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NMG Awards 2024

Friday 13th September 2024

Annual music awards celebrating the talent and achievements of emerging artists based in East Anglia.

The event takes place at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

2024 Categories and Nominations

♫ 18 & Under
♫ Alternative
♫ Electronic & Experimental
♫ Female Solo
♫ Folk & Americana
♫ Heavy
♫ Indie
♫ Male Solo
♫ New Band
♫ Pop
♫ Rock
♫ Urban
AUDIENCE CHOICE
BREAKOUT ARTIST
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
VENUE OF THE YEAR

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About NMG

The New Music Generator is a weekly music show that showcases the best in local talent.

The New Music Generator (NMG) airs every Wednesday evening from 7pm hosted by Tim Willett with NMG Saturday airing every Saturday afternoon from 4pm hosted by Rebecca May. Both programmes are broadcast on Cambridge 105 Radio and support artists from across East Anglia.

The two-hour flagship shows include the latest submissions to the programme, live sessions, interviews and previews of upcoming gigs and events.

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NMG Hosts Rebecca May & Tim Willett

NMG Awards

In addition to the radio show, New Music Generator also hosts an annual awards ceremony recognising the achievements of the local scene – The NMG Awards. 2024 sees the 11th running of this event.

Tim Willett is the host of The New Music Generator radio programme on Wednesdays and creator of the brand. Tim is 37 years old and resides in Ely – working for radio as well as in live events and artist management through Off The Chart Artist Management, Tim has judged the Cambridge Band Competition and co-organises BurySOUND, he’s chaired the judging panel for the NMG Awards and programmed stages at Strawberry Fair for 12 years as well as stints involved with Cambridge Rock Festival, Homegrown Music Festival and The Big Weekend. In 2024, Tim co-founded Bandmade Merch Co to help emerging artists buy merchandise in affordable quantities.

Rebecca May is the host of NMG Saturday. She re-joins NMG after a two year stint as host of BBC Introducing in Cambridgeshire. Rebecca resides in Impington and has a passion for music flowing through her veins. She also hosts her own new music podcast titled Music in May and is a regular gig-goer across the country.

The Nomination Process

First, an artist must be primarily based in East Anglia. By that, we include Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and now, Lincolnshire.

This artist must have had more than one new and original track featured by NMG (by Tim Willett and/or Rebecca May) between 1st October 2023 and 31st May 2024.

Covers or re-releases are not eligible. Any artist which is not currently active or who has disbanded in this period are also not eligible. Some artists may not be included on this list at their request.

Due to adding a second weekly show from October 2023 the number of artists we now feature is huge and too many to include on the initial nominations list for the NMG Awards so a shortlisting process happened to bring the first round down to approximately 150 nominees under this criteria.

 

Nominated artists were contacted by email and invited to submit up to two tracks for the judging panel to listen to. They had a fortnight to do this and any artists who choose not to submit or who missed the deadline will not be eligible to win an award in any category thereafter. The deadline for this process was 12th August.

The judging panel is made up of well known names from the music scene in East Anglia. Most categories are 100% decided by the panel. For 2024, the New Band category will be 60% judged by the panel and 40% by public vote. Audience Choice (as the name suggests) is purely a public vote.

Any artist who has submitted tracks to be judged is eligible to win and has been invited to attend the ceremony at The Apex on 13th September 2024 and has been given a code to buy tickets for the artist seating area.

Public tickets located in the venues balcony levels are available to any friends, family, music lovers who wish to attend the event.

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