AIM AWARDS 2016 - THE WINNERS!

BEST SMALL LABEL in association with Proper Music Distribution NUMBERS

BEST DIFFICULT SECOND ALBUM in association with Radio X DAUGHTER - NOT TO DISAPPEAR

SPECIAL CATALOGUE RELEASE OF THE YEAR  in association with MODO SLADE – WHEN SLADE ROCKED THE WORLD

HARDEST WORKING BAND OR ARTIST DARREN HAYMAN

GOLDEN WELLY AWARD FOR BEST INDEPENDENT FESTIVAL in association with AIF, voted for by readers of DIY BRAINCHILD FESTIVAL

INDEPENDENT BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR  in association with YouTube CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS

INDIE CHAMPION in association with CI JON TOLLEY - BANQUET RECORDS

INDEPENDENT VIDEO OF THE YEAR in association with Vevo OSCAR - SOMETIMES

INDEPENDENT TRACK OF THE YEAR in association with MCPS ADELE - HELLO

BEST LIVE ACT voted for by visitors to Songkick BABYMETAL

PPL AWARD FOR MOST PLAYED NEW INDEPENDENT ACT SIGALA

INDEPENDENT ALBUM OF THE YEAR in association with The Orchard LITTLE SIMZ - A CURIOUS TALE OF TRIALS + PERSONS

INDEPENDENT LABEL OF THE YEAR in association with Believe Digital EPITAPH / ANTI

INNOVATOR AWARD in association with FUGA STORMZY

PIONEER AWARD RICHARD RUSSELL - XL RECORDINGS

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC in association with Amazon Music RÓISÍN MURPHY

AIM Awards 2014

The AIM Independent Music Awards took place in London last night - and the winners of those all important indie gongs are .....

BEST SMALL LABEL
Hyperdub

BEST LIVE ACT
Sophie Ellis-Bextor

INDEPENDENT BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR
London Grammar

HARDEST WORKING BAND OR ARTIST
Ghetts

SPECIAL CATALOGUE RELEASE OF THE YEAR
Various – Purple Snow – Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound

BEST ‘DIFFICULT’ SECOND ALBUM
Ben Watt – Hendra

GOLDEN WELLY AWARD FOR BEST INDEPENDENT FESTIVAL
Barn on the Farm

INDIE CHAMPION AWARD
John Doran, The Quietus

INDEPENDENT TRACK OF THE YEAR
Twin Atlantic – Heart and Soul

Scroobius and friends

INDEPENDENT VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – You Will See Me

PPL AWARD FOR MOST PLAYED NEW INDEPENDENT ACT
London Grammar

INDEPENDENT ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Arctic Monkeys – AM


INNOVATOR AWARD
Steve Goodman, Hyperdub

Alison and Martin

SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD
Alison Wenham, AIM

PIONEER AWARD
Martin Mills, Beggars Group

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC AWARD
Richie Hawtin

Mills scoops AIM Pioneer Award 2014

Martin Mills

Beggars Group founder Martin Mills has been selected by the AIM Awards judging panel to receive this year's Pioneer Award, recognising a visionary independent label founder.  The award, sponsored by The Orchard, will be presented to Martin at the ceremony on 2nd September in London. Mills set up Beggars Banquet in 1974, initially as record shops in London, guiding its expansion into a record label in 1977, launching the careers of Bauhaus, The Charlatans, The Cult, The Lurkers and Gary Numan amongst others. The company has since grown in to a confederacy of successful record labels, operating from London and with offices in all major markets. The Beggars Group, which Martin chairs, currently comprises 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL Recordings and Young Turks, whose rosters include the likes of Adele, Alabama Shakes, Bon Iver, Cat Power, Grimes, The National, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Vampire Weekend, Warpaint, Jack White, Yo La Tengo and The xx. Martin is the fourth recipient of the Pioneer Award, following previous winners Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), Daniel Miller (Mute) and Laurence Bell (Domino). "I'm delighted and moved to receive this honour from my peers" said Martin on the news of the award, "nothing can mean more than that".

AIM Award nominees announced

The nominees for the third annual AIM Independent Music Awards are out – the winners will be announced at the AIM Awards ceremony, taking place at The Brewery in London on 3rd September. 

Best Live Act

voted for by visitors to the-fly.co.uk

Bellowhead

Bonobo

Enter Shikari

Johnny Marr

The National

Independent Breakthrough of the Year

sponsored by 7digital

The 1975

Daughter

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Palma Violets

Passenger

Public Service Broadcasting

Hardest Working Band or Artist

Alt-J

The Computers

Enter Shikari

Frankie & The Heartstrings

Sam Lee

Best 'Difficult' Second Album

in association with Xfm

Ghostpoet - Some Say I So I Say Light

John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

Major Lazer - Free The Universe

Villagers - {Awayland}

The xx - Coexist

Best Small Label

sponsored by Disc Manufacturing Services

Alcopop! Records

Gringo Records

Hyperdub

Rocket Girl

Too Pure Singles Club

Special Catalogue Release of the Year

in association with Amazon

Bonobo - The North Borders

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights 10th Anniversary Edition

The Horrors - Higher

Various Artists - Kenya Special

Various Artists - Scared to get Happy: A Story of Indie Pop 1980-89

Golden Welly Award for Best Independent Festival

sponsored by UK Music in association with AIF & DIY

Hebridean Celtic Festival

In The Woods

LeeFest

Truck Festival

Y Not Festival

Independent Video of the Year

sponsored by Vevo

Childhood - Solemn Skies

David Byrne & St Vincent - Who

Django Django - WOR

Grimes - Genesis

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

The Ramona Flowers - Lust & Lies

Indie Champion Award

sponsored by Consolidated Independent

Gilles Peterson - BBC 6music

Joe Sparrow - A New Band a Day

John Kennedy - Xfm

Lauren Laverne - BBC 6music

Lawrence Montgomery - Rise Music

Independent Track of the Year

in association with Spotify

Daughter - Youth

Jagwar Ma - The Throw

Palma Violets - Best of Friends

Passenger - Let Her Go

TNGHT - Higher Ground

Vampire Weekend - Diane Young

Independent Album of the Year

in association with Record Store Day

Daughter - If You Leave

David Byrne & St Vincent - Love This Giant

Ghostpoet - Some Say I So I Say Light

Jagwar Ma - Howlin

John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

Jon Hopkins - Immunity

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away

Public Service Broadcasting - Inform-Educate-Entertain

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

The xx - Coexist

Independent Label of the Year

in association with Coutts

Bella Union

Cooking Vinyl

Matador

[PIAS] Recordings

Warp

PPL Award for Most Played New Independent Act

The 2 Bears

Alabama Shakes

Alt J

Django Django

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

AIM awards out!

The Association of Independent Music has celebrated the very best that independent music has to offer at the second annual AIM Independent Music Awards. Hosted by BBC Radio broadcasters Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq, with live performances from Frankie and the Heartstrings, Big Deal and Land Observations, the Awards, held at the Brewery in Clerkenwell, has established itself as the event of the year for independent music talent.

The Prodigy proved their enduring popularity with the masses, receiving the Best Live Act Award as voted for by visitors to the-fly.co.uk. New mum, Adele, was also among those honoured at the event, winning the PPL Award for Most Played Independent Act, capping what has been a momentous year for her. Rising stars Alt-J took home Independent Breakthrough of the Year recognising their huge success in the past 12 months, which has seen them become one of the UK’s most popular bands. Enter Shikari, who led the nominations, landed the coveted Independent Album of the Year accolade, beating off stiff competition from Alabama Shakes and Liars. First Aid Kit’s ‘The Lion’s Roar’ was awarded Best ‘Difficult’ Second Album.  60 Days of Static won the hardest working band award and Leefest won the Golden Welly Award for best festival. 

It wasn’t just the artists having all the fun, with a wealth of the Independent sector’s behind the scenes movers and shakers also tasting glory. Black Butter Records, who scored a number 1 hit with Rudimental’s ‘Feel The Love’ earlier this year, claimed Best Small Label, Bella Union’s Simon Raymonde won Independent Entrepreneur of the Year and Ian Evans, IME Music accepted the prestigious Indie Champion Award.  The Independent Label of the Year trophy went to 4AD in recognition of their consistently strong A&R, with releases this year from Grimes, Twin Shadow, Purity Ring and Mark Lanegan Band.  

As previously announced, Edwyn Collins received the Outstanding Contribution To Music award, which was presented on the night by Edwyn’s long term friend Vic Godard of Subway Sect fame and Frankie & The Heartstrings, whose debut album was produced by Edwyn. Mute Boss, Daniel Miller accepted the Pioneer Award, recognising his huge influence on the independent sector and electronic music in a career spanning three decades.

Edwyn Collins and Daniel Miller to receive AIM Awards

AIM Independent Music Awards have announced the recipients of 2 awards for 2012: the legendary Edwyn Collins is set to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award, and Mute founder Daniel Miller will receive the prestigious Pioneer Award. All other winners will be unveiled at the AIM Independent Music Awards’ second ceremony which will be held at The Brewery in Clerkenwell on October 29th.


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AIM Awards back

Following the huge success of their inaugural awards, the Association of Independent Music (AIM) have announced that the AIM Independent Music Awards will return once again in 2012, casting a spotlight on the plethora of talent in the independent sector. Doubling in size in direct response to the overwhelming interest in 2011’s event, the AIM Awards will be held on October 29th 2012 at their new venue, The Brewery in Clerkenwell, London. Chairman and CEO of AIM, Alison Wenham commented: "The first AIM Awards (2011) was a fantastic event for the artists and companies whose hard work was finally recognised by their peers. We hope that as the awards show grows in size and stature, the wider industry will take note of the unique contribution the indie sector makes to the quality and diversity of the British Music Industry."