Judging day for MPG Awards 2016

The cream of UK record production was well represented at the judging day for the MPG Awards 2016 on December 7th. Many thanks to the staff at Air Edel Studios in London for hosting the event and looking after everyone.

During a full day of listening to music submitted by the shortlisted nominees and/or their representatives, the discussion was lively and stimulating. Votes for the nominees in each category was cast by secret ballot, but only after intense discussion of the merits of all those nominated, and also the whole process.

The MPG Awards committee has always maintained that the various procedures involved in and leading up to the presentation of the awards should always be subject to the greatest scrutiny and open to improvement whenever necessary. It was valuable to hear all of the options from the room. One of the topics concerned the very nature of record production, and in particular, the question of whether or not an artist producing their own material is somehow different from a producer working on other artists’ work.

The judges taking part at Air Edel included:

Dave Bascombe	Sam Inglis	John Dent	Gil Norton	Cam Blackwood
Jake Gosling	Paul Epworth	Ken Nelson	Steve Levine	Andrew Hunt
Richard Lightman	Helienne Lindvall	Mick Glossop	Tony Platt	Paul Hitchman
Andy Bradfield	Barry Grint	Cenzo Townshend	John Leckie	Richard Jones
Flood	Josh & Tom from Jungle	Will Gregory (Goldfrapp)	Charlie Andrew	Andy Gill
Tom Dalgety	Alex ‘Cores’ Hayes	Dan Cox	Geoff Pesche	Robbie Nelson
Haydn Bendall	Ed Horrox	Tara Richardson	Adam Sherwin