I am an absolute sucker for Christmas markets. Each year, drawn by the cute little huts, twinkly lights and festive music, I drag my (less enthusiastic) other half along to one of the UK's growing number of Christmas markets. Nothing gets me in the Christmas spirit quite like browsing the...

The second AIM Independent Music Awards took place last night in London, the culmination of a year's worth of work for myself and the AIM Awards team. And thankfully, by all accounts it was a great night...Twitter has been buzzing all night long with an overwhelming amount of kind tweets...

Since starting to work on the AIM Independent Music Awards a couple of years ago, it hasn't escaped my attention that every time a list of music award nominees is published, a large-scale debate and healthy amount of criticism and cynicism inevitably follows. I suspect this is because of the...

Ivors, Brits, Grammys, Mercurys, Mobos, MITs, DMAs... the list of music industry awards shows really is as long as my arm, and then some. I'll admit, sometimes it seems not a week goes by without another list of nominees being announced and some...