More awards for you, and the nominations for the 2006 Pop Factory Awards were announced in Cardiff yesterday. These, in case you wondered, are the Welsh music awards, with a load of Welsh (or partly Welsh talent) appearing on the shortlists. Charlotte Church and Jem are up for Best Pop Act, Goldie Lookin Chain and the Super Furry Animals are all nominated for Best Album while The Automatic, The Heights and The Poppies are all up for Best New Act. The full list of nominations runs thus:
Best Pop Act: Charlotte Church, Jem, Liberty X
Best Live Act: Bullet For My Valentine, Stereophonics, Feeder
Best New Act: The Automatic, The Heights, The Poppies
Best Welsh Language Act: Ashokan, The Poppies, Sibrydion
Best Album: GLC - Safe As Fuck!, Feeder - Pushing The Senses, Funeral For A Friend - Hours, Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
Best Welsh Band: Lostprophets, Funeral For A Friend, Goldie Lookin Chain, GLC, Stereophonics
Best Music Export: Jem, Lost Prophets, Skindred
Best Live Event: Escape Into The Park, Green Man Festival, Wakestock
Community Music Award: CMW - Community Music Wales, Gwallgofiaid, Sonig
Best Performance on 'The Guest List': Bullet For My Valentine, Elbow, Towers Of London, Turin Brakes
Full info on the awards event, which will take place on 3 Dec, and will be televised on ITV Wales on 6 Dec, is at http://www.thepopfactorymusicawards.com. Press info is from Fifth Element, who are, of course, also the PR contact for the previously reported Smash Hits Poll Winners Party (and not 'Fifth Biz' as I might have written in yesterday's Daily!).