So, music media and PR types galore amassed at The Conway Hall in London yesterday for the annual Record Of The Day Awards for music journalism and publicity.
As previously reported, this year the ROTD Awards included two new categories staged in association with us here at CMU, celebrating the best in student music journalism. There was one for best student music writer and one for best student music photographer. And after much assessing by Team CMU, as well as editors at the NME, Observer Music Monthly and Clash, the overall winners were Rob Mulholland from Smiths magazine at Goldsmiths College in London, who took the best music writer prize, and Tom Clarke from Nerve at Bournemouth University, who won best photographer. Well done both of them
CMU also teamed up with ROTD to launch two new 'student choice' awards. These went to established music media types, but were voted for by members of CMU's network of student correspondents at universities all around the UK. And for those who want to know what our student opinion formers are really digging, the student choice award for best music journalist went to the mighty Peter Robinson, he of Pop Justice etc, while the best music website prize went to a new player in the market, that lovely The Quietus operation. Well done both of them.
Anyway, enough plugging our own categories, let's give a prestigious CMU Daily listing to the other winners at Record Of The Day's big bash, which were as follows...
Best Editor: Caspar Llewellyn Smith - Observer Music Monthly
Live Reviewer Of The Year: Kitty Empire - The Observer
Record Reviewer Of The Year: Alexis Petridis - The Guardian
Breaking Music Writer: Paul Lester
Music Business And Technology Writer Of The Year: Ben Cardew - Music Week
Music Features Writer Of The Year: Simon Cosyns and Jacqui Swift - The Sun, Something for the Weekend
Magazine Of The Year: Word
Best Music Coverage In A Newspaper: The Guardian
Best Podcast: Guardian Music Weekly
Best Digital Publication: NME.com
Best Blog: 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Best in-house PR person: Andy Prevezer at Warner Bros Records
Best in-house PR department: Polydor Records
Best independent PR individual: Nathan Beazer at Dog Day Press
Best independent PR Company: Dog Day Press
Best online PR: Scruffy Bird
Best PR campaign for a breakthrough UK act: Tony Linkin at Coalition PR for Glasvegas
Best PR campaign for an established UK act: Lewis Jamieson at Hall or Nothing PR for Elbow
Best PR Campaign for a breakthrough non-UK act: Ash Collins at Toast PR for MGMT
Best PR campaign for an established non-UK Act: James Hopkins at Columbia Records for Kings of Leon
Outstanding contribution to music photography: Pennie Smith
Outstanding contribution to music journalism: Jon Savage
Outstanding contribution to PR: Barbara Charone - MBC PR