Salisbury Music Awards 2025
Members of the Salisbury music community came together on Saturday for their ‘office party’, to celebrate the diverse and incredible musical talent in our City.
The Salisbury Music Award team, made up of the Thom Belk Community Fund, Salisbury Live, Sounds of Salisbury, The Winchester Gate and Rock The Boat DJs, brought together a fabulous line up of live music and DJ sets to entertain and highlight acts from different genres and styles within the local scene.
Getting the day off to a fabulous start was the return of the Sunday Sessions vinyl DJ sets, with Sixty V, Lucy & John Burns, Rock the Boat DJs and the Sounds of Salisbury pulling together some fantastic tunes from their vinyl collections. The fantastic crowd were then treated to live music on two stages. Elby, Ukulele Vagabond, Tom Ray and 3MO entertained on the acoustic stage which was run by BSM StageTec and SGB Signals, with sets from 5 Nights at Adyans, Break Cover, Held Under and headliners Corridors all providing spectacular sets in the band stage area. And when the live music was finished, there were more DJs sets from Darren Kidd, Stacy Lucas and Sam Mouland of the Salisbury DJ Academy as well as Radio Odstock’s Kev Lawrence.
The Awards, voted for by the public and collated by the team at Wade Digital, were announced over two breaks in the live music schedule, to allow acts and audience to show appreciation and support for winners and nominees.
The Salisbury Music Awards team also paid tribute to Bass Connection, a local initiative that ran through the late 90’s into the 2010s, that would have celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. Bass Connection was a highly influential, long-running youth music project and rehearsal space based at Grosvenor House in Salisbury. Its influence on the Salisbury Music scene is still very much alive thanks to acts like Charmtype, Love is Enough, Acrustic Badger Band and Get Good, who all have members that came through the Bass Connection doors at some stage in their journey. A video of old photos, gig posters and news clippings, provided by Keith Gale and curated by Ellen Morgan-Wardrop of Sounds of Salisbury, played throughout the day in the bar area, as a reminder of how important it is to celebrate our past as well as our present musical accomplishments.
Results:
Lifetime Achievement Award (Sponsored by Wade Digital) :
Kev Lawrence for 25 years at Radio Odstock.
Outstanding Contribution to Music in the Community (Sponsored by Rob Wood) :
Terry Taylor & Simon Dickenson
Best Band (Sponsored by Thom Belk Community Fund) :
5 Nights at Adyans
Best Original Song (Sponsored by Sounds of Salisbury) :
Nia Nicholls for her song ‘If You Were A Song’
Best Live Act (Sponsored by JS Terry Photography) :
Break Cover
Best Solo Act (Sponsored by BSM StageTec) :
Ukulele Vagabond
Break Thru Act (Sponsored by Rose Gale Trust) :
5 Nights at Adyans
Best Covers Act (Sponsored by New Inn Salisbury) :
Break Cover
Best Venue:
Salisbury Arts Centre
Best Vocalist (Sponsored by Underground Studios) :
Lauren Hardy
Best Guitarist (Sponsored by SGB Signals) :
Peter Lamb
Best Bassist (Sponsored by SJ Fitness) :
Nick Gowman & Pete Bartlett
Best Drummer (Sponsored by Huntsman’s Tavern) :
Rob Newman
Best Instrumentalist (Sponsored by Woodslee Landscaping Ltd) :
Andy Brockway
Best DJ (Sponsored by Salisbury DJ Community) :
Disco Dion
