The Boileroom in Guildford won the Grassroots Venue: Spirit of the Scene award at last night’s Music Week Awards 2018.
The venue was up against the 100 Club (London), Broadcast (Glasgow), Club Ifor Bach (Cardiff), The Joiners (Southampton), Rescue Rooms (Nottingham) and Trades Club (Hebden Bridge) – but the Boileroom team invited all of the nominees up on stage with them when they collected the award.
The award win comes in the same week trade body UK Music urges the Government to implement Agent of Change into planning law to save the live music scene.
Nath Brudenell, owner of the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds, which won the accolade in 2017, tweeted: “Proud to see they included everyone nominated and made sure they all went up. It’s collective achievement…setting quality standards.”
BIG YEAH to Guildford’s @boileroom who received the @MusicWeek Grassroots Venue: Spirit Of The Scene award tonight!
Proud to see they included everyone nominated and made sure they all went up
Its collective achievement… setting quality standards!@musicvenuetrust #musicweek
— Nath Brudenell (@Nath_Brudenell) April 26, 2018
Check out some of the other tweets from the night.
Well done to @Domczopor & @BOILEROOM 👏🏽 – Dom pointed out that so many people working in the music industry got their break working in music venues. https://t.co/NRphnC9Z3V
— Women in Music (@WIMNotts) April 27, 2018
Huge congratulations to @BOILEROOM on this one! Such community feel & spirit keeping grass roots music alive! Well done to @Domczopor et al https://t.co/rUiZDQiLUN
— Lauren Roberts (@Robauren) April 27, 2018
I used to go to the @BOILEROOM in Guildford loads as a teenager to see my friends play. Such an awesome venue that's very worthy of a @MusicWeek award, congrats! https://t.co/lvi7Ajg1S4
— Gina Godfrey (@GinaGodfrey9) April 27, 2018
See the full list of winners here.
