Electro-swing awards 2012 - nominations are in.

At 10:45 this morning I received and email I had been looking forward to for a week or so. It contained the names of those producers, DJs, bands, parties and blogs nominated in this year's Electro-Swing awards.

To my great delight and surprise, this blog has been nominated in the 'Best Blog' category. I cannot begin to say how proud of this I am, given that the page has only been running for a few months, and the fact that this year the nominations were made by people directly involved in the electro-swing world - DJs, other bloggers, producers and so on - who ever wins in the end, to be acknowledged by the industry is a great feeling and honour- thanks to all who voted for me.

There will be a public vote starting next Monday (26th November, my birthday!), so I will need your votes! Please follow this link to the Facebook page for the awards and join the event so that you can vote! 

Below is the full list of nominees and categories for the awards.

Best Electro Swing DJ Producer In 2012...  

Bart&Baker

Parov Stelar

Grant Lazlo

Wolfie Razzmatazz

Swing Republic

Minimatic

Best Electro Swing VJ In 2012...

Doc Terry

Kormac

Nick Hollywood

Best Electro Swing Band In 2012

Caravan Palace

Parov Stelar

Electric Swing Circus

Best Electro Swing SOLO LIVE ACT In 2012..

Alice Francis

Cab Canavaral

MSP

Best Electro Swing DJ LIVE ACT In 2012

Wolfie Razzamatazz

Kiwistar

Sound Nomaden

Best Electro Swing PRODUCER In 2012

Skeewiff

Jamie Berry

Lazlo

Best Electro Swing ALBUM In 2012

Parov Stelar - "The Princess " 

Caravan Palace - "Panic"

Skeewiff - "Electro Swing & Gospel Breaks"

Best Electro Swing REMIX JOB In 2012...

Alice Francis - "Shoot him down" (Parov Stelar remix)

Swing Republic - "Crazy in love" (C@t in the h@ remix)

Peggy Lee - "Fever" (Stavroz remix)

Best Electro Swing BLOG In 2012

electro-swing.com

Swing Rebellion

Sunday Swing

Jack the Cad

Best Electro Swing RADIO SHOW In 2012

Electro Swing Revolution

Freshly Squeezed

Bart&Baker Happy Hour

Best Electro Swing MIXTAPE In 2012

Wolfie Razzmatazz - "Whomp Concerto"

Tony Maroni - "Summerswing"

Madame Summit - "Elephant Swinging"

Best Electro Swing COMPILATION In 2012

Electro Swing V

Electro Swing revolution 3

Best LABEL for Electro Swing Music In 2012

Freshly Squeezed

Chin Chin

Etage Noir

Best Electro Swing PARTY In 2012...

Electro Swing Club London

Cirque de la Nuit

It's a Swing thing

Electro Swing Berlin

Best Electro Swing Graphic or Design Job In 2012

Caravan Palace Panic Album

Electro Swing Club Flyers

Cirque de la Nuit flyers

Best Electro Swing SOLO HOPE FOR 2012

Kid Kasino

Vassili Gemini

MSP

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION to ELECTROSWING Music

Chris Tofu

Bart&Baker

Nick Hollywood

There are some really interesting nominations here. I am very pleased to see Skeewiff getting support in the best producer and album categories, and that C@ in the H@, Vassili Gemini, Wolfie Razzamatazz and the Electric Swing Circus are all in the running for awards. Most pleasing of all is that Chris Tofu is up for the Outstanding Contribution award, given his recent trip to hospital for serious brain surgery. Surprising omissions from the list, in my view at any rate, are Swingrowers, Captain Flatcap and Odjbox. 

It would be great if you would all cast your votes next week. Here is the link again!

Vote JACK!