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Welcome all to everyone's favourite guitar-based song contest which seems to have accidentally turned into just an annual affair (not helped by me originally planning to host this in October but ending up delaying it a few times for various reasons). It's time for the thirteenth edition of Nuggets, hosted by yours truly following my stunning last minute victory back in May 2020 with 'Fall In Love' by Moaning (finally ending the curiosity of the Pop Forum Song Contest being the only genre forum song contest that I had won).



What is Nuggets you may ask (if you didn't participate in any of the previous twelve contests)? Well, it is one of BuzzJack's numerous song contests loosely based on the format of Eurovision, where we all gather together to share an unknown song we found digging through the treasure troves of the Internet and then vote for our favourites from everyone else's submissions to determine a single supreme winner.

Ah but there are a few restrictions on the songs that you can send. First and most importantly, the major gimmick that makes this a different contest to Unknown Pleasures, your entry must be a guitar-based song. You're not restricted on genre, year or (as some will no doubt take advantage of) song length as long as we get some of those sweet riffs.

Some other guidelines (as I will have to run any entries I receive past the approval of our overlords SevenSeize and WhoOdyssey who have veto power over anything deemed inappropriate for the contest):

1) don't send anything that has appeared in the UK chart (definitely not the singles chart and preferably not the albums chart either) - this is a music discovery contest, we want songs here that are as obscure as possible (or at least likely to be new to a majority if not all other participants)
2) you can't send a song that's appeared in a previous edition of Nuggets (there's a list of songs from Nuggets 1-11 here and the Nuggets 12 song list is here), and it's probably also best to avoid anything that's previously appeared in our other esteemed song contests BJSC and Unknown Pleasures (lists of songs that have appeared in those can be found here and here, although I think the latter is a little out of date)
3) artists are first come first serve - if you confirm a song or artist that someone else has already sent I'll contact you asking for a replacement
4) this contest is anonymous so don't go leaking to other people what your song is - all will be revealed in the results thread

With all that spiel out of the way let the Nuggets commence! To confirm your participation just drop a PM to me with the name of your song and a link for it (preferably from YouTube or SoundCloud, I trust someone will helpfully create a Spotify playlist separately x).

You all have about week to submit your song so setting the deadline for 23:59 GMT on Wednesday 10th February, 2021 (that's not going to be a super strict deadline, I'll accept slightly late entries but I will be hopefully putting up the voting thread on the evening of Thursday 11th if our indie mod overlords give me the green light to). After that there'll be a period of a little under 2 weeks to vote (I am planning to do the results on Thursday 25th February).

Confirm away! This contest is open to anyone who wants to participate whether it's your first time (in fact I strongly encourage first time participants) or your 13th (which I think is only me and Iz).

Confirmed participants so far (29):
Addy!
Ansel
awardinary
blacksquare
Bré
Brett-Butler
Chez Wombat
Cody
dhwe
FrankLuck
Ghosty.
Harry
Iz
Jacob
Jade
JSG
Juan Carlos
Jupiter
Kath
King Rollo
Leww
PeteFromLeeds
RabbitFurCoat
Riser
SevenSeize
Severin
Suedehead2
uhsting
WhoOdyssey