Launched by Get Into This blog editor Peter Guy, the GIT Award has known for casting on Merseyside's ever-bustling music scene.
Returning in 2015, the GIT Award has announced the judges for the latest round up of new music. Lending an ear to the panel this time round, label types such as Heavenly Recordings' Jeff Barrett, Bella Union founder Simon Raymonde and Rich Walker of 4AD will help sift through the entries.
Alongside this, the press world is represented by theQuietus founder John Doran, legendary scribe Simon Price, Chris Torpey, editor of Liverpool's Bido Lito!, Jarri Van der Haugen of Disco Naïveté and Clash's very own Robin Murray (hello!).
Other esteemed members of the panel include Liverpool Music Week's Mike Deane, Xfm's Mike Walsh, Shell Zenner of North West Amazing Radio, EVOL (Liverpool club night) founder Steve Miller, Yaw Owusu, curator of the Liverpool International Music Festival and – naturally – the award's founder, Peter Guy.
Fancy getting your music heard? Bands, artists, producers, soundsmiths and other such creative types can enter by sending four tracks to [email protected].
The full press note is supplied with an inspiring piece from Simon Raymonde, championing Liverpool music. Here's part of the final segment: "it is no exaggeration to say, without wishing to put the curse of 'scene' upon it, the most consistently exciting bands right now ARE from Liverpool. That is an irrefutable fact."
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