band of the Year
New Band of the Year
Axe Hero of the Year
Frontperson of the Year
Bassist of the Year
Drummer of the Year
EP/Single of the Year
Album of the Year
Promoter of the Year (for dedication to unsigned and new bands)
Video of the Year
New Breed of the Year ** Pure Rawk contributors only
Underground Record Label of the Year
Underground Photographer of the Year
Local Venue of the Year
DJ of the Year (live and radio) ** New for 2012 **
The John Rayner Award (for outstanding contribution to underground music)