WAM Song of the Year

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Winners

1996 - Lash - then known as Exteria (outh category)

1997 - Beaverloop ('Pop' category) antique furniture chest

1998 - Cartman (op & coustic categories) counter height dining table

2000 - Ivan Zar (lues category) antique sideboard

2001 - Halogen (special theme category ove)

2002/03 - Andrew Horabin ('Political' category)

2004 - Lauren Brede ('Outstanding Regional' category)

2005 - Damian Crosbie (The Panda Band) ('Pop' category)

2006 - Erik Hecht (Institut Polaire) ('Pop' category)

2007 - Josh Fontaine ('Pop' category)

2008 - Roly Skender and the Tonics ('Pop' category)

Categories

2003

In 2003 there were 1,247 entries and 75 shortlisted nominees in the 15 genre categories. Winners each received $1,000 (Children & Youth winners received $500) and a days recording time at a top Perth studio. The Grand Prize winner received the opportunity to have a promotional single recorded, pressed and released among other select opportunities.

The individual category award winners were:

Country - "Asbestos Fibro" - ADM Powell

Easy Listening Pop/R'n'B - "Back 2 those Timez" - Chanelle

Electronic/Hip Hop - "Boy X Girl Y" - Johnson, Vernie

Hard Rock/Metal/ Punk - "Reprisal" - Simon Pilkington, Aaron Smith

Indi Pop/Rock - "Andy Warhol" - Little Birdy

Jazz/ Funk - "That Hurt" - Myles Wright

Roots - "Sheba Lane" - Lynn Hazelton

Soundtrack/ Filmscore/Experimental - "Green Lantern" - Johannes Luebbers

World/Multicultural - "Day Oh" - Eloy Cardenas

Indigenous - "Raining On Djilba" - George Walley

Children - "Something More" - Wesley Fuller

Youth - "On My Own" - Ryan Blair, Justin Flamer

Love - "Walking Over Sea" - Sam Dunn, Ben Dunn

Political - "Georgie Boy" - Andrew Horabin

Songs For Kids - "Pirlpirltji" - L. Hazelton, A. Ovi, S. Stanford

2004

The WAM Song of the Year for 2004 was announced at the Fly By Night Club in Fremantle on Thursday September 16, 2004. The evening featured performances from past winners including Andrew Horabin and Lynn Hazelton, as well as finalists for the 2005 competition. The WAM Song of the Year was presented by the Minister for the Arts the Hon. Sheila McHale. There was over 1,300 songs entered in the competition with 75 works nominated by the industry panels as finalists in the 15 genre categories.

The individual category award winners were:

Commercial/Contemporary Pop - "Breathe" - Cassie Swinney, Alistair Watson & Escher

Country - "Dirty Liar" - Rob Findlay & Haley Mason

Electronic/Dance Category - "Hit '5'" - Tim Macnamara & Diego Bosco

Hard Rock/Metal - "Bay of Martyrs" - Mike Sukys

Indie Rock/Punk Category - "Tread Easy" - James Crombie & The Bank Holidays

Jazz - "West Bank Moon" - Michael Pigneguy & Sian Brown

Roots - "Slipping With the Blues" - Gerard Maunick

Urban - "Wait a Minute" - Bjorn Berlinger & Nathan Jamieson

Love - "Blame Me" - Frans Bisschops, Jasmine Yee & Michael Miller

Gospel - "Take Over" - Chad Blondel

ASME Upper Secondary (Years 11-12) "Radio Play" - Melissa Erpen

ASME Lower Secondary (Years 8-10) "Home Sweet Home" - Danni Stefanetti

ASME Primary Category "Sidewalk Surfer" - The Flairz

Indigenous - "Hardway" - The Hill (John Bullen, Jarred Wall)

Outstanding Regional Song - "Time For You To Go" - Lauren Brede

2005

The WAM Song of the Year for 2005 was announced at the Fly By Night Club in Fremantle on Thursday October 27, 2005. The evening featured performances from past winners including Andrew Horabin and Lynn Hazelton, as well as finalists for the 2005 competition. Performing on the night were The Bank Holidays, Lake of Bass, New Rules For Boats, Peter Brandy, The Flairz and the 2004 Song of the Year winner, Lauren Brede. The WAM Song of the Year was presented by the Minister for the Arts the Hon. Sheila McHale. There were close to 1,500 songs entered in the competition with 86 works nominated by the industry panels as finalists in the 17 genre categories.

The individual category award winners were:

Pop - "Sleepy Little Death Toll Town" - Damian Crosbie (The Panda Band)

Mixed Bag - "Then You Appear" - Damian Crosbie (The Panda Band)

Blues & Roots - "4 Men Dead" - Kevin Smith

Country - "Lord I Want An Exit" - Emily Barker

Electronic/Dance - "We Gave Colour Away" - Harvey Rae and Hiro? (Thread)

Love - "Drunkard's Wife" - Pete Stone

Rock - "Information" - Sascha Ion, Ronan Charles, Stuart Leach (One Horse Town)

Urban - "Take 5" - Bjorn Berlinger (Tsunami)

World and Folk - "Long Time Ago" - Peter Brandy

Jazz - "Storm" - Marnie Kent and Grant Windsor (Ginger Blu Collective)

Heavy Rock/Metal - "Falling" - Shannon de Bie

Gospel - "Learning to Say" - Mark Cullen

Indigenous Song of the Year - "Long Time Ago" - Peter Brandy

Regional Song of the Year - "Lord I Want An Exit" - Emily Barker

Primary School Aged - "Holey Cheeses" - Oliver Bradley, Albert Loss

Lower Secondary School Aged - "Memory Lane" - Wesley Fuller

Upper Secondary School Aged - "The Best is Yet to Come" - Ben Blondel

2006

The WAM Song of the Year for 2006 was announced on Thursday October 19, 2006 at the Fly By Night Club in Fremantle with awards in 17 different categories. Performing on the night were Kavyen Temperly from Eskimo Joe, The Panda Band, Abbe May and The Rockin' Pneumonia, One Horse Town, the Catherine Noblet Quartet and The Watts. Presenters from Xpress Magazine, The West Australian, RTRFM, ABC Radio, Nova 93.7, Drum Media, Network 10, APRA, Perth International Arts Festival and Minister for the Arts, the Honorable Sheila McHale announced the winners. The winners of most categories were awarded $1,000 cash and 1 day of recording time in a leading Perth studio. The winner of the Grand Prize received an additional 3 days recording time with producer Rob Grant at Poons Head Studios and the pressing of 500 promotional singles/EPs through Westlink Multimedia/MGM.

The individual category award winners were:

Pop - "City Walls and Empires" - Erik Hecht (Institut Polaire)

Blues/Roots - "Sidewindin'" - Abbe May

Gospel - "Flowers In the Desert" - Jeremy Dixon

Electronic/Dance - "These Times" - David McKinney, Rachel Claudio

Heavy Rock/Metal - "Drag In Drag Out" - Kevin Curran, Todd Fishwick

Primary - Free - "Matt Larsen"

Rock - "Red Means Go" - B. Mulvena-Trinder, I. Berney, J. Sher, C. Palmer

Jazz - "Wanderer" - Catherine Noblet

Lower Secondary - "Shadows Of A City" - E. Hamilton, G. Hutchings, M. Mackintosh, L. Osborn

Urban - "Lose Control" - Sundeep Barman-Roy

World/Folk - "Mon Ankor Anmourer" - Grace Barbe, James Searle

Love - "Old Folks, Drunks and Babies" - Sascha Ion

Upper Secondary - "Happy Birthday Dave" - Matthew Beau Gresham

Regional - "Call Of The Wild" - Xavier Brown

Country - "Live On Love" - Polly (Kylie) Medlen

Indigenous - "Our Song" - Jason Bartlett and Phillip Bartlett

Mixed Bag - "It's a PC 21st Century New Millennium Romantic Arrangement..." - Andrew Horabin

2007

The 2007 WAM Song of the Year was announced at the Fly By Night in Fremantle, on Wednesday October 31, 2007. There were eighteen category winners and included for the first year a Professional category where published Western Australian based songwriters are given the chance to enter their works in WA premier song writing Awards. The Grand Prize for the WAM Song of the Year in 2007 includes a 3 day recording session and a pressing of 500 CDs.

The individual category award winners were:

Gospel - "My Hallelujah" Paul Morrison

Jazz - "Curious Yellow" Adrian Kelly

Country - "Take Me With You" Polly Medlen

Urban - "Get By" Glen Foreman, Scott Griffiths & Alex Plant

Electronic / Dance - "Hot Property" Hayley McLennan and Simon Sieradzki

Indigenous - "Kick the Monkey" Jason Bartlett & Phillip Bartlett

World and Folk - "Moodjebing" Jessie Lloyd & Della Rae Morrison

Regional - "Two Months" Polly Medlen

Love - "There is a Room on Hold" James Crombie & Wibekke Reczek (The Bank Holidays)

Blues 'n' Roots - "Lara Clare" Craig Sinclair

Primary - "Valley of Flowers" by Madi MacDougall & Erika McKay

Lower Secondary - "Wishing on a Star" Jordi Davieson

Upper Secondary - "Overcast Day" Timothy Nelson

Mixed Bag - "Bring Out Your Dead" Rachael Dease, Tristen Parr, Ant Gray, Tara John & Greg Hosking (Schvendes)

Rock - "The World or Nothing" Scott Tomlinson, Greg Sanders, Brenton Bell & Dayvid Clark

Heavy Rock/Metal - "Broken Eyes" Brett Jones, Johnny Kyi & Nigel Watts

Pop - "Holidayz" Josh Fontaine

Professional - "Sun Dirt Water" by Vikki Thorn (The Waifs)

2008

The 2008 WAM Song of the Year was announced at the Fly By Night in Fremantle, on Thursday 9 October 2008. The 85 nominees in 17 categories were announced on Monday 22 September. The Grand Prize for the WAM Song of the Year 2008 included a cash prize of $5,000, together with a 3 day recording session at Poons Head Recording Studio and 500 CDs by DiskBank.

For the first time, the public were invited to listen to and vote for a nominee in the Most Popular Song category. Public voting was later cancelled after claims of technical issues allowing multiple votes, it was replaced by judging by Sunday Times and PerthNOW entertainment staff. The professional category was also cancelled due to lack of numbers.

Over 400 songwriters from throughout Western Australia submitted 1640 songs, the second highest number of entries received in the competition's 19 year history.

The 18 award winners were:

Blues & Roots - "Howl And Moan" by Abbe May

Caf - "Revien" by Cloud Kollektiv

Country - "Place Where I Belong" by Phyllis Bennell (Warangka Band)

Electronic/Dance - "Realizing" by Cloud Kollektiv

Gospel - "Light" by Lindsay Hamminga

Heavy Rock/Metal - "Refuse The Sickness" by R Felton, S Mitchell, D Anderton, M Kruit & C Mitchell (Chaos Divine)

Indigenous - "Gundulla - We Dance" by D Stokes, B Stokes, J Masters & R Martinez (The Yabu Band)

Jazz - "Til Death Does Me Part" by Johannes Luebbers

Mixed Bag - "The Land" by Abraham Dunovits (Funkalleros)

Pop - "Feel" by Roly Skender and The Tonics

Regional - "Kaya" by Charmaine Bennell (Warangka Band), from Bunbury WA

Rock - "Howl And Moan" by Abbe May

School, Primary - "Shadows" by Josephine Langford

School, Secondary Lower - "Smile" by Mike Nutt

School, Secondary Upper - "The Pony And The Ark" by Lyndon Blue

Urban - "Behind The Curtain" by Emcee Able

World & Folk - "Kaya" by Charmaine Bennell (Warangka Band)

2008 GRAND PRIZE

As judged by an independent industry panel from all category winners.

"Feel" by Roly Skender and The Tonics

2008 MOST POPULAR SONG

As judged by The Sunday Times and PerthNOW entertainment staff from all nominated songs.

"Give Up Money For Music" by Robert Sazdov (BSYDE)

References

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^ "Entries open for WAM Song of the Year". Country Music Bulletin. 2007-05-30. http://www.countrymusicbulletin.com.au/newsarchive_May07.html. Retrieved 2009-04-07. 

^ "Fontaine takes WAM Song of the Year award". FasterLouder.com.au. 2007-11-01. http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/local/11113/Fontaine-takes-WAM-Song-of-the-Year-award.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-07. 

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^ Eliezer, Christie (2008-10-07). "WAM cancels popular vote for Song of the Year". TheMusic.com.au. http://www.themusic.com.au/imm_display.php?s=christie&id=704&d=2008-10-07. Retrieved 2009-04-07. 

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