Liverpool Acoustic – Live Music Night of the Year 2013

Last night Liverpool Acoustic’s Graham Holland and Stuart Todd attended the awards ceremony at St George’s Hall for the Liverpool Music Awards 2013, and walked away with the award for Live Music Night of the Year for the second year running.

The award was presented by Paul Rutherford (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) who flew in from New Zealand to attend the event, and Steph Corcoran from the category’s sponsor Hotel Indigo.

We would like to thank everyone who has supported us over the past year, and everyone who voted for us – your support made all the difference.

We must thank:-

• Ken Martin, the owner of the View Two Gallery, the best acoustic venue in the city
• Roger Tolley, head of our door team, and our biggest supporter
• Nicola and Rich Denton (Liverpool Live), Peter Guy (Getintothis), Jade Wright (Liverpool Echo), Roger Hill and Dave Monks (BBC Radio Merseyside)
• Billy Butler (BBC Radio Merseyside) for featuring lots of our musicians on his shows and for helping us support the young musicians coming through
• All the fantastic musicians who’ve played for us over the past year
• Anyone who’s paid on the door or bought a ticket in advance and in so doing has helped support live, original music in the city.

Here is the full list of winners:-

• THE MICHAEL MOLLOY YOUTH MUSIC AWARD – Katie Nicholas
• MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR – Esco Williams
• FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR – Natalie McCool
• BAND OF THE YEAR – The Hummingbirds
• DJ OF THE YEAR – Anton Powers
• SINGLE OF THE YEAR – Rise & Fall – Michael Molloy &  Alex Evans
• ALBUM OF THE YEAR  – Don’t Forget Who You Are – Miles Kane
• ONE TO WATCH AWARD – Lumin Bells
• PRODUCER OF THE YEAR – Ian Broudie
• MUSIC BUSINESS OF THE YEAR – Elevator Studios
• LIVE MUSIC NIGHT OF THE YEAR – Liverpool Acoustic
• LIVE MUSIC VENUE OF THE YEAR – Liverpool Philharmonic
• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Billy Butler
• THE ROGER EAGLE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC – Janice Long
• LOCAL MUSIC CHAMPION – Geoff Davies
• JUDGES’ SPECIAL AWARD – The Justice Collective

Musical collaborations on the night :

• The Valentine Brothers & Milly Pye
• Miss Stylie & GhostChant & Miles Christian
• Tree Top & Sense of Sound
• Natalie McCool & Dominic Dunn
• Anna Corcoran & Robert Vincent
• Bird & Bill Ryder-Jones
• Broken Men & KOF
• The Sundowners & Paul Duffy (The Coral)

Graham and Stuart would like to dedicate this award to the memory of their friend Amanda De Angeles (Amanda Jones) who sadly lost her fight with cancer last month.

Amanda was a talented poet, author and writer, and loved supporting local creative talent in all its many forms. Amanda’s warmth, humour and gentle spirit will be missed by her family and her many friends.

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Liverpool Acoustic – Live Music Night of the Year 2013