Hope Award Updates: Red, White & Black...

We’re excited, aren’t you? Seriously! We’ve always wanted to have our own award show and finally we’re doing one to commemorate the efforts of emcees and performers in the scene. And to think about it, we’ve had a pretty good year. Maybe some of you might not agree to that, but we at 65 & Hope love what we do, and we will still do this for the years to come. Here are the details to our next event, 1st Hope Awards!

1st Hope Awards
Date/Day : 14th June, Saturday
Time: Doors open at 2.30pm
Venue: Chamber, The Arts House
Admission: $5 only
Dress code: Only white, red and/or black attire. :)

Voting through email is extended until tomorrow, Friday 13th June, 6pm, so do send in your votes as soon as possible. Once again, the winners for the awards are based on 50% poll votes, 30% email votes and 20% votes by panel of judges. Who are our panel of judges?

The Fixx – Founded by Mr Chan, The Fixx is an online zine where you can find information on music, events, interviews with local artiste, reviews and also fashion in Singapore. If you have events, singles or even albums, do share it with them. We seriously miss the good old days of online zine, but now we know the problem is ‘fixx’. Haha! *That’s so corny* Anyway, do show some love to their website, www.thefixx.sg. On a side note, Mr Chan is nominated for 3 Hope Awards; Favourite Solo act, Favourite Performance and Favourite Hip-hop album. Vote vote!

Bedsty Music – Whussgood! That’s what we always hear from the main man, Syaheed. Bedsty Music has not only ventured on music production but in 2007 they brought Magnolius Destroj Tour to Singapore and this year they brought Leo37 to our event, Protégé. We can’t thank them enough. And we hope to work more with them soon. In the meantime, do check out their website www.bedstymusic.com. In case you don’t know, Syaheed is one of the main man behind the 1Asia compilation (www.1asiahiphop.com) which is also nominated for Favourite Hip-hop Album! Vote vote!

Showstar .Inc – Our resident DJ and his lady boss, Nurul, are one of our favourite loyal supporters at our shows. We just love reading their reviews. They’ve also been covering other shows like Home Club Saturday D&B showcase and a few more here and there. If you do events, do invite them. If you have singles or albums, do share with them. You can get them all reviewed! Do visit their site http://showstarsdotinc.blogspot.com and don’t forget to give a shout-out at their tag-board.

Resurgence – when we say we miss the good old days of online zine, we meant them. We seriously miss Resurgence! But not to worry, our favourite editor from the team, Hafiz aka Psylence, will be part of our review team and soon you will see more reviews on the latest hip-hop albums. Special thanks to Universal for the CDs of course. We will also put up an online contest for readers to win those CDs. Next week, you’ll probably see Lil Wayne, Ashanti and NERD’s latest album being reviewed. In fact, we would also review anything we hear or see in the scene. Do hit back our review page real soon!

And if you don’t remember the nominees, here’s the list again...

Favourite New Artiste
- Feekee’D
- Jidda
- Irfn.xs
- Kwizyne
- Chavito

Favourite Solo Act
- Mr Chan
- Bless
- Pendekar
- Richard J
- Chaz Ali

Favourite Duo/Group
- Will’s Invasion
- Xstatix
- Public Eyez
- The Cartelz
- Rebel Yell

Favourite Song by Solo Act
- Roll Like That – Akeem
- My Witch – Richard J
- Fymps – Freaky Z
- Falsafah Pendekar
- Grace Bless

Favourite Song by Duo/Group
- Play with Fire – Public Eyez ft Decepticon, Akeem
- Put Your Flags On – Jin ft Akeem, Alyph
- Teardrop – Xstatix
- Make Em Bow – Richard J ft Syaheed
- Kasih Mengapa – Rauzan ft Roze, Urban Sensation

Favourite Performance
- Pendekar @ Family Affair
- GOD @ Protege
- Mr Chan @ Protege
- The Cartelz @ Protege
- XS.1 @ 65Hope

Favourite Live/Acoustic Performance
- Bless @ Family Affair
- Acid Empire @ Speakeasy
- Freaky Z @ Release The Fymps
- The Cartelz @ Protege
- Rauzan @ Family Affair

Favourite Overseas Artiste
- Magnolius @ Destroj Tour
- Leo37 @ Protege
- Altimet @ Platform 7
- Dose Two @ Family Affair II
- The Rogue Squadron @ Family Affair II

Favourite Hip-hop Album
- Fymps – Freaky Z
- School of X’scape Artiste – XS.1 the Regiment
- Last Man Standing – Mr Chan
- 1ASIA Compilation – Various Artiste / Syaheed (SG)
- Voice From Beneath – Various Artiste / Divine Aura

Do vote for your favourites! Email them to 65hope@gmail.com. We can’t wait for Saturday! Peace! :D