WAMAwards 2019 Public Voting: Most Popular Venue

Every year, as a part of the annual WAMFest and WAMCon celebrations, the WAMAwards reward and honour the best of West Australia's flourishing music scene. This year, one defined by the international domination of WA-raised musicians like Stella Donnelly and Carla Geneve, the WAMAwards represent something bigger: a chance to recognise those who have helped push WA music not just within the state, but on a larger national scale and then internationally too, whether it be those in-front of the cameras familiar to most, or those working behind-the-scenes to make sure it happens. 

While many of the categories are voted by a collection of industry members, this year sees the return of the WAMAwards public voting, which makes a comeback - presented by Pilerats, mind you - to give the power to the people in a handful of the ceremony's most acclaimed awards. This year, public voting is open for five awards: Most Popular Live Act, Most Popular New Act, Most Popular Venue and the all-new Most Popular Act, a winner-of-winners-type award that'll go to the act chosen to have the greatest contribution to WA Music this year. Public Award voting closes at 11.59PM on Thursday, October 10th.

Here, you can vote for the 2019 WAMAwards' Most Popular Venue category, featuring:

Badlands Bar
Ellington Jazz Club
Freo.Social
Mojo’s Bar
Rosemount Hotel
The Bird
The Duke Of George
The Sewing Room

Vote for the 2019 WAMAwards' Most Popular Venue category HERE.

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TO VOTE IN ALL OF 2019'S WAMAWARDS PUBLIC VOTING FIELDS, HEAD HERE.

This year's nominees: 

Badlands Bar

Badlands is Perth's newest live music venue and late bar. Our undercover festival beer garden is always FREE entry from 7pm to 2am on Friday and Saturday nights and includes a variety of food trucks that cater for all dietary types. The Badlands "Main Room" hosts ticketed gigs for up to 500 people every Friday and Saturday night. Gig details can be found under our Facebook "Events" or at www.badlands.bar - the likes of Karnivool and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are the early bands to have dominated and sold-out the Badlands Main Room. We are open after gigs until 2am with late night tunes, cheap booze and good times. The Hen House Live - brings up and coming Perth bands to life from the rehearsal studio to the stage in Perth's coolest dive bar environment with a cosy 80 capacity room and awesome acoustics. Bands play amongst the crowd to give it a feel like no other venue in Perth and few in the world. Order your drinks through the hole-in-the-wall and get involved!

Ellington Jazz Club

The Ellington Jazz club features the finest touring acts and the cream of Australian Jazz talent in an intimate environment. World class Jazz, warm hospitality- and early sets so you can drop in after work. The Ellington Jazz Club strives to present a wide range of musical styles including jazz and jazz influenced music. We value gender equality, racial diversity and sexual orientation for our performers and patrons, with all being welcome. We strive to present the highest quality music possible in a safe, friendly and inclusive environment for all. The Ellington is a seven night a week jazz club that presents more than 600 shows per year and is recognised as a great place to perform and listen to music…

Freo.Social

Follow our journey as we create Freo's newest historic venue: Freo Social Hall. Situated in the heart of old Freo, the Fremantle Drill Hall has been a hub of local social life for generations. Now as we embark on the historic space’s next incarnation, we are excited to share our journey with you. Here’s to the spirit of Freo; great chat, great beers and great grub.

Mojo’s Bar

Mojos Bar loves live original music seventeen days a week. It loves it local and foreign, hard and soft, new and old, obvious and obscure, friendly and furious... you get the idea.

Rosemount Hotel

The Rosemount Hotel is one of the few live music venues in Western Australia that supports local, national and international acts. The legacy of The Rosemount not only lies within its acts, but its foundation: the venue has a powerful PA system, a highly visible stage and an engaging team of staff…

The Bird

The Bird is a live music venue based in Northbridge that thrives on good vibes. We provide a comfortable home for performers, listeners, dancers, drinkers and conversationalists to do their thing.

The Duke of George

The “Duke of George” is a new live music venue, coming to life in the semi-basement of the heritage listed “Brush Factory” building at the top of George Street in East Fremantle. Its ethos is to provide Quality Live Music in the genre of Blues –crossing the lines to Jazz/ Folk /Soul and more….

The Sewing Room

The Sewing Room is an exciting new Nightclub and Live Music Venue located in the basement of one of Perth’s most beautiful old buildings. Located in Wolf Lane and open from 8pm-5am every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, the venue also caters for touring acts, functions and special events on other nights. From laid back late afternoon drinks and functions to Perth’s best live music and popular club nights, The Sewing Room has a welcoming and inclusive environment and music for everyone.