This year’s Barnsley Music Awards will take place on Friday 4th December at the Barnsley Rock & Blues Venues (last year’s winner of favourite live music venue). Voting for the awards opened on 2nd November. You can cast your vote by visiting http://goo.gl/forms/ZN7ywRC80T.
To celebrate the occasion, I thought that I would take the opportunity to look back at my own musical highlights of 2015.
In my first of three articles, I looked at my favourite New Song, Album, EP and Video of 2015. You can view those here. In this article, I will have a look at my favourite Group, Solo Artist, Live Act and New Act.
Each list will be topped by my overall favourite, alongwith the rest of my top five, followed by the rest of the shortlist in alphabetical order.
~ FAVOURITE GROUP/BAND/DUO ~
THE BLACK LAMPS
AZTEC DOLL
BRUJA
THE HURRIERS
PUSHER
Black Vines
Cavorts
The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican
Four Authors
Gilmore & Roberts
Ginger Tom
Hands off Gretel
Heavy Suns
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Mark Jackson’s Criminal Waste of Talent
Parson’s Lot
Servers
System of Hate
Taxi For Bob
The Hearts
The Vegas Six
~ FAVOURITE SOLO ARTIST ~
DEL SCOTT MILLER
DAVE BURLAND
GEORGINA GILMARTIN
LAURA KELLY
RICHARD KITSON
Avishek Choudhury
Toby Burton
Feral Indie
Harriet Grant
Nathan Kozma
New Party Army
~ FAVOURITE LIVE ACT ~
CAVORTS
THE BAR-STEWARD SONS OF VAL DOONICAN
THE BLACK LAMPS
MARK JACKSON’S CRIMINAL WASTE OF TALENT
PARSON’S LOT
Aztec Doll
Bruja
Del Scott Miller
Gilmore & Roberts
Hands Off Gretel
Laura Kelly
Pusher
Redmist Destruction
Richard Kitson Blues Trio
Servers
System of Hate
Taxi For Bob
The Black Vines
The Hurriers
The Vegas Six
~ FAVOURITE NEW ACT ~
THE VEGAS SIX
COOPER BLOOD BAND
FOUR AUTHORS
HANDS OFF GRETEL
[RETREAT]
Black China Dolls
Danny Smart & the Northern Sons
Its Own Machine
Pavilion
To cast your votes in the official Barnsley Music Awards, visit http://goo.gl/forms/ZN7ywRC80T To vote, you have to have a google account, which is free. Voting closes Monday 30th November at 5pm.
The Barnsley Music Awards Ceremony takes place on Friday 4th December at Barnsley Rock & Blues Venue at 8pm.
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