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Liverpool GIT Awards Shortlist Revelead

• 18th Mar 2013

Relative newcomers to the awards season, the Merseyside based GIT Awards have revealed the 12 shortlisted artists for the 2013 edition.

The GIT (Getintothis) Award was warmly received in 2012 and the 2013 winner will be chosen from the carefully selected shortlist of exciting emerging acts and revealed on Friday April 19 at Leaf on Bold Street.

The GIT Award 2013 shortlist is:
Baltic Fleet
Barberos
By The Sea
Nadine Carina
Clinic
Conan
Dan Croll
John Heckle
Jetta
Tyler Mensah
Stealing Sheep
Wave Machines

The shortlist was then decided by a 12-strong judging panel comprising respected music industry figures including BBC 6 Music presenter and son of John Peel Tom Ravenscroft, the editor of rock and pop music bible Q Magazine, Liverpool-born Andrew Harrison , Matt Wilkinson, NME’s new music editor, leading UK music website, The Quietus’ editor, John Doran plus the cornerstones of Liverpool’s music and arts scene.

Andrew Harrison, editor of Q Magazine, said: “This is a genuinely impressive and varied shortlist proves that Merseyside continues to generate fantastic musical talent like nowhere else on earth. The standard of entries was high across board and in common, I suspect, with a lot of the judges, I found the decision-making process very hard.

“Best of all, the artists we heard managed to draw on Liverpool’s musical heritage without living in the past – proving that even with its world-beating history, Liverpool music continues to forge ahead.”