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The GIT Awards 2016 Announces Annual Award Ceremony Details

• 7th Jan 2016

Liverpool music prize The GIT Award launches its fifth edition today culminating in a spectacular event at Constellations in Liverpool’s thriving Baltic Triangle on Saturday 14 May 2016.

The process to find The GIT Award’s 12 nominees begins today with artists and bands invited to send their four tracks to the judging panel at getintothis@gmail.com

The fifth GIT Award recipient will follow in the footsteps of previous winners Loved Ones (2012), Baltic Fleet (2013), Forest Swords (2014) and last year’s winners All We Are.

The overall winner of the GIT Award 2016 will once again receive a cash prize of £1000.
Richard O’Flynn, from All We Are, said: “’Getting nominated for, and then winning the GIT Award in 2015 was a great moment for us. As always, Liverpool is full of amazing bands and artists and to win the Award was both a surprise and a massive honour. The prize money was invested back into touring and was well appreciated. The support we get from the scene in Liverpool is amazing and we’ll always give it right back. We’re looking forward to next year!”

The GIT Award 2016 free launch event takes place on Friday 29 January 2016 at new Liverpool city centre venue The Buyers Club, on 24 Hardman Street, at 7.30pm.

Returning for his fifth successive year as a GIT Award judge, the Quietus editor, John Doran, said: “Even speaking as a bad wool – and one who lives in That London as well – it’s always a pleasure to be involved in the GIT Award. More and more people are starting to realise that Liverpool (and the North West in general) is currently going through something of a home grown musical reinvigoration in the kinds of genres you’d expect not to mention other areas such as grime, bass music and heavy experimental psych etc.”