2013 WAM Song Of The Year nominees announced

Shane | 9 September 2013 | Reply

WAM are proud to announce 80 nominees in 16 categories for the 2013 WAM Song Of The Year. Now in its 24th year, this prestigious songwriting competition celebrates the best of WA’s songwriting talent, offering more than $35,000 in prizes.

With songwriters ranging from WA’s most popular artists to upcoming talents and new discoveries, the wealth of WA’s music talent pool is on display. Winners will be announced at the Awards Night held at the Fly By Night Musicians Club on Wednesday 9 October from 7pm. Hosted by Tomás Ford, the stellar line-up and ticketing details will be announced soon.

The 2013 Grand Prize winner walks away with $3,000 cash, three days recording at Albert Studios in Sydney (engineered by Wayne Connolly), a mentoring session from Albert’s Creative Services Team, a mastering session with James Hewgill Music, 500 CDs pressed by DiskBank, an opportunity for a publishing deal with Perfect Pitch Publishing, a Berklee Music online music course and a RODE microphones package. The winner will also perform at the AGWA Nights finale (opening for Bob Evans) and at the 2014 WAMi Festival happening 6-9 November.

The Mental Health Commission of WA is the competition’s presentation partner and Mentally Healthy category sponsor. This category allows songwriters to share songs dealing with positive messages in relation to mental health. The message this year is ‘Music talks about mental health, so can you’.

Congratulations to the category nominees, listed alphabetically by song title:

Blues & Roots Sponsored by Clancy’s Fish Pub Hell To Pay by The Ghost Hotel High Tide by Jordan McRobbie Lovin In The Fall by Ruby Boots Thirty Five Seconds by Morgan Bain We Are Fools by Riley Pierce	Country Sponsored by Boyup Brook Country Music Club First And Last by Graphic Fiction Heroes Hell To Pay by The Ghost Hotel Stars On His Shoulder by Jonny Taylor [Bunbury] Suffering In Silence by Jonny Taylor [Bunbury] We Are In Love by Courtney Conway
Electronic Sponsored by SAE Institute Innersense by Diger Rokwell Mr. Alpha by Sid Pattni Nourishment by Mathas feat. Abbe May Phantasy by Kucka Wandering Strangers by Black & Blunt	Experimental Sponsored by APRA\|AMCOS Fist Fingers by TheIntensoBand Flux by Kucka Road Movie by Gilded So We Beat On, Boats Against The Current by Cycle~440 Velar by Gilded
Folk Sponsored by Folkworld Inc. Fourteen by Elli Schoen L’il Star by Joni In the Moon Mind The Gap by Rhys Wood No Such Thing As Waste by Formidable Vegetable Sound System Right Brain Holiday by Davey Craddock & The Spectacles	Heavy Sponsored by The Rosemount Hotel Barbiturate Blues by Bayou Frankenstein by Sleepfreak No Entry by Diamond Eye Paper Doll by Diamond Eye Time Bomb by Diamond Eye
Indigenous Sponsored by Nannup Music Festival Friends by Jarred Wall of Jake and the Cowboys Gwungoon by Patrick John Starr [Gascoyne] Little Devils by Clint Bracknell Our Ways Our Stories by Tyson Mowarin [Roebourne] Quicksand by Janine Oxenham [Carnarvon]	Jazz Sponsored by The Ellington Jazz Club & The Perth Jazz Society Avina by Nick Abbey of AbbeylFosterlFalle Betty by Chris Foster of Abbey/Foster/Falle Golden Tree by Rick Webster This Time Last Year by Chris Foster of AbbeylFosterlFalle Try Something by Jeremy Trezona
Mentally Healthy Sponsored by the Mental Health Commission of WA Asleep by Clay Micallef [Denmark] Hurting Birds by Rachel Gorman The Darkness by Cody Sundstrom [Dalwallinu] Sunny Days by Walkabout Boys [Broome] Wintersun by Rachel Gorman	Pop Sponsored by the City of South Perth Cubs by Runner Fly Under The Radar by Stillwater Giants She Don’t Need To Know by China Doll Suit by Boom! Bap! Pow! Temaze by Our Man In Berlin
Regional Sponsored by Hertz Blooming by Tracey Barnett [Bridgetown] Greed by Juerlaine [Margaret River] The Darkness by Codie Sundstrom [Dalwallinu] Three States by Minute 36 [Albany] Victoria by Connor Ryan [Marbelup]	Rock Sponsored by 96FM Body Unbind by Eleventh He Reaches London Born In The 90s by Timothy Nelson & The Infidels Motorolla Borealis by Usurper of Modern Medicine Salem by Apache Single Malt by Minute 36 [Albany]
Schools – 14 Years & Under Sponsored byConcept Music Born To Live by Kristen Brand of Crystal Corner Shop by Ella Edwards-Smith Hey Hey Hey by Claudia Tripp Listen by Emmanuel Navarro aka Enav Sold Dreams by Emmanuel Navarro aka Enav	Schools – 15 to 17 Years Sponsored by Concept Music Could Love by Julia Nicholls Letters by Fellow Or Foe Ocean Throne by Jacob Wylde Sugar Fingers by Evanda Thing of Ours by Julia Nicholls
Urban / Hip Hop Sponsored by Down Under Ground Events Mile High Club by Coin Banks My Heart by Coin Banks Nourishment by Mathas feat. Abbe May One Way Ticket by Lo & Behold Written by FG	World Sponsored by City of Wanneroo Global Beats & Eats ANANTH: The Endless Dance by 7 Beats Dashti by Reza Mirzaei of Daramad Dove Song by Joni In The Moon Krakow by Robert Zielinski Magpie by Phillip Waldron of Daramad