WA SONGWRITERS

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SUNSET COAST SONGWRITERS
The search for WA’s most talented songwriters has kicked has started with West Australian Music (WAM)’s Song of the Year 2021 competition. Sponsored by Act Belong Commit.

WA Song writers shout out!

WAM’s Song of the Year showcases the art of songwriting by locals that discovers the net big thing. Open to all ages, levels and genres, the competition provides an opportunity for WA songwriters to have their music heard by industry professionals with over $45K in prizes on offer. Past winners include Stella Donnelly, Beni Bjah, Kučka, Little Birdy, Abbe May, Luke Steele and Carla Geneve, WAM Song of the Year is an opportunity with the WA music community>

Song of the Year 2021 features 17 categories, including;
Blues/Roots, Country, Electronic, Experimental, Folk, Global, Hip Hop/New R&B, Jazz, Heavy/Metal, Punk/Hardcore, Pop, Rock
+ Act Belong Commit extra categories for Schools 14 Years & Under
Schools 15-18, Outstanding Indigenous and Outstanding Regional.
All winners will be at the WAM Song of the Year Awards Night, with one song selected to win the grand prize.

Entrants also receive personalized feedback on their songs from leading music minds Anna Laverty, Joel Quartermain (Eskimo Joe), Sam Ford (Tone City Recording Studio) and Tenille Elkins (APRA AMCOS/NM TAFE) via the song evaluation option.

WAM have released the nominees for their Song Of The Year contest for 2021. Presented with Act Belong Commit, the contest sees acts from all over the state competing in multiple categories to take out the grand prize of Song of the Year.

Regional and remote artists have made a stand out this year with Midwest acts Warralgurniya and RATSALAD and Great Southern region’s PINSTRIPE and House of Commons all receiving dual nominations. Perth based artists Siobhan Cotchin, Jack Davies and The Bush Chooks, Carla Geneve, Timothy Nelson, Ella Gilbert, The Struggling Kings and Pat Chow were also nominated in dual categories.

After last year’s awards screened remotely due to COVID concerns, WAM are pleased to be holding a live event for the occasion again, with the Song of the Year 2021 Awards Party set to take over Freo.Social on Wednesday, June 30. The evening will be hosted by Blake Williams and Odette Mercy with the winners announced in between performances from Chaos Divine, Wasteland, Sydnee Cartner, Detour and tracks from RTRFM’s Homegrown DJs. There will also be a special live performance from Warralgurniya, featuring 87 year old Warriyangga-Thiinma elder Peter Salmon, the last remaining speaker of the endangered Thiinma language.

Check out this year’s nominations below:

ACT BELONG COMMIT
Presented by Healthway | Studio Sponsor Lolly Box Music
Loud Jordan Anthony
Are You Ok? Kelea
Cactus King Brown
Always Was Always Will Be Natasha Elridge
Everglow PINSTRIPE
Grow Sam McGovern

BLUES/ROOTS
Presented by Clancy’s Fish Pub Fremantle | Studio Sponsor Artisan Music
Devils Curse Helen Townsend
Peaceful Kind of Love Jimmy McGrath
Storm Michael Day
Weeping Willow Mossy Fogg
Just The Way It Is Siobhan Cotchin
Darkness In The Light Tracey Barnett

COUNTRY
Presented by Country Music Club of Boyup Brook | Studio Sponsor Shanghai Twang Studios
Old Man On The Hill Al Mac
Charlotte Avenue Brandon Poletti
The Right Reasons Carla Geneve
Attention Claudia Tripp
Ngany Koorlangka (My Kid) Cyndy Moody/Phil Bartlett – Ngaalang Moort
Some Things Don’t Last a Very Long Time Jack Davies and The Bush Chooks

ELECTRONIC
Presented by Freo.Social | Studio Sponsor Fremantle Recording Studios
Kind Regards Drew Mayhills
Highs Lows Fourth State Turiya
For Phil My Brother Fran
IIX House of Commons
Coppola (feat. Marksman Lloyd) Maver
The Protest Sonic Reflection

EXPERIMENTAL
Presented by RTRFM 92.1 | Studio Sponsor Pavement Studios
Morning Call Furchick
I’m Gonna Kill You But I’m Gonna Take My Time House of Commons
Hela Kuti Injured Ninja
Coodamurup Jean-Michel Maujean
The Call samarobryn
Ashes to Oceans Matt Tondut

FOLK
Presented by The Poster Girls | Studio Sponsor Tone City Recording Studio
The Right Reasons Carla Geneve
It Goes For Miles Helen Shanahan
Loving You’s Like a Mouldy Cup of Tea Jack Davies and The Bush Chooks
Clocks Kris Nelson
Wadandi Boodja The Nomadics
Biding Time Timothy Nelson

POP
Presented by Lyric Lane | Studio Sponsor Soundbaker
Whole Anna Schneider
In The Fire Coterie
Out Of The Blue Ella Gilbert
A Pane Of Glass No Charisma
Your House Timothy Nelson
Grid WasteLand, Sydnee Carter

OUTSTANDING REGIONAL
Presented by Spotify | Studio Sponsor Real2Reel / James Newhouse
Afterglow Brayden Sibbald
Good Faith Intrusion
Justify My Shadow and I
Everglow PINSTRIPE
Indigenous People Rocky Ridge Band
Fever Dreams Technicolor Dream Machine

PUNK/HARDCORE
Presented by Rosemount Hotel | Studio Sponsor Blondel Recording Studios
Love Hate Cryot Girl
What Moral Compass Desert Dogs
We’re Just Blood Electric State
It Gets Worse Pat Chow
Bloke RATSALAD
Cracks Sly Withers

ROCK
Presented by Badlands Bar | Studio Sponsor Debaser Studios
I Wanna Know Big Orange
It Gets Worse Pat Chow
The Fair-Weather Friend Blues Siobhan Cotchin
Phone The Psychotic Reactions
Baanigarr The Struggling Kings
Skeleton Song Triangle Fight

SCHOOLS 14 & UNDER
Presented by Perfect Pitch Publishing | Studio Sponsor Vision Studios
Old Land’s Tale Angelina Curtis
Surely Bailey Perrie
Knock Knock Connor Perrie
Take my Heart SubZero
Ghost Tex Holmes
WOAH Vahsoong

SCHOOLS 15 – 18
Presented by Mega Music | Studio Sponsor John Butler Studio
Big White Lies Ani
Moving On Castle Hughes
Left Shoe Detour
The Time Machine Song Farraday’s Cage
Drop Dead Gorgeous ORCA
Away Patio Living

GLOBAL
Presented by XVinylX / Vinyl Café | Studio Sponsor Blackbird Sound Studio
Locked Up Dr Cuz and Friends
Jesus Gav Brown
Standing Strong Randa And The Soul Kingdom
We Got It Wrong SKELTON
These 4 Walls VERONIKA
Warri Yungu, Warri Baba Warralgurniya

HEAVY/METAL
Presented by Kosmic | Studio Sponsor Sumo Sound Studios
Put It To Rest Car Park Social
No Saviour (Rise & Fall) Chaos Divine
Suffer Slow KIMURA
Freeworld Pystopia
Gravy RATSALAD
Hunter The Harvest Trail

HIP HOP/NEW R&B
Presented by Sorrento Strategic Music | Studio Sponsor Forest Studios
Darling Adrian Dzvuke
Right to Censor Bluntfield
Out Of The Blue Ella Gilbert
LadyBird Mali Jo$e
Till Dawn nxlly
Mother God Racka Chachi

JAZZ
Presented by Alex Hotel | Studio Sponsor Tunafish Recording Company
Stranded Brodie Stewart
Cantuta Daniel Susnjar
Uber-Fugue Harry Mitchell
Song For A Better Day Jayden Blockley
The Funk You See John Pin
Ebor Zac Grafton

OUTSTANDING INDIGENOUS
Presented by Nannup Festival | Studio Sponsor Poons Head Studios
Wet Season Main River Band
Malu Mabu Liyan Matalja
Youngest OG Sarmec
Baanigarr The Struggling Kings
Ngaalija Yangoogoo Yaanaa (Come Let’s Walk Together) Theona Councillor
Warri Yungu, Warri Baba Warralgurniya

WAM have released the nominees for their Song of the Year 2021 competition, with the winners announced at the Awards Party at Freo.Social on Wednesday, June 30.

WAM Song of the Year’s Grand Prize includes:

$3,000 cash
– 100 x colour vinyl 7-inches pressed courtesy of XVinylX
– Vinyl Café Radio ad campaign from RTRFM.
– two-day recording session with Andy Lawson of Debaser Studio.
– national media servicing campaign for a single or release
– Firestarter Music promotion
– 250 posters distributed by The Poster Girls
– Publishing and sync licensing deal with Perfect Pitch Publishing
– tutorial in publishing and licensing and ongoing industry mentoring.
– complimentary one night’s stay at the Alex Hotel
– Four x 3-month Spotify premium subscription codes
– $100 voucher for Mega Music
– Photo shoot by music photographer Cam Campbell @placeorpoint
– WAMFest performance offer
– Two passes to WAMCon

Runner-up will receive
– $1,500 cash prize
– $100 voucher to spend at Mega Music

Second-runner up will receive
– $1,000 cash prize
– $100 voucher for Mega Music

Plus both runners-up will each receive two passes to WAMCon and a 3-month premium subscription to Spotify.