Wow - what another excellent edition of Scottish Alternative Music Awards - the TENTH anniversary!

We like to take this moment to congratulate all the nominated artists, and the 7 winners, Zoe Graham, VanIves, The Vegan Leather, The Snuts, Ok Button, Inferiem, and Steg G.

Creative director, Richy Muirhead said: "This year’s SAMA’s were another huge celebration of Scottish music! It is fantastic to see the public get so involved and participate in the vote to determine the winners, we gathered over 12.5 thousand votes in two days this year which is a new record - it’s great to see so many people engaging with the nominations, streaming the music, and discovering other artists involved. The seven winners are all very exciting artists with exciting futures ahead."

Jamie Houston, Music officer for Creative Scotland: "The SAMAs is providing a really important platform to raise the profile of alternative artists, paving the way in genres such as hip hop, metal and electronic music. The winners of this year’s SAMAs are a fantastic reflection of the quality of alternative music talent here in Scotland, from upcoming acts such as The Vegan Leather to more established artists such as Steg G. We hope the SAMAs will encourage audiences to discover the wide range of artists nominated and explore Scotland’s thriving alternative music scene."

We also like to thank all our partners for this support, hosts, guest presenters, technical team, performing artists and everyone who voted (The public vote reached over 12.5K this year!).

Images by Keep It Creative, Stephen Blythe, and Stuart Westwood.

The awards took place in Glasgow’s east end in Saint Lukes.

Our hosts Jim Gellatly, and Leyla Josephine.

Franky’s Evil Party kicking off proceedings.

SAMA’s are happy to have raised over £350.00 to Scottish music charity Help Musicians Scotland.

Best Acoustic presented by Jonathan Tait of BTO BeCreative, and Dave Pichilingi of Liverpool Sound City.

Vic Galloway joined us to present Best Electronic and Best Newcomer awards!

Best Rock/Alternative: The Snuts. Collected by Janice (Parents of the band) joined by author Chris McQueer, and Brian Smillie of Beezer.

The final award of the night was Best Live Act awarded to The Vegan Leather.

Headline act for 2019 Scottish Alternative Music Awards: The Cosmic Dead. Photo by Stephen M Blythe.

Next Event:

SAMA X Cryptic Collaboration on Friday 1st November - Rev Magnetic, Callum Easter, VAJ.power, SUE ZUKI, Kleft + more. More information and tickets here.

IN PICTURES: 2019 Award Ceremony

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