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Awards
GIT Award shortlist announced
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 27 March 2012
The shortlist is out for the GIT Award 2012, the new annual gong being presented by Liverpool-based music blog Getintothis and celebrating new music talent on Merseyside. The overall winner will be declared on 27 Apr.
Coming up, the shortlist, as selected by a panel of national and local journalists and music types from 380 entries, but first a quote from Getintothis writer and GIT Award founder Peter Guy, who tells CMU: “The first GIT Award shortlist highlights the wealth of new musical talent within Merseyside. The artists are ambitious and inventive, emotional and passionate, funny and profound. They evoke a sense of time and place, providing a wonderful snapshot of Merseyside’s varied sonic landscape proving why Liverpool is still the centre of the music universe”.
And the shortlist goes as follows: Bang On, Ex-Easter Island Head, Forest Swords, Loved Ones, Miss Stylie, Mugstar, Outfit, Ninetails, Bill Ryder-Jones, Stealing Sheep, The Tea Street Band and Esco Williams.
