Yes yes yes people! Hold on to your glowsticks,
keep your feet still for two seconds and
listen up! Voting for the biggest hard dance
party of the year is now officially underway
and you can be a part of it!
By now you all know that we’re taking
over the BRIXTON ACADEMY
for the ultimate celebration of the hard
dance scene, to be filmed on the night by
MTV. You’ve put a
big red ring around FEBRUARY 24th
2007 and you’re already locked
in fierce debate on the message boards as
to who should get what award. Now here’s
even more information to get in a state
about…
VOTE HARD! Click through
to www.harddanceawards.com
and get a load of our fabulous new site.
With Top 10s for the year from the scene’s
biggest artists, interviews with some of
hard dance’s brightest stars and all
you need to know about voting in the Awards,
it’s our brand spanking new home and
we’re very proud of it.
Voting is free to do and all categories
are open except the Lifetime Achievement
Award (see below). You can vote for anyone
and have your say in who’s doing it
right!
This year we have added two new categories;
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD and
BEST INTERNATIONAL EVENT.
The shortlist for the LFA has been voted
for by the Hard Dance Awards committee and
represents a selection of hard dance heroes
without whom the scene would be a different
place today. Plus we’ve introduced
the Best International Event category to
cope with the thousands of fans voting from
around the world. We want to see who the
biggest force outside the UK is!
PLAY HARD! The line-up
for the ceremony is so stellar NASA have
been in touch about giving it a formal classification.
We’ve got a list of DJs that any promoter
would cut their left leg, right arm and
possibly both ears off to get hold of in
one go. LISA LASHES, TIDY BOYS,
ED REAL, ANDY FARLEY, BK, ANNE SAVAGE, ROB
TISSERA, EDISON FACTOR LIVE, K90 LIVE
… want us to go on? Okay then: AMBER
D, ANDY WHITBY, KEVIN ENERGY, ORGAN DONORS,
ALEX KIDD, JASON CORTEZ & PHIL YORK,
PROTEUS, VINYLGROOVER, MARK EG
and many more over four rooms of music!
Event organiser and the man behind the
whole show, ED REAL is
your host with the most alongside a mouth
watering selection of industry characters
lending a helping hand. In a change from
previous years, the ceremony itself will
be split up into three 15 minutes sections.
LISA LASHES & ANDY
FARLEY, ANNE SAVAGE
and ROB TISSERA, and the
TIDY BOYS will each have
a quarter of an hour to present a clutch
of these highly sought after awards in between
some stunning live acts and DJ sets.
GET TICKETS To celebrate
the official launch of voting in the Hard
Dance Awards 2006 we’re releasing
an extremely limited number of EARLY
BIRD TICKETS. For only £18
you could be having it large with 4,499
other mental clubbers and all your favourite
DJs. Putting it into context, that’s
three and a half packets of cigarettes,
36 packets of Max Flavour Paprika crisps
or 21 Pot Noodles. To be precise. Want one
(a ticket we mean)? Then just log on to
www.ticketweb.co.uk
and get yours before they all vanish in
to thin air and the price goes up!
SPONSORS & MEDIA PARTNERS
MTV will be filming inside the venue while
M8 Magazine (get your copy
now!) will be covering the run up to the
event and reporting from the party itself.
FACEPARTY, the world’s
biggest party, will be joining us in all
their glory to present the FACEPARTY
AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL EVENT,
which you can vote for in the coming weeks
at www.faceparty.com.
PIONEER are giving us
a brand new Pioneer CDJ1000 worth £800
to give away to one lucky voter who has
their say on www.harddanceawards.com
TRACKITDOWN.NET is administering the voting
process for the fourth year running. With
over 3,500 dance labels supplying 100,00
tracks, www.trackitdown.net
is the home of digital dance music online.
