WAM has announced 80 nominated songs in 16 diverse categories ranging from "Heavy" to "Mentally Healthy", for the 2012 WAM Song Of The Year.
Winners will be announced at the Awards Night at the Fly By Night Musicians' Club on Thursday 11 October at 7.30pm. The evening will feature live performances by 2011 Song of the Year Grand Prize winner Timothy Nelson & The Infidels, as well as Yabu Band, Kucka and Boom! Bap! Pow!
The nominees, listed alphabetically in song title and category order, are:
Blues & Roots
Bitter Tears by John Read
Driller by Dilip 'n the Davs
Kimberley Moon by Matt Cal
My Baby Must Be Blind by Mister & Sunbird
Too Much Information by Ego Libido
Country
Banged Up by Polly Medlen Band
I Won't Be Too Far Behind by Jonny Taylor
Love Songs by Wes Snowball
Shifting Sands by David Hyams and The Miles To Go Band
Take Me Home by The Ghost Hotel
Electronic / Dance
Blanket by DeadCollection
Incandescence by Ylem
Slew by Ylem
Swim (Winter Sleep Rework) by Lilt
We are Home Again by The Brow Horn
Orchestra
Experimental
Mollusc by TheIntensoBand
Polly (serialkillersundays) by Kucka
Rumination by Cycle -440
Tetraplegiah by Christopher de Groot
Zip Up Jacket Combination Lock by TheIntensoBand
Heavy
Bury The King by Goat
Honorary Member of The First High Society by Castle Bravo
Never Sleep Again by Chainsaw Hookers
Sleazebag by Sleepfreak
Walk Away by The Sixth Extinction
Indigenous
Blue Stranger by OZ Island
Born on the River by Jake and the Cowboys
Crash by Jake and the Cowboys
Petrol Paint & Glue by Yabu Band
Some Boy by Baby Kool
Fade Away by Rick Webster
Maelstrom by Abbey/Foster/Falle
Roessle by Tal Cohen Quartet
The Busker by Chris Foster Trio
There's More Fish in the Sea by Tal Cohen Quartet
Love
Aimee by Rainy Day Women
Driftwood by Helen Shanahan
Falling Outta Love by Sugarpuss
I'll Tell The Water of You by Warning Birds
Priority Tree by Patient Little Sister
Mentally Healthy
Grey Days by Kris Kingwell
Milliner's Song by Claire Moodie
Talk About It by Slackjaw
That Makes You Feel Better by Dave Taylor and The Groove Unit
Petrol Paint & Glue by Yabu Band
Pop
Connect Five by Sheryn Binks
Don't You Forget by Jake and the Cowboys
Relationshipdenial by Bastian's Happy Flight
Sing It by The Ghost Hotel
Sleigh Bed by Rainy Day Women
Regional
Brighter Than You Feel by Jonny Taylor
Colour Me Real by Reverend And The Deathbed Conversions
Dreams by Jude Iddison
Heart of a Lion by Codie Sundstrom
Need A Little Love by David Taylor and The Groove Unit
Rock
7 by The Shallows
Charlatan by Harlequin League
Nothing Left To Prove by Patient Little Sister
Ordinary by Husband
Take Me Home by The Ghost Hotel
Schools - 14 Years & Under
Fly by Sophie Costello
Inside and Out by Lucinda Nicholls
Please by Zoe Roberts
Sinking Ships by Brittany Freeman
We Shall Not Fall by Splinta
Schools - 15 to 17 Years
Apple & The Worm by Brayden Sibbald
Bumpy Ride by Jennifer Renee Hannam
I Think I've Got You by Morgan Bain
Megalomaniac by Codie Sundstrom
Somebody Else by Julia Nicholls
Urban / Hip Hop
Affirm Your Masculinity by Andrew Horabin
High Life by Slackman
Jobbed by FG featuring Wisdom2th
The Ego-dystonic Blues by FG
Worldstop by FG
World / Folk
Afro Sega by Grace Barbe Afro-Kreol
Isfahan by Daramad
Jump by Spoonful of Sugar
Mother's Petunias by Brayden Sibbald
Old Brown Piano by Rachel & Henry Climb a Hill
Checkout nominees GOAT with their nominated song " Bury The King".
