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SAMA nominated ABoF artists!

SAMA (Scottish Alternative Music Awards) has just released this year’s list of nominations and looking at the list it's not hard to see how many brilliant Scottish bands there are on the scene. In its fourth year, SAMA draws attention to the Scottish bands and artists that the mainstream tends to ignore and looks away from major acts like Frightened Rabbit and Biffy Clyro.

The SAMA shortlist just demonstrates how varied and colourful the choices can be, where nominations are chosen by leading figure heads in the Scottish music industry and the final winner is decided by a 10 day public vote. This year see’s three A Badge Of Friendship bands reach the shortlist and three in strong contention of success. So lets take a look at them now...

Fat Goth

Fat Goth released their second album Stud on January 28th. The Dundonian three-piece have gained support and praise from Kerrang! Magazine, Rock Sound Magazine, Q, Terrorizer Magazine, BBC.co.uk, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1 Scotland and many more. 2013 sees them nominated in the Best Rock / Alternative category. A tour is currently in the works for April and May and with Fat Goth riding on the success of their latest album and this SAMA nomination, their shows could turn out to be rather unmissable.

Vigo Thieves

Formed in Wishaw in 2008, Vigo Thieves have been nominated in this years Best Live Act category. With appearances last year at T in the Park where a huge crowd swarmed the BBC Introducing stage to witness the four-piece, video releases that are easily reaching over 30,000 views on YouTube almost every time, their most recent success is being the first unsigned band to sell out King Tut's in Glasgow, two nights in a row back to back. With this in mind it’s not hard to see why they've earned this most deserved nomination.

Cara Mitchell

Cara Mitchell has been nominated in the Best Acoustic category. This sixteen year old songstress has already enchanted listeners with her debut EP, Have You Ever Wondered, which was released via AGP last year and although only debuting live in October 2011 this nomination proves that Cara is someone to cast an eye on over the coming year. A firm one to watch.



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