It gets tough to keep track of all the awards. You have awards from DJ Times, DJ Mag, hip-hop awards, video music awards, music video awards, not to mention smaller, niche awards like the "Grammys."
Here's one more. This time with a little UK flavor.
The Hard Dance Awards have just opened up voting, with the results to be announced on February 24th. (So hurry. Um…time's running out.)
From charmingly CAPS-LOCKED and EXCLAMATION-POINTED!!!! press release:
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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.