The Xfm New Music Award 2011
We have another selection of legendary names lined up to have their say on who should win this year's prize.
It's back! For the 4th consecutive year the Xfm New Music Award will name the Best British Debut Album of the Year.
The previous winners are The Enemy “We’ll Live And Die In These Towns” (2007) and Glasvegas “Glasvegas” (2008) and The xx ‘XX’ (2009).
As with previous years, Xfm listeners will vote for their favourite British debut albums of the year at xfm.co.uk. These votes then create a short list of 10 albums that our panel of judges score and debate at a meeting from which we name the overall winner.
This year’s judging panel includes...
Mike Walsh, chairman (Xfm Head Of Music)
Brett Anderson (Suede)
Andy Ashton (Xfm Programme Director)
Dave Berry (Xfm)
Clint Boon (Xfm)
Tim Burgess (The Charlatans)
Ben Cardew (Music Week)
Peter Hook (Joy Division / New Order)
Dom Howard (Muse)
John Kennedy (Xfm)
John Leckie (legendary producer of Radiohead, Stone Roses, Muse, The Verve etc)
Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol)
David Mogendorff (MTV)
Craig Potter (Elbow)
Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays / Black Grape)
Gordon Smart (The Sun)
Frank Turner
Gary Warren (MD of Content and Talent at MAMA Group)s
...and one Xfm voter, who will be picked at random and invited to take part in the judging process.
Elbow's Craig Potter told Xfm: "We have always appreciated Xfm’s support for Elbow, and new British bands in general, so I am very happy to be invited to be a judge on an award that supports great British debut albums."
Any album is eligible if it is a debut album from a British artist released in 2010 and has received some airplay on Xfm.
Notable UK debut albums from 2010 include Kele, Two Door Cinema Club, Delphic, Carl Barat, Hurts, Everything Everything and Fenech Soler.
The shortlist will be announced in breakfast on Monday January 31.
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