Gilles Petterson's urban based but rather diverse Worldwide Awards return in 2005 with some great nominations and an action packed awards ceremony planned.
You can vote on the following seven categories by visiting the Radio 1 website, and if you're interested in attending the awards show (details below) each voter will receive an entry into the draw to win tickets.
- Club night of the year
- Label of the year
- Session of the year
- Compilation of the year
- Worldwide track of the year
- Worldwide album of the year
- The John Peel 'Play More Jazz' Award
Some great names across a wide number of genres are among the nominations. The album category alone has Laurent Garnier, Matthew Herbert and Jamie Lidell pitted against Kanye West, MIA, Roisin Murphy among various others. Voting closes on December 1st, so get in there.
Vote - Radio One Gilles Peterson Worldwide Music Awards 2005
The Awards Show
The Radio One Gilles Peterson Worldwide Music Awards event will be hosted at Koko in Camden on Monday December 12th.
On the topic of the event Gilles said:"We have been doing the Worldwide Winners on Radio 1 for a good few years now and it gets a huge response from listeners. Last year we took it to the next level with the first physical event at Cargo with performances from SA RA among others. This year the event comes from the much larger venue KOKO with a killer line-up. I'm delighted that this annual event has become a fixture in the musical calendar. My main aim is to draw attention to the musical scene that is championed every week on 'Worldwide'."
The awards night will play see a performance from the hot Japan's Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, a very special yet unannounced guest as well as 'The Worldwide All-Star Selectors' which is comprised of more than twenty DJs including Jazzanova, Bugz in the Attic, Norman Jay, Patrick Forge, Fabio, Benji B, Skitz, Quantic, Toshio Matsuura, Charlie Dark and a bundle of others each playing their favourite 'Worldwide track of the year'. This will be followed by Gilles Peterson who will spin the winning track as voted for by Radio 1 listeners.
Full Event Details below.
And last but not least, for those of you in the Gilles groove, Petterson is presenting the BBC Sessions's Future Sound of Jazz at the Barbican (in the Barbican Hall) on Sunday (Nov 20). The event will feature Blue Note signing Robert Glasper Trio and the Heritage Orchestra grooving with special guests Chris Bowden, Eska Mtungwazi, Dwight Trible, Jasmine Sullivan and Mozez.