Beck, TV on the Radio, & Imogen Heap performing @ The 2006 Woodies

Nominees for the “Left Field Woodie” are:
* Gogol Bordello – Start Wearing Purple
* Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek
* Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
* Lady Sovereign – Random
* Wolfmother – Woman

You can vote online.

Beck, Imogen Heap, TV on the Radio, and Gym Class Heroes will be among the performers at the 2006 mtvU Woodie Awards at Roseland Ballroom in NYC on October 25th (Premieres on mtvU & mtvU.com November 2nd). Last year I went. Full press release below..

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BECK, IMOGEN HEAP, TV ON THE RADIO AND GYM CLASS HEROES TO PERFORM AT THE 2006 “mtvU WOODIE AWARDS”

Critically Acclaimed College Favorites Take the Stage October 25th at Roseland Ballroom in NYC; Premieres o mtvU & mtvU.com November 2nd, “Woodies” Special on MTV November 4th

Two Players in “Woodies” Camera Phone Scavenger Hunt to Get All-Access Photo Passes to this Year’s Show

New York, NY – October 3, 2006 – mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, today announced performers for the 2006 “mtvU Woodie Awards” – the only awards honoring the music voted best by the college audience. An all-star lineup of established and up-and-coming artists are confirmed to perform at the third annual mtvU “Woodies,” including Beck, Imogen Heap, TV on the Radio and Gym Class Heroes. The live concert event will take place October 25th at Roseland Ballroom in New York City, with the mtvU on-air and online premiere set for November 2nd at 8pm ET, and mtvU.com simultaneously debuting the entire show on demand. A special half-hour version of the “mtvU Woodie Awards” will premiere on MTV November 4th at 10pm ET, and an encore performance will follow on MTV2 November 5th at 11pm ET. Additional performers and presenters will be announced in the coming weeks.

Performing at the “Woodies” represents a natural culmination for all of this year’s acts, as each has been hoisted up by college students and celebrated on mtvU. Beck is a past “mtvU Woodie Award” nominee and his videos have been mainstays on the channel since it launched. Imogen Heap’s breakout hit “Hide and Seek” debuted on mtvU and mtvU.com in January and has been one of the most streamed songs on the site this year. mtvU has been behind TV on the Radio since the band’s early days, when “Staring at the Sun,” from their first EP, was placed in heavy rotation on the channel given heavy college student demand. More recently, mtvU featured a behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Wolf Like Me,” the lead video from the group’s critically acclaimed release, “Return to Cookie Mountain.”

Gym Class Heroes have been one of the biggest success stories on mtvU this year. In February, the Pete Wentz-signed five piece hip hop band was selected for the inaugural mtvU “Freshmen Five,” which each semester names the five acts poised to ride college student support to mainstream success. The group has since been featured on several mtvU new music series, including “Backstage Pass” and “Dean’s List,” and holds the record for the biggest music video premiere to date on mtvU.com.

Additionally, mtvU today announced the launch of the Snagu mtvU “Woodies” party, which will offer two lucky camera phone photographers an unforgettable “Woodies” experience. Snagu is a camera phone-based scavenger hunt developed by students from NYU with the backing of a $25,000 mtvU and Cisco Systems “Digital Incubator” grant. In the game, players receive a text message with a “tag,” scramble to shoot the best image and send it into a community site where college students vote for their favorites. For the Snagu mtvU “Woodies” party, college students will snap “Woodies”-related shots between today and October16th, and two of the players will be selected to attend this year’s show. These two will get all-access photo credentials for the 2006 “Woodies,” square off in an all day photo scavenger hunt, and have their photos published on mtvU.com. For more information on how to play, please visit mtvU.com or Snagu.com.

Top nominees for the 2006 “mtvU Woodie Awards” include Arctic Monkeys and Imogen Heap, who garnered three nods each and are competing in the “Breaking Woodie” (Best Emerging Artist) and “Streaming Woodie” (Most Streamed) categories. Eleven other artists, including Atmosphere, Gym Class Heroes, Hellogoodbye, Nightmare of You, Plain White T’s, Taking Back Sunday, The Academy Is and The Fray followed with two nominations each. Nearly fifty emerging and influential artists have been nominated for the 2006 “Woodies,” representing the music that college students lived their lives to this year. All college students are encouraged to log on to mtvU.com, make their voices heard, and vote for their favorites – either online or via any of mtvU’s Mobile partners – before the deadline of October 20th.

mtvU will host an online chat with “Woodie”-nominated artists Feist, HelloGoodbye and other nominees on Tuesday, October 10th at 3pm ET / noon PT. All interested journalists are invited to log onto www.cpnewslink.com five minutes prior to the scheduled start time to participate.

College students have helped establish the “mtvU Woodie Awards” as a crystal ball for the music about to break big, helping their favorite artists “graduate” to MTV2, MTV and mainstream success – including major record sales, sold out tours and accolades at other award shows. Some of the most notable success stories from the past two years include Fall Out Boy, the Killers, Matisyahu and the Afters, all of which saw their careers skyrocket after the “Woodies.”

For full information on the 2006 “mtvU Woodie Awards,” including nominees, programming, online games, ways to win a trip to this year’s show, exclusive interviews with nominated artists and music videos from all of this year’s nominees, please visit mtvU.com.

The third-annual “mtvU Woodie Awards” is sponsored by Citicards, Ford College Student Purchase Program, Taco Bell, Sony PSP, Garnier Fructis and T-Mobile.

About mtvU
Broadcasting to 750 colleges across the country, with a combined enrollment of over seven million, mtvU is the largest, most comprehensive television network just for college students. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, mtvU can be seen in the dining areas, fitness centers, student lounges and dorm rooms of campuses throughout the U.S. mtvU is dedicated to every aspect of college life, reaching students everywhere they are, through a three pronged approach – on-air, online and on campus. mtvU focuses on content including music videos from emerging artists which can’t be seen anywhere else, news, student life features, events and pro-social initiatives. mtvU is always on campus, with more than 300 events per year, including exclusive concerts, giveaways, shooting mtvU series and more. For more information about mtvU, and for a complete programming schedule, visit www.mtvU.com.

mtvU.com makes mtvU the first MTV Networks channel distributed in its entirety via broadband, streaming 24/7 and on demand, featuring all of mtvU plus exclusive new music, original series and student-produced programming for college students and music fans everywhere.

mtvU also owns and operates Y2M, parent company of College Publisher – the largest interactive network of online college newspapers in the US. The network comprises over 450 campus publications that serve institutions including Brown University, the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and Duke University, with a combined enrollment of nearly five million students and a subscriber base of 2.1 million.

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Previously
The 2005 MTVu Awards | Results | pics
Matisyahu/Saul Williams (duet) @ MTVu Awards, NYC …
The Go! Team @ Roseland, NYC | MTVu Awards | pics