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Awards
Scottish Album Of The Year award longlist announced
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 13 April 2012
The longlist for the first Scottish Album Of The Year Award was announced at the Wide Days conference in Edinburgh yesterday. As previously reported, the Mercury-style gong will hand over £20,000 to the Scottish band deemed to have released the best album of 2011, while nine runners-up will receive £1000 each.
Chief Executive of Creative Scotland, which is running the award in partnership with the Scottish Music Industry Association, Andrew Dixon told CMU: “In such a nation of music lovers, it’s no surprise that The Scottish Album Of The Year Award is such an eclectic and entertaining list and brimming with talent. In this ‘Year Of Creative Scotland’, the awards are a brilliant way to raise the profile of our musicians. Congratulations to all of the artists!”
Here’s the longlist in all its glory:
6th Borough Project – One Night In The Borough
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything’s Getting Older
Bwani Junction – Fully Cocked
Chris Stout’s Brazilian Theory – Live In Concert
Conquering Animal Sound – Kammerspiel
FOUND – Factorycraft
Fudge Fingas – Now About How
Happy Particles – Under Sleeping Waves
Jonny – Jonny
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Mungo’s Hi Fi – Forward Ever
Muscles Of Joy – Muscles Of Joy
Remember Remember – The Quickening
Richard Craig – Inward
Rustie – Glass Swords
Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell – Ghosts Outside
Tommy Smith – Karma
Twin Atlantic – Free
We Were Promised Jetpacks – In The Pit Of The Stomach
